A Summary of the Spatial Characteristics of Foreign "Open" Education

In the past 20 years, many developed countries and regions have implemented "open" education, and the classroom form has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The core concept of open space in Europe and America is "home", while the core concept of Japan and South Korea is "the combination of class groups and communication space". There are three main trends in the development of modern open teaching space, namely, the cluster combination of open classroom and open space, the linear combination of open classroom and open space, and the large open space. Many teaching spaces are connected with classrooms and communication spaces, and the boundaries between them are blurred to achieve the purpose of opening. At present, the development of modern open architecture in primary and secondary schools in many developed countries in Europe, Japan and South Korea has reached a relatively mature stage, and it has been successfully transformed into a modern interactive open campus. The space is full of humanistic atmosphere, and the psychological orientation of the environment to people is emphasized. To sum up, the open school space in the above countries has the following characteristics:

1. Flexible multifunctional open space. If the school has plenty of land, it will generally reserve a certain area of open space in graphic design for children to play games and carry out group activities in their spare time, and at the same time meet the teaching needs. If the school is short of land, instead of using solid walls to divide classrooms and corridors, several sliding doors that can be flexibly opened are used to divide classrooms and corridors, thus forming a spacious open activity space where students can play games or other teaching activities, which improves the utilization rate of classroom space.

2. Pay attention to students' communication space. Communicative behavior can stimulate students' good competition and innovation ability, actively think about the relationship and significance between individuals and others, and promote the development of their social skills. For example, primary and secondary schools in Japan are basically equipped with large conference rooms, multi-function halls, public courtyards and libraries for students to meet and communicate; Restaurants are also used in ambiguous ways, and also serve as conference halls and exhibition halls. In the design of traffic space, the scale is usually enlarged and flexible tables and chairs are arranged to provide students with temporary public communication places during recess.

3. Space design is interesting and intimate. In addition to functional requirements, indoor facilities also emphasize fun and intimacy. Students should feel at home here and feel the warmth of home.

4. Strong sense of space color. Color is not only a tool to convey information, but also a means to beautify the environment. The indoor color of open teaching space is mainly bright and warm, which plays an important role in cultivating pupils' temperament, stimulating students' interest in learning, broadening students' mood and enlightening students' thinking. The open teaching space has also changed the design convention of the traditional classroom white wall and black blackboard, and adopted other colors, which reduced the indoor color contrast and made students less prone to visual fatigue.