Designed by Design in Motion, Ratchut School design reflects the ?Montessori? ideal learning environment, where a learning space should resemble a home more than a typical classroom. Therefore, the learning area is split into multiple small-sized ?rooms?, where all the children could feel more like home when they come to school. The layout of these ?rooms? has been designed to correlate with each of children?s activities.
Photography: Ketsiree Wongwan
The best learning environment for children this age is nature, that why the building layout has been carefully planned to support children?s self-learning and integrated both indoors and outdoors spaces, architecture, and landscape to provide different learning activities. This layout consists of different ?nature? elements, each suitable for different stages of child?s development. The selected natural elements that have been used to create an ideal learning environment for this project include caves, sand, mounds, and trees. Photography: Ketsiree Wongwan
1. The ?cave? concept has been transformed into wooden layers at the entrance. The spaces in between cascaded layers allow the natural light to pass through making them dominant, interesting and creating a gently fresh atmosphere for the kids.

2. ?Sand? is used in the playground around the Toddler Building to facilitate the development of the sense of touch in toddlers.

3. Freeform?Mound? is used in the landscape of the court and surrounding areas, where children coul...