A public school for 6-17 year olds based on Danish Folkeskole pedagogy, prioritising studio-based, communal learning and civic engagement. Climate literacy is embedded in the curriculum and pedagogy. Students learn about climate through inhabitation, interaction, and the seasonal changes of the building itself, while visible environmental systems make climate action tangible to the wider public, reduce rising costs of energy through redistribution of services.
The project addresses the disconnect between climate awareness and meaningful everyday engagement. Many students understand climate issues intellectually but rarely experience them as tangible, participatory, or social. By allowing students to interact with environmental systems, inhabit adaptive spaces, and observe seasonal shifts, the school fosters agency and counters climate fatalism.
A network of multiple courtyards creates seasonal microclimates and extends into balcony like spaces, blurring inside and outside while supporting studio-based learning. Students directly influence and engage with these spaces, experiencing climate change as a lived phenomenon. A public facing civic spine exposes energy, water, and ventilation systems to the city, reinforcing the tangibility of environmental action. Civic engagement spaces are integrated into this spine, allowing learning and climate awareness to spill into the wider public realm.
Architecture 
Samuel Farrington | Architecture
