Green design, sustainable design, vertical gardens, school design, Stockholm, Sweden, 3XN Architects, 3XN, greenhouse

As they state in 3XN Architects, Green School Stockholm, Sweden, is a new type of school with a modern approach to sustainable living. By actively educating about locally grown food, and by creating a multitude of green exterior public spaces, the building encompasses a full lifetime of sustainable living: from kindergarten to high school, college dorms to senior apartments.

The building is formed by two adjoining arcs – the green school and accompanying greenhouse constitute the public arc and allow for internal and external circulation through the building with the vegetation growing all around. Nine levels of housing for students and seniors twist, slide and shift to create wide private terraces and maximum daylight exposure.

Wide atriums open up the green school to accommodate spontaneous learning. This green pathway through the school culminates with a large greenhouse as the focal point. The greenhouse encompasses three enclosed levels for maximum productive growing and extends upwards with hanging gardens and vertical farming alongside the student and senior residences.

The inside public area houses an organic food store, where the organically grown vegetables from the greenhouse are sold. The Green School’s kindergarten is located directly adjacent to a birch grove. Here, the children get their own safe oasis. With the green terraces outside the building, allowing pedestrians to ascend and move from the lower northern side of the site up and across the street to the higher southern side, the building becomes a productive extension of the planned green corridor for the area as well as an avenue for the public.

Green design, sustainable design, vertical gardens, school design, Stockholm, Sweden, 3XN Architects, 3XN, greenhouse

Green design, sustainable design, vertical gardens, school design, Stockholm, Sweden, 3XN Architects, 3XN, greenhouse

Green design, sustainable design, vertical gardens, school design, Stockholm, Sweden, 3XN Architects, 3XN, greenhouse

Green design, sustainable design, vertical gardens, school design, Stockholm, Sweden, 3XN Architects, 3XN, greenhouse

Green design, sustainable design, vertical gardens, school design, Stockholm, Sweden, 3XN Architects, 3XN, greenhouse

 

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