St Mary’s Infant School The design unit: Jeop and Cook Architects Location: the British
The objective of the proposal is to provide St Mary’s with a much needed replacement foundation stage claroom and additional amenities.The new scheme is intended to provide the foundation stage cla with an exciting and engaging learning environment to enhance the children’s school experience at such a vital early stage in their school life. The three main elements of the project will be spread linearly through the building and staggered to create three distinctive sections to the built form and thus creating multiple roof pitches that reflect the form of the main school.The staggering of the main elements will create opportunities for extra light to be drawn in the building through the use of both high and low level windows, reducing the need for artificial lighting whilst creating additional window seating.The staggering of the scheme not only acts to break up the linear ma of the scheme but offers a much improved use of land and maximises the potential for the surrounding playground and gardens.The proposal will involve the demolition of the existing canteen with a foot print of 163m2 and the erection of a new foundation stage claroom and external covered play area with a smaller foot print of 160m2 which includes 110m2 of new internal floor area and 30m2 of external covered decked play area.The new building will provide a 73m2 foundation stage claroom suitable for up to 30 pupils with WC facilities, a disabled WC/washroom and a 18m2 additional teaching space available for use by the whole school.
Paul Chevallier School by Tectoniques The design unit: Tectoniques Location: Lyon, France
Thiswooden nursery and elementary school complex in Lyon by French architects Tectoniques has hilly rooftops carpeted with plants that
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to explore .Tectoniques built the two schools on a sloping site opposite a wooded parkland in the northern city suburb of Rillieux-la-Pape.The two- and three-storey buildings were designed with V-shaped plans.The nursery school frames a garden, while the elementary school wraps around a narrow courtyard.In certain places the plant-covered rooftops appear to emerge from the ground, created a series of slopes and pathways that children are encouraged to investigate.The two schools operate independently, but share some facilities.A communal entrance provides a place for parents to congregate before and after school, and is linked to the village by a pedestrian pathway.Timber cladding covers most of the building\'s interior and exterior, but is interspersed with a few yellow-painted panels on the walls and ceilings.Spacious corridors run between clarooms and feature floor-to-ceiling windows to increase natural light.A vegetable garden grows on the perimeter of the school, plus a new gymnasium will be added to the site next year.
Kindergarten Dandelion Clock Design unit: Ecker construction firm Location: German state of baden-wurttemberg Construction area: 630 square meters
The kindergarten ‘Dandelion Clock’ educates children with physical or developmental handicaps.Four similar modules form the building, three of which contain two clarooms and a therapy room.The units are radially distributed about an atrium, which serves as a traffic zone, an indoor playing field, and a dining hall.This center is naturally lit and ventilated by four roof monitors.Vents in the claroom façade and windows at the top of each monitor draw air through the building, providing cooling during warm days or when the atrium is in use.
prinseegade kindergarten Design unit: COBE + NORD architects + PK3 + grontmij Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
danish practices COBE， NORD architects， landscape architects PK3 and grontmij have collaborated to produce \'prinseegade kindergarten and youth club\' a winning competition proposal for a daycare center in the borough of christianshavn in copenhagen， denmark.the urban population levels are expected to rise by 90，000 individuals by the year 2025， with approximately 33，000 between the ages of 18 and 29 years of age and 22，000 below 18.in need of facilities for this influx， a triangular plot wedged between a block structure of prinseegade and diverse christiana free town will host 618 children and young teens， marking this the largest center of its kind in the country.the priority was to maintain a sense of scale， and keeping the focus on the individual.acclimating to all different types of personalities with clusters of small and diverse buildings grouped around two central streets that connect to the city\'s larger network.dubbed \'the kid\'s city\'，its planning will contain neighborhoods， different public squares and parks.other amenities include a stadium and batting cage as well as eentials of a fire station， housing， restaurant and city hall.outdoor activities become integral and interior spaces make the active， quiet and outgoing children feel at home with areas for music， play， baking and calm interaction.
Consell Kindergarten The design unit: RIPOLLTIZON Location: Spanish balearic Completion: in 2010 Construction area: 996.05 square meters cost: 1369167 euros
Consell Kindergarten is the extension of the School Complex “Bartomeu Ordines” in Consell， Mallorca (Spain).The new building is composed of: six clarooms (for children between 3 and 5 years old)， one psychomotor claroom and a dining area including kitchen.The design strategy intends to accommodate the whole building area in the ground floor and thus create a fluid relation between the interior and the play grounds.In addition to this， the need of creating the acce to the building from the main avenue， and the need to establish a pedestrian connection with the existing building， led us considering a building to be croed， to be traversed.The building will be a path.We like to think on this’path’ as the starting point of the project.A colorful route in zig-zag that drives the children through the building while it organizes the different ‘claroom clusters’ and functional areas.During the design we developed a typology of ‘claroom cluster’ that is composed by: 2 clarooms connected together that are opened with a glazed facade and a porch towards a private courtyard that serves as the outdoor extension of the claroom.The clusters are oriented east， what ensures good natural light quality for each of them， and avoids the visual relationship with the north facade of the existing school building.A roof follows and protects the’path’ in its zig-zag route， rising to greet us at the main acce from the Avenue， driving us to the clarooms， and offering us a sheltered area next to the playgrounds„ a vibrant and folded shadow roofing that covers and embraces us borrowing the colors of the orange groves nearby.
