Abstract
The article deals with the important topic of reconstruction of existing school buildings. School plays an important role in the life of every person, and the creation of a comfortable educational space is an important task for architects and designers. The main problems considered in the article are the shortage of pupil places in schools, as well as the discrepancy between the architectural and planning structure of schools and the requirements of modern education. In the introduction the questions related to the infrastructure of the school building are considered, that in the existing today schools it is difficult to organize the educational process that will meet the requirements of modern education. The main issues of reconstruction were studied: such as elimination of physical deterioration of the building, the impact of reconstruction on the change of the educational process. In the main part of the article a plan of reconstruction of a typical school building is proposed. The developed steps will help to create comfortable conditions for learning in existing schools, as well as to adapt the space of schools to the requirements of modern educational programs. In the context of state programs considered in the paper, the measures taken by the state to solve the existing problems are presented. State programs provide for the construction of new school buildings based on public-private partnership, but do not exclude the possibility of reconstruction of the existing stock. The conclusion describes the main conclusions of the conducted research, which suggest that the reconstruction of school buildings can be one of the possible steps to solve two major problems. The authors believe that changing the internal space of existing schools can contribute to the development of motivation among students, improve the level of education, and develop various abilities of students.