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Exhibition “School as a Place of Life – Architecture Meets Education” at the AIT Architecture Salon

The exhibition “School as a Place of Life” at the AIT Architecture Salon in Hamburg brings together outstanding school building projects from Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The focus is on innovative spatial concepts that integrate pedagogy and architecture.

Trapez is represented with the Römerstadtschule in Frankfurt and the new building for the Bünningstedt elementary school. Both projects demonstrate how educational models can be translated into spatial structures: cluster-like learning environments and learning halls instead of corridors, communal centers instead of isolated classrooms, diverse zones for interaction and retreat.

The exhibition explores open learning landscapes, cluster models, and schools without traditional classrooms – while also highlighting the added value of participatory planning processes. Many of the projects on display, including ours, are based on the early involvement of their users.

As co-curator, Dirk Landwehr contributes Trapez's extensive expierence in educational design andPphase Zero processes to the curational direction of the exhibition. Alongside it, selected experts will take part in a symposium discussing sustainable school construction, participation, and the translation of educational concepts into built space.

The vernissage will take place on Thursday, March 19, 2026 and will run until May 29, 2026