美育课程的价值在教育界逐渐得到认可。新北市立新台中学在倡导以美育为目的的教室空间改造方面走在了前面。
The value of aesthetic education courses is gradually becoming acknowledged in education circles. New Taipei Municipal Xintai Junior High School leads the way in advocating the transformation of classroom spaces for the purposes of aesthetic education.
在考虑到学生使用的教室空间也将成为美学教育的一个方面后，设计团队提出了美学实验室的概念。希望教室能成为学生寻求和探索美学知识的地方，把它变成理性知识和感性想象力之间化学反应的容器。
After deliberating that the classroom spaces used by students would also become an aspect of aesthetics education, the design team came up with the concept of Aesthetic Lab. The hope is that the classroom will become a place for student’s to seek and explore aesthetics knowledge, turning it into a receptacle for the chemical reaction between rational knowledge and perceptual imagination.
改造过程的第一步是使空间成为一张空白的画布。在白色内墙和天花板的包围下，孩子们丰富多样的想象力得以自由驰骋。教室的整个前墙是一块白板，将教师从传统黑板的束缚中解放出来，而后墙则从白色逐渐过渡到镜面，扩大了空间感，同时标志着幻想和现实的过渡。此外，为了给学生一个更完整和纯粹的视觉体验，空间的颜色被严格控制，教室内所有的设施和设备都被渲染成白色。
The first step of the transformation process was making the space a blank canvas. Encompassed by white interior walls and ceilings, children’s rich and diverse imaginations are able to run freely. The entire front wall of the classroom is a whiteboard, freeing teachers from the constraints of traditional blackboards, while the back wall gradually graduates from a white color to a mirrored surface, expanding sense of space while marking the transition between fantasy and reality. Furthermore, in order to give students a more complete and pure visual experience, the colors of the space were strictly controlled, with all of the facilities and equipment inside the classroom rendered white.
留给整个空间流动的唯一颜色是四种原色。
从天花板上流下来的颜色是整个空间的视觉焦点。中央岛将水龙头、插座、存储空间和其他功能整合在教室的中心。集中存储的目的是将空间还给用户，最大限度地扩大使用面积，适应用于满足不同课程要求的学生课桌和折叠椅的移动。例如，空间外观可以自由地重新安排，用于小组创作、讲座和展览。在修改存储空间的过程中，我们也建议教师合作使用存储箱来对教学材料和设备进行分类。
The only colors that were left to flow throughout the space were the four primary colors.
The colors flowing down from the ceiling are the visual focal point of the entire space. The central island integrates water faucets, outlets, storage space, and other functions in the center of the classroom. The purpose of centralized storage is to return the space to the users by maximizing the usage area and accommodating the moving of student desks and folding chairs used for meeting the needs of different course requirements. For example, the space appearance can be rearranged freely for the usages of small group creation, lectures, and exhibitions. During the modification of storage spaces, teachers were also advised to cooperate in using storage boxes to classify teaching materials and equipment.
储存箱的位置可以根据大小和使用频率进行调整，以便更有效地利用教学材料，避免不必要的杂乱。学生还可以将中央岛的存储柜顶部作为桌面，用于项目操作，如编辑项目。此外，它还可以作为学期末展览的项目展示平台，在学生用投影灯取代天花板上的轨道灯来照亮他们的项目时，教室就变成了一个展览空间。希望通过展览中的作品展示，学生能在美学学习中获得新的体验，甚至将其与生活经验联系起来。
The placement of the storage boxes can be adjusted according to size and frequency of use in order to more effectively utilize teaching materials and avoid unnecessary clutter. Students can also use the top of the central island’s storage cupboard as a tabletop for project operations such as editing projects. Additionally, it can be used as a platform for the display of projects at semester-end exhibitions, wherein upon students’ replacing of the ceiling’s rail-mounted lights with projection lights to illuminate their projects, the classroom is transformed into an exhibition space. It is hoped that through the presentation of works in the exhibitions, students can achieve a new level of experience in aesthetics learning, and even connect it with life experiences.
从经验中学习是这个空间的另一个设计策略。
该空间坚持平等平衡、居中和对称的视觉构成技术，并将黄金比例应用于教室内物品的尺寸。在向学生传达无形概念的同时，地板上流动的线条是空间内应用知识的体现。四种颜色勾勒出空间的中轴线和黄金比例，作为课堂上美学探索的教学材料。而由于这个教室已经被灌输了丰富的知识，所以要靠学生来进行发现。
Learning from experience is another one of this space’s design strategies.
The space adheres to the visual composition techniques of equal balance, centering, and symmetry, and applies the golden ratio to the dimensions of the items inside the classroom. While intangible concepts are conveyed to students, the flowing lines on the floor are a manifestation of the knowledge applied within the space. The four colors draw out the central axis of the space and the golden ratio, doubling as teaching materials for aesthetics exploration in the classroom. And since this classroom has already been imbued with rich knowledge, it is up to the students to come in and make discoveries.
“美学实验室 “是一个用理性来叙述美学的教育空间，也是一个创造性情感自由流动的地方，是想象力交融产生的反应的实验室”。
“Aesthetic Lab” is an educational space where rationality is used to narrate aesthetics, as well as a place where creative sensibilities flow freely and a laboratory for the reactions produced by the blending of imaginations.”
建筑师：CloudForm Laboratory
面积：110 m²
年份：2021年
照片：EdiTrio Studio
制造商： Dulux, Shiang Ye
首席建筑师：Yu, Pei-Ting
建筑师：CloudForm Laboratory
城市：台北
国家：中国
Architects: CloudForm Laboratory
Area: 110 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: EdiTrio Studio
Manufacturers: Dulux, Shiang Ye
Lead Architect: Yu, Pei-Ting
Architects:CloudForm Laboratory
City:Taipei
Country:China