(Photograph by tqtq Studio)
In recent years, around Goil Elementary School a big apartment complex has been built. In order to accommodate the sudden increase in the number of students, Goil Elementary school has to extend the building by connecting the hallway horizontally. For this reason, Goil has become a school full of boring hallways. This project started making fun and exciting a hallway, not just a passway. The goal of the hallway is ‘pass safety’ so it is difficult to install some furniture or acting program because the safety problems of elementary students always act unpredictably.
1. Way Finding
‘Way Finding’ concept is not only applied street. Goil elementary school’s hallways are totally the same, everyone confused about where one is oneself stand. We distribute each floor to a different color to help to find the way easily. The second floor is green, the third floor is yellow, and the fourth floor is blue.
2. Gallery Wall
Because of a safety problem, we cannot place an acting program but create a gallery. We wanted to make it a place to stay, not just pass through the boring hallway that comes and goes several times a day. On each floor, there is a gallery and wall bench where every student appreciates art and play. All gallery concept is a different theme to match each floor color also there are honeycomb pattern bench and square-shaped bench with different heights.
The school's hallway culture is no different from the street culture. I hope that children will get out of the monotonous hallway, monotonous thoughts, and uniform school life. I hope their hallway culture will be like that, just as they see various things, meet various people, and receive abundant thoughts and positive stimuli when walking on the streets.