Since 2017 the team of CAN Architects researches, educates, designs and builds. The common passion of the founders, András Cseh, József Élő, Szilárd Köninger, Dávid Németh and Ádám Tátrai, is to discover, shape and experience the relationship between community and architecture. Independent of scale and function, they look for new opportunities and responsibilities in architecture, developing their own methods in the fields of architectural and participatory design (Story Design), social architecture and education (CAN EDU, Basalt School). The development of learning spaces and methodologies, and the renewal of school architecture on 21st-century pedagogical, environmental-psychological and social foundations play a prominent role in their work.

Through 21st century learning clusters the Elementary School of Szentpéterfa initiates a new model of school architecture in Hungary. Based on a decade of multidisciplinary school design research, it introduces innovative learning spaces, as the Alcoved Classroom and the Turning Classroom and pedagogical methods, as project-based education and outdoor learning. Its participatory design process involved students, teachers and decision makers to integrate all user needs into a personally tailored learning landscape. The old school building on the site that accommodated half of the students here was transformed into a lower school cluster. The Alcoved Classrooms were supplemented with a soft alcove, raised to seat height: a space for reading stories, moving, retreating within the class, even to study lying down, so the teacher gets the opportunity to change positions and move around with the children in the classroom. A storage ensures that the many necessary teaching aids do not cause visual overload in the classroom. The cluster is organized by a spacious learning landscape for meeting and movement, with a huge blackboard in the center, inviting children to experience creativity and shape their environment every day. The upper school cluster speaks its own language of space and form as anew building. The Turning Classroom is the most radical innovation of the plan: the geometry was developed based on pedagogic, environmental psychology, school architecture, acoustics and lighting research to serve the various pedagogical needs of students aged 10-14 years. Turning towards the different sides of the room provides a different perception of space to be used in different pedagogical situations, e. g.: team-work, class debate and frontal presentation. The learning landscape connecting the classrooms includes a staircase-auditorium (named Gengülő/Ganginger by the students), the dining room, a ping-pong and a yoga terrace, while the science room can also be opened up towards it in case of events for the whole school community. As the modern equivalent of the porch rooted in Hungarian rural architectural traditions, the learning clusters are connected by a red canopy, which also functions as an outdoor classroom. The function is divided into masses to keep the scale of the school proportional to its built environment. The organic connection with the settlement is provided by the garden, playground and sports park open to everyone outside of school hours.