Sustainable Education Campus in Spain: Nature and Architecture for Training

Autor/in	Calvo-Sotelo, Pablo Campos
Titel	Sustainable Education Campus in Spain: Nature and Architecture for Training
Quelle	In: PEB Exchange, (2008), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1609-7548
DOI	10.1787/241310445001
Schlagwörter	Architecture; Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Educational Quality; Learning Processes; Urban Planning; Program Descriptions; Educational Facilities Design; Campuses; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Architektur; Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Learning process; Lernprozess; Stadtplanung; Spanien
Abstract	The quality of education is intimately linked to its architecture. Any urbanistic/architectural project must stem from an in-depth study of the area's characteristics, taken in the broad geographical, climatic, cultural, functional and ideological sense. The site should provide the conceptual energy from which a campus draws life. This requirement of professional rigour is especially critical in the design of "spaces for learning". The learning process cannot be separated from direct contact; modern forms of telecommunication must never seek to replace the close contact and direct exchange between people, the real stimulus for learning. It is this belief which underlies the need to conceive urbanistic/architectural complexes whose chief objective is to promote the human dimension of integral training. This article describes the sustainable education campus project for San Agustin de Guadalix which is based on an innovative concept of urbanism and architecture. The campus design and landscape aim to support training and exemplify sustainability. This design of the sustainable education campus of Madrid deliberately chooses to avoid solutions which owe more to an excessively conclusive or iconic architecture, but rather advocates spaces which, through the energy provided by the beauty of nature, serve the mission of the campus: the all-round education of the human being. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10