Architectural style of professional development centers in Rostov-on-Don

This article analyzes the Russian and foreign experience of designing training centers, examines the architecture of professional development centers, describes and compares three architectural models. The research is determined by the following factors: the rapid development of technologies leading to obsolescence and disappearance of some of professions; need for adaptation to rapidly changing working conditions and constant improvement of professional skills; increase in unemployment due to economic decline in the world and the COVID-19 pandemic which contribute to the search for new, in-demand professions.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the formative factors: town-planning, architectural- planning, functional, psychological and pedagogical, etc., which influence the architecture of professional development centers, their classification according to the organizational structure, capacity, functionality according to the degree of accessibility. The concept of open training center is proposed, which carries out both professional retraining and educates everyone with- out age restrictions, with any level of education.

Teaching of the adult students is considered, the use of VR technologies along with the traditional technical teaching aids. Architectural models of education centers are proposed: high, medium, and highly specialized capacity, comparative analysis which gives a choice of the most effective model for Rostov-on-Don.

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