Classrooms

The Bard Media Lab's total cost came in at slightly over US$200,000

Architecture

Rome may not have been built in a day, but this shipping container media lab was

MB Architecture harnessed its extensive experience with shipping container-based projects while designing a new media lab for Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Comprising four recycled containers, the prefabricated building was delivered in two parts and installed in just half a day.

The DigiTruck is a 40-ft (12.2-m) shipping container on a trailer that serves as a solar-powered digital classroom

Architecture

DigiTruck: A solar-powered container classroom for Africa

In remote areas of Africa, there aren't always schools nearby, let alone ones equipped for teaching digital literacy. An alternative is to take digital education to such remote locations. The DigiTruck is a fully equipped solar-powered mobile digital classroom that can do just that.

Aleutia's Solar Classroom in a Box comes flat-packed and can be assembled in two days by local laborers

Architecture

Solar Classroom in a Box provides flat-pack education spaces in Kenya

A project in Kenya is claimed to be the country's largest solar classroom roll-out to date. UK-based computer company Aleutia is building a classroom in each of Kenya’s 47 counties, which will serve over 20,000 primary school children.

Architecture

SEED's net zero modular classroom takes on Living Building Challenge

The SEEDclassroom is designed to be a portable teaching space available at short notice, and yet one which meets its own energy and water needs.

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IdeaPaint turns walls into dry erase boards

IdeaPaint turns whatever surface it's applied to into a dry erase board.

LAVA's relocatable school is a learning space for the future with a sustainable design that incorporates prefabrication, eco-materials and symmetrical repeatable geometry

Architecture

What the schools of the future could look like

The winning ideas for the "Future Proofing Schools" design competition feature classroom concepts with high sustainability and technological innovation.