dc.description.abstract | Education is the foundation of a nation and school is an institution entrusted with
educating the nation's children. Each country has a different education system but has
the same goal, namely to advance their nation. In Indonesia itself there is a 12 year
compulsory education regulation, starting from 9 years of basic education, followed by
3 years of secondary education.
Since Indonesia was founded many schools have been built for the continuity of
education in Indonesia, over time there have been changes in the existing education
system, but there have been no changes in the existing public school buildings to
accommodate the changes that are occurring in the current era. With the development of
new technology and new types of education such as homeschooling and unschooling.
According to Badan pusat statistik (BPS) there are 130,042 public elementary schools in
Indonesia. A school with a monotonous and unattractive building form, and the building
is only designed as a functional building that is only used for learning, can’t creates a
sense of belonging to its users. With the changing times, we also have to provide a good
education for children because of the declining marriage rate and declining birth rate in
Indonesia, so we have to provide better quality for these children.
Elementary school design is located in the city of Medan. The school is designed to be
able to describe the impression of a school as a place to play and not give a forced
impression, this building also uses green architecture so as to provide comfort for its
users, provide unity between users and nature in the current technological era that is
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