Ehrman Crest 小学和中学丨美国宾夕法尼亚丨CannonDesign

Ehrman Crest小学和中学项目试图将学习场所当作儿童博物馆来设计。最终的成果是一座全新类型的学校，激活了每一处空间的学习潜力，为学生的教育旅程提供了独一无二的场所。

Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School is a learning space that dares to explore what can happen when learning spaces are designed more like children’s museums. The result is an entirely new type of school, one that activates learning everywhere and gives students unparalleled agency to curate their educational journey.

▼项目概览，Overall view

项目伊始，Seneca Valley校区的设计者便开始了将学校空间设计为儿童博物馆的尝试，探索PK12的环境是否能使学习空间变得更引人注目、与学生的联系更加密切、能够更好的帮助学生获得成功。设计者希望这种对儿童博物馆形式的模拟能够为学生创造更有意义的学习空间和学习体验。为达到此目的，他们清楚的认识到这需要脱离传统的校舍设计，因为传统的校舍是为了常规的学习模式所设计的。

From the genesis of this project, Seneca Valley School District set out to explore if PK12 environments could become more compelling, relevant, engaging and successful if they emulated children’s museums. The hope was this emulation would create a more rewarding and empowered learning experience for students. There was clear recognition this would require a departure from traditional school buildings that are often designed in ways that dictate learning.

▼建筑外观，External view of the building

▼入口处，Entrance

为了探索非传统的教育空间，设计者接收了来自不同地区的想法。最终，他们与匹兹堡儿童博物馆达成了合作，将儿童博物馆的形式融入了学校设计。学校空间能够像儿童博物馆那样使学生感到兴奋么？能对学生规划自己的受教育旅程起到引导作用么？设计者们相信，双方建立的合作关系能够为学生们创造一个更有吸引力、更欢乐、更令人兴奋和更容易成功的校园空间。

To explore a non-traditional school model, we needed to embrace ideas from new places. As a result, we partnered with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to design a school infused with children’s museum principles. Could a school be as exciting to students as a children’s museum? Could it give them agency to map the course of their own educational journey? We believed the partnership would empower us to create a space more compelling, joyful, exciting and successful for students.

▼首层空间，Ground floor space

▼儿童博物馆般的体验，Children’s museum-like experience

通过环境中丰富的图形语言，Ehrman Crest项目重新定义了学习的空间，使每个地方都充满学习的可能性，不论是在教室、走廊、户外空间、小组学习区，还是可以悬挂物品的墙壁。就像孩子们在博物馆中体验的那样，Ehrman Crest校园中同时支持多种学习模式（视觉、听觉和动态的）。这所学校中充满了数字和模拟媒体的体验。学习的过程被置于与成果同等重要的地位。

Ehrman Crest is a building that redefines learning and makes it possible everywhere-in classrooms, yes, but also the school’s corridors, outdoor spaces, group learning areas, along peg walls, via environmental graphics and beyond. As children would experience in a museum, Ehrman Crest simultaneously supports multiple learning modalities (visual, auditory and kinesthetic). The school is infused with both digital and analog media and experiences. The spaces emphasize and celebrate process just as much as product.

▼不同类型的学习场所，Different types of study spaces

这座校园建筑打造了流畅的动线和体验，让学生能够在整个空间中培养批判性思维。学生们可以通过一系列多孔的环境——教室、写作空间、工作区和户外场所开启对学术与物体的探索，他们能通过这些真实且独特的空间进行自主选择。

在Ehrman Crest校园中，学生们通过独立自主和小组体验的方式来学习。每个年级的组成结构都像社区那样，包括教室、协作区和小组学习室。这种结构通过为师生之间创造多功能空间来进行一对一的教学，从而满足学生不同的学术和情感的需求。即使是最年轻的学生（幼儿园学生）也能够根据个人需求接触到学校中的资源，例如他们能够通过房间中的楼层窗户看到户外的活动场景。

The school offers fluid programming and experiences that allow students to develop critical thinking throughout the building. Students embark on academic and physical journeys through a series of porous environments—a room, collaboration space, work-in-progress area or the outdoors—to exercise choice in truly unique ways.

At Ehrman Crest, students learn through individual instruction as well as group experiences. Each grade level is structured in communities including classrooms, a collaborative area and small-group instruction rooms. This format caters to varied academic and emotional needs of students by creating adjacent spaces for teachers and students to engage in one-on-one instruction and for students to work in groups. Even the youngest learners-kindergarteners-have access to these resources with custom features like floor-level windows that allow them to see activity outside their room.

▼空间中的任意场所都能成为学习空间，Any place in the space can become a learning space

建筑其它重要的特点还包括一排排太阳能电池板、能够显示太阳位置的窗户、裸露的墙壁以凸显建筑材料、被强调的地板材料等等，这些特点使学校成为了一个不断发展的空间，并支持所有不同类型的学习。

Other important features include a solar array, a sundial window, exposed walls to highlight building material assemblies, flooring materials to emphasize units of measure, and so much more that turns the school into a seemingly ever-evolving space that supports all different types of learning.

▼首层平面图，ground floor plan

▼较高楼层平面图，plan of upper floor

Project name: Seneca Valley School District, Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School

Architecture Firm: CannonDesign

Completion Year: 2022

Gross Built Area: 198,000 SF

Project location: Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, United States

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Photo credits: Laura Peters

Photographer’s Instagram: Laura Peters (@catstooth)

Additional credits

Lead Architects: CannonDesign

Partner: Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

Client: Seneca Valley School District