Architectural Design Project of HSE Lyceum Wins Award at Build School 2022
The 6th international exhibition ‘Build School 2022’ has taken place in Moscow. It is a unique event dedicated to various aspects of design and equipment for educational spaces. The exhibition’s main theme—‘an inclusive educational space’—brought together the business programme and the Build School Project competition. The competition winners included a joint team of the HSE Design Lab and the HSE Lyceum, as well as HSE Art and Design School student Ksenia Nuzhdina.
The team of the HSE Design Lab and the HSE Lyceum presented their joint concept of the lyceum building on Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Pereulok, demonstrating a contemporary approach to the design of the educational environment and an understanding of its main functions.
The collaboration of the HSE Design Lab and the HSE Lyceum managed to solve several important tasks at once: considering the features of post-pandemic and media education, creating a comfortable environment for self-study and informal communication between teachers and students, and increasing the recognition of the HSE Lyceum with the help of modern design solutions.
Design of the HSE Lyceum building on Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Pereulok
The joint project of the HSE Design Lab and the HSE Lyceum was highly rated by the jury of the Build School Project competition and received a certificate from the Union of Architects of Russia ‘For an Attentive Conceptual Approach to Creating an Educational Space.’
‘The creation of educational environments today should be based on mutual respect for children and adults, academic independence and responsible choice. The project of the building on Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Pereulok fully corresponds to this concept,’ says Dmitry Fishbein, Director of the HSE Lyceum.
‘This project is another joint work of the HSE Design Lab and the HSE Lyceum,’ says Natalia Logutova, Head of the Lab. ‘In 2018, we jointly developed the concept of the HSE Lyceum building on Solyanka and implemented it the same year. The experience of operating the building on Solyanka helped us in our work on the new building project: we listened to the Lyceum's wishes for the development of the space based on the situation during the pandemic period, thought about the practices of remote and mixed learning, and, of course, took into account the architectural features of the building on Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Pereulok.’
The HSE Lyceum building on Solyanka Ulitsa
In addition to the HSE Design Lab, which works as an internal design bureau of HSE University and implements projects both for the university and for the external market, a student of the HSE Art and Design School was among the winners of the competition. Ksenia Nuzhdina, graduate of the master's programme ‘Environment Design’ in 2022, received a first-class certificate in the special category ‘Best Student Project’ for the design concept of the ‘Belomorochka’ kindergarten.
‘Ksyusha was careful in choosing a topic for her future thesis. It was important for her to link it with helping people, with the social sphere,’ says Yulia Sheremetova, Ksenia's thesis supervisor. ‘Since she proved to be a very talented and hardworking student, Natalia Logutova and I contacted the potential customer of the project—Lyudmila Marder, head of an inclusive kindergarten in Severodvinsk. Ksenia’s project was highly appreciated by the customer.’
‘Before starting the project, I studied about fifty documents and compiled tip charts,’ says Ksenia Nuzhdina. ‘But we needed more, as it’s not enough to build wide passages, ramps and other things to make the space friendly. Speaking with Lyudmila Marder helped me a lot. She carefully filled out the survey I sent her, helped me to learn more about the learning process, the features of children, and even highlighted the standards that needed special attention. I would say that this thorough preparation is the main difficulty in working with such projects.’
Design of the ‘Belomorochka’ kindergarten
‘Designing a kindergarten in Russia is a difficult task. You are limited by many strict rules,’ says Yulia Sheremetova. ‘However, Ksenia stuck to all the regulations and at the same time came up with many bright and interesting solutions focused primarily on the children’s comfort while at the kindergarten; she also created a friendly style for inclusive spaces.’
The HSE Art and Design School adopts a project-based learning approach. This means that each training module, students create completed projects supervised by the curator of their group. This educational system allows students to work with briefs and opens up opportunities for them to implement their projects—each design concept created as part of educational activity can be offered to a real customer.
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