Principles and Design Trends of Modern Educational Schools

The article talks about the practice of designing and building modern secondary schools, as well as the need to rethink the material component of this process, a new look at the adoption of space-planning decisions of similar institutions, based on modern urban planning and typological requirements for the organization of educational work, including the existing level of architectural and urban science. The aim of the study is to analyze the principles and recommendations on the architectural and planning formation of secondary schools that correspond to the specifics of the modern educational process. The study examines the formation of architectural-planning and functional solutions for school buildings based on the search for new approaches in design. The analysis of the modern system of the educational process and its requirements in the development of a new spatial organization of the school environment. In addition to this, the existing structure of education in modern schools is considered, which may further affect the design, change the architectural quality and improve school buildings. It explains how the school space can make an educational sense and what it should be for it to become. The article deals with the problem of reforming the modern Russian school architecture, which stopped in its development at the Soviet stage, which includes most of the school buildings of standard construction. As a result, trends in the design of general education spaces were studied and the main problems encountered in the development of new plans in schools were identified and methods for their solutions were proposed. The necessity of introduction of the modular principle of designing schools with a fundamental difference from the standard building is shown. Each specific project may contain individuality both in visual perception and in the layout of the modules, functional meaning, scale.