What does a classroom of the future look like?
- Tim Carter
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
This was the question posed by Haileybury College as we reimagined their Grade II listed Edwardian Form Room Block. It’s not bean bags and floating desks, but instead practical ways of adding flexibility and adaptivity in an era of fast changing technology, to enrich the teaching, while giving identity to the spaces.
Our key interventions included tessellating desks and a ‘Teaching Wall’, while ensuring all spaces benefitted from ample natural daylight. The desks and chairs, while comfortable and practical were intended to be easily formed into groups, rows or bespoke arrangements to suit a subject or allow a teacher’s lesson plan to flourish. The Teaching Wall is a bespoke piece of carpentry which provides flexibility for digital display or written media through sliding panels. This is complemented with significant amounts of storage.
Through the flexibility comes sustainability, allowing the teachers to do what they do best.
