Rosan Bosch | GO! Campus Zottegem

GO! Campus Zottegem

2021, Belgium

Visionary public school in Belgium supports play and flexible learning. The new public school Go! Campus Zottegem in Belgium is designed to offer playful learning landscapes with reference to Belgian culture and nature.

To support 21st century education, the 4,400 sqm public school places the learner at the center, and provides students with more freedom of choice, space, and self-direction. The school encourages movement, interaction across age groups with learning landscapes designed to stimulate children’s innate curiosity and motivate life-long learning. The outdoor landscape connects the school with a playstreet that offers learning everywhere, indoor as well as outdoor.

The design solutions reflect the three landscapes of Belgium, merging culture and nature in the new vibrant environments. The design concept was based on creating a red thread throughout the whole campus area connecting space and play with spatial freedom. With a tube slide connecting floors and organic interior shapes, the design creates an imaginative world for the students at kindergarten, primary and secondary school.

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Learning Spaces

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The learning spaces are organized around the grand plazas that offer a shared and variated learning environment. Curtains provide flexibility to shield off compartments or the possibility to open for a dynamic and buzzing learning community.

Students have different needs in learning situation why the design offers differentiated possibilities. Concentration zones support students’ needs for focused work, while the studios and plazas are designed for collaboration and cocreation. Play is an important catalyst for learning at GO! Campus Zottegem. The school has three levels with four units designed to match the needs in the different age groups. Each unit consist of distinctive and unique design bringing the outdoor life into the learning environments. The units are closely connected and provide multiple options for cross disciplinary work and interaction.

Differentiated learning landscapes

The kindergarten offers the concept of a ‘flower landscape’ with intriguing colors and interior that stimulates the senses. The ‘seaside’ for children in primary school offer interior with clear references to the Belgium coast life. And the ‘forest landscape’ for the older year group in primary school is inspired by the beautiful nature of Belgium.

Large plazas connect the students in secondary school and supports interaction across curriculum. Here students work in groups, receive directions from educators or practice presentation skills. Common for the units is the pedagogy methods that support play, flexibility, and project-based learning to prepare learners for an uncertain future.

The school was created for the public pedagogical organization GO! Onderwijsvan de Vlaamse Gemeenschap in collaboration with Alheembouw, b2ai and Denis Dujardin.

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GO! Campus Zottegem

Differentiated learning landscapes

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