1. room to GROW
Martin Roche Travel Scholarship 2011
Jennifer McKenzie

2. Education Architecture -
Northern Europe
Sweden Finland
Russia
Norway
Estonia
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Denmark
OECD PISA 2009 Rankings http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/dat-
ablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading

3. Why Education Architecture in Finland?

4. Why Education Architecture in Finland?
CHICAGO
Museum of Finnish Architecture

5. Project Approach
- Research
- Make appointments with Finnish schools
Project Documentation
- Photography
- Blog
- Sketches
http://2011martinrochescholarship.tumblr.com/

6. School Systems
Finland United States
S
18
17
upper secondary vocational 16
15 high schoool
14
13
12 middle schoool
11
10
9
8
comprehensive school 7 elementary schoool
pre-school 6 kindergarten
5 pre-school

7. City of Helsinki School Systems
Comprehensive School Upper Secondary School Vocational School
2,398 1,997 5,332 754 609 4,022 2,840
36,898 16,599 7,399
state-owned school
other private school
private contracting school
city contracting school
city school

8. Quick facts - Helsinki Schools
- 14% Swedish Speaking
schools
- Free School Lunch for past
Helsinki
6 decades, since 1948
- No standardized tests, only
1 test at age 18 or 19
Rest of Finland
600,000
• Helsinki city schools Chicago public schools
• 195 schools • 655 schools
• 62,503 students • 408,600 students
• 4,735 teachers • 588 principals
• 24,600 teachers

9. Case Studies - Helsinki Schools

10. Architectural Concepts
room to GROW
o Transparent Teaching
o Learning is Doing
o Spontaneous Collisions

11. Architectural Concepts
room to GROW
o Transparent Teaching
o Learning is Doing
o Spontaneous Collisions

12. Architectural Concepts
room to GROW
o Transparent Teaching
o Learning is Doing
o Spontaneous Collisions

13. Strömberg School
- Pitajanmaki, Helsinki
- Invite Competition 1996,
completed 2000
- Architects SAFA
- Lower School
- Ages 7-11
- 140 students

14. Strömberg School

15. Strömberg School

16. Hiidenkivi School
- Helsinki
- Completed 2004
- Hakli Architects
- Comprehensive School
- Ages 7-16
- 800 students

17. Hiidenkivi School

18. Hiidenkivi School

19. Kirkkojärvi School
- Espoo, Helsinki
- Competition 2009,
completed 2010
- Verstas Architects Ltd.
- Comprehensive School
- Ages 7-16
- 770 students

20. Kirkkojärvi School

21. Kirkkojärvi School

22. Kirkkojärvi School

23. Enter Sipoo School
- Sipoo, Nikkila
- Invited competition 2003,
completed 2007
- K2S Architects Ltd
- Upper secondary &
vocational school
- Ages 15-19
- 350 students

24. Enter Sipoo School

25. Enter Sipoo School

26. Enter Sipoo School

27. room to GROW
o Transparent Teaching
o Learning is Doing
o Spontaneous Collisions

28. room to GROW
Martin Roche Travel Scholarship 2011
Jennifer McKenzie
mckenzie.241@gmail.com
http://2011martinrochescholarship.tumblr.com/
thank you!