Hugh Gatenby — The Connected Class

We look into a class, and see another somewhere else projected onto its walls. Everyone is learning from each other about the carbon cycle, with some helpful graphics appearing too.

Augmented reality can transform what students see in learning environments.

One class is hosted by another. When students look at the walls of their classroom, they see a projection as if they were looking through the corresponding wall of the other classroom.

Break out spaces allow groups smaller than a whole class to join a host school. This benefits learners with particular needs which cannot be catered for in every school.

Exploring the wider school experience in axonometric. The roof is activated; spaces between classrooms are enclosed; thresholds connect inside and outside.

The Hallsville Through School: classrooms and breakout spaces link as chains; negative space in between is for assembling, performing and dining; the school is embedded in a landscape bridging two neighbouring parks.

We look into a class, and see another somewhere else projected onto its walls. Everyone is learning from each other about the carbon cycle, with some helpful graphics appearing too.

In the hall space between classrooms, some primary students are building their own medieval castle, and some of their friends a few hundred miles away have got involved as well.

In a free period, a few Hallsville sixth formers have connected with Beamish coal mine’s education department in County Durham. As they learn about its history, its landscape appears in Newham.