WHAT IS AN OUTDOOR MODULAR CLASSROOM?
It’s an extension to your existing school, but a stand-alone outdoor modular building which has more in common with the landscape and trees surrounding it than the traditional bricks and mortar building which your pupils may usually associate with the school classroom. You may be considering extending your current building or re-modelling an existing space but there are at least 10 REASONS why an outdoor modular classroom is better & more beneficial for your school.
1) It looks great
Let’s cut to the chase here. There are another 9 reasons to go so please don’t judge us for being quite so fickle from the outset but quite simply, many people find the rustic charm of a timber-framed modular building waaaaaay more attractive than a brick building or it’s contemporaries. Practicality doesn’t have to mean a compromise on beautiful aesthetics. With an outdoor modular classroom you have a beautiful piece of modular contemporary architecture, fashioned in the style of a log cabin or woodsmans shed. It’s outdoorsy.
2) You’re, indoors, outdoors!
This requires little explanation, but let’s just say that anyone who doesn’t agree that children spending more time surrounded by nature is both necessary and beneficial is probably so disconnected from the natural world that there is little hope left for them.
3) It’s filled with natural light
Oh, the roof-light dome and the 360 degrees windows (if you so wish) wrapped around the building! That, can’t be achieved with any other type of building. Creativity, imagination and inspiration thrive in a light-filled, inspiring environment.
4) Children learn first hand what can be built and achieved from natural resources.
At last, a building which children can identify with! The natural world which we try so hard to teach them about can actually visibly benefit them – the lightly oiled exposed timbers in the roof and the rough-sawn British cladding wrapping around the exterior, this building has more of the intrinsic qualities of a boat than that of a typical classroom. Your pupils can see the knots and twists within the timber which forms their classroom, and they can relate to the twists and knarls of the trees surrounding them.
5) A celebration of unique shape
Now, who wouldn’t want to learn and teach in a big, round, warm hug all day?! The circular form of one particular timber-framed modular outdoor classroom we know of feels like a big embrace, it’s walls wrap around you in a way that no other building can. This type of construction is only possible due to the advances within timber-framed manufacturing processes.
6) Encouraging a passion for the natural world
Your students are the next generation. We’re living in the Anthropocene period, one of unprecedented devastation of the natural world. This isn’t a plea to sell a product, this is a genuine, visceral, heart-tugging longing and pleading to see children engaged and supported in wooden, natural, low-impact buildings which inspire a connection to each other and the natural world. It feels like we’re running out of time to turn our civilisation around. On a practical level, features such as the green, natural, sedum roofs have a number of environmental benefits as well as encouraging bees and insects.
7) Cost benefits
Have a chat with us about the cost of installing a modular outdoor classroom – we promise you that it’s much, much more affordable than a brick-built extension.
8) Energy Saving
Being a high-energy saving building, utilising a modular circular timber-framed classroom may save your overall energy costs. The circular footprint is the most energy efficient (less exterior surface area than a rectilinear building) and is a heavily insulated eco-building – the requirement for heating
9) Unique space for out of hours events
This building is a wonderful social space. Who wouldn’t want an iconic eco-building for use on fund-raising days, staff events, school awards ceremonies or to lease out to local yoga or adult-education groups?
10) Flexibility, flexibility, flexibility!
Ok, so, it really is the MOST flexible option for a school, this type of modular timber classroom can be installed like a giant piece of flat-pack furniture, in about 10 days! It can be leased and returned after 5-10 years, it can be re-located if you so wish and it can be installed in a remote woodland location and run off a generator.
Really, it’s super-flexible.
And this list is not exhaustive…….!
If you’re considering a modular building for your outdoor classroom you can’t possibly benefit your school more than utilising a contemporary, ecologically friendly and responsibly constructed Roundhouse by Rotunda.
Call us today for your free non-obligation site survey and discover yet another myriad of reasons why a timber modular classroom would benefit your school.
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