This document summarizes Jennifer McKenzie's Martin Roche Travel Scholarship project to study education architecture in Northern Europe, specifically Finland. The project involved researching Finnish school systems, making appointments with schools, documenting visits through photography and sketches, and analyzing architectural concepts like transparent teaching, learning through doing, and spontaneous collisions. Key case studies included the Strömberg, Hiidenkivi, Kirkkojärvi, and Enter Sipoo schools in Finland, which employed these concepts through their designs.

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
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o Transparent Teaching
o Learning is Doing
o Spontaneous Collisions

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

12. Architectural Concepts
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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

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o Transparent Teaching
o Learning is Doing
o Spontaneous Collisions

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