Lamoricière School / archi5

25 Febrero 2012

 
Completed in September 2011, the reconstruction and expansion of the Lamoricière School, designed by archi5 upon winning a competition for their concept, is a landmark in the neighborhood, as well as a meeting and exchange place open to its environment. The building is subtly inserted in the existing surroundings while affirming its public facility characteristics. The decomposition of the volume allows it to include the new equipment in the extension of the kindergarten template and to respect the scale of neighboring buildings.

The proposed design of this reconstruction and expansion is based on a careful reading of background characteristics. The school group suffered many failures due to spatial overlapping of functions. This was leading to confusion between flows and a lack of visibility of the kindergarten and its access from the Boulevard Carnot.

© Fabien Terreaux & Thomas Jorion

The position of urban and ambition of the program led us to propose a comprehensive strategy with two complementary goals:
- A volumetric composition that provides independent reading programs and their access
- Cohesion of the school group as separate entities with a new urban facade on the Boulevard Carnot.

© Fabien Terreaux & Thomas Jorion

The project is part of a process of optimizing the overall cost and the inclusion of environmental criteria and sustainable development. It was constructed according to the goals of the climate plan of the City of Paris, 50 kWh/m3 / year. The reflections we have conducted during studies and works have followed several lines:
- Program Technical Requirements
- Relevance to the architectural design of the project
- Durability and cost optimization, operation, maintenance and maintenance materials
- Ease of use
- Optimization of operating costs and maintenance in terms of investment costs
- Optimization of maintenance of technical systems implementation

 
http://www.archdaily.com/211298/lamoriciere-school-archi5/

Gimnasio Mãe Luiza en Brasil: Herzog & de Meuron

14 febrero 2012

 

© Herzog & de Meuron

El estado original del centro recreacional de Mae Luiza se trataba de una plataforma de concreto completamente expuesta rodeada de columnas y bragueros. Los planes para el nuevo gimnasio se expanden sobre este marco estirando la geometría del edificio hacia arriba y hacia afuera conviertiendose en una gran cubierta. Se espera que el proyecto se complete para el año 2013, un año previo al FIFA World Cup en Brasil.
  
© Herzog & de Meuron

Un sistema ranurado del tejado evoca la escala urbana y la simplicidad elemental. Los paneles de aluminio se arreglan con huecos cubiertos entre ellos. Estos huecos permiten que el aire circule libremente, permitiendo que los atletas se refresquen al mismo tiempo que se ahorra en costos para la ventilación. La entrada de luz natural cubre los suelos reduciendo otros requerimientos de energía.

© Herzog & de Meuron

El centro atlético estará envuelto en un muro ondulante de concreto el cual simula los movimientos de las dunas. La variedad en el color, grano y textura del edificio crea sutiles diferencias a lo largo del complejo. Un suelo continuo e ininterrumpido es rodeado por espacios para sentarse en sus lados. El edificio también incorpora salas para varios usos menos formales y promete convertirse en un espacio publico único que va a promover la actividad en la comunidad.

© Herzog & de Meuron

http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/2012/02/14/herzog-de-meuron-revela-imagenes-del-gimnasio-mae-luiza-en-brasil/

Xiaoquan Elementary School / TAO

09 febrero 2012

  

 

 © Yao Li
  

The old XiaoQuan Elementary School was severely damaged during the catastrophic 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008 and was demolished afterwards. Supported by donations from several sponsors, the project is to build new school in the center of Xiaoquan old town. The program consists of main classroom buildings, classrooms for various activities, teacher’s office, student dormitory buildings, and dining hall. The new school will host more than 900 students.

 

© Yao Li

The design is conceived as a cluster of small buildings to create a micro-city like campus. The fragmentary instead of unified building composition creates many urban like place such us streets, plazas, courtyards, and steps at various scales. These places are intended to encourage diversified and spontaneous activities of children. Small-scale playful corners and labyrinth like space as passage and playground are created to provoke children’s curiosity and imagination. Through this, we also intend to continue the urban space memory of Xiaoquan town in the school building, so as to avoid completely losing the continuity of urban fabric during rebuilding process after earthquake.

© Yao Li

The design responds to Sichuan’s hot and humid climate. Sunshade device, natural ventilation and heat reduction are important elements considered in design. We also explore to maximize the use of local resource and craftsmanship which can be acquired. Local materials such as wood, brick and bamboo are used for windows, walls, and ceilings. The recycled bricks from earthquake are used in pavement. Cast-in-situ concrete are used for exposed structure. The construction is completely done by a local contractor. The construction cost is well controlled within the economical budget of RMB 1,500 yuan per square meter.

 

http://www.archdaily.com/205454/xiaoquan-elementary-school-tao/

Arcos Complex / Claudio Sat Unipessoal lda

26 Febrero 2012

The construction of two parts of the group of the New educational spaces, the primary and lower secondary school and the sports pavilion, became the first complex of Óbidos, called the Complexo dos Arcos, with a covered area of 6,015 m2, and which responded to the program described above in the Escolas D´Óbidos–Schools of Óbidos. It is around the main atrium that the diverse systems of the complex are organised: pedagogical, social, administrative, services and sports. This also houses the functions of reception/information and control of the school and of the pavilion.
 
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

The spatial distribution permits its division into two quite different systems: the social and pedagogical systems. The social subsystems overlook the public space, potentially forming permanently functioning sectors. The pedagogical subsystems are backed against the quietest and furthest sector from the Stadium Terrace. There are, without a doubt, more exposed pedagogical subsystems, like the resource centre; the visual and technological education room and the multi-purpose and music room, which can merge with the open spaces.


sections

At the top of the first band there is the resource centre, which includes areas with different functions, such as the reception, cataloguing, loan and consultation of books, magazines, videos, audio and computer material. Above, on the first floor, the computer room can be used as an extension of the resource centre. At the end of the second band the science laboratory and visual and technological education room share identical criteria of complementarity as the resource centre/computer room.


© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

At the top of the third band there is the multi-purpose and music room, the more isolated location of which seeks to minimise the propagation of sound to elsewhere. Here an entrance from the outside also facilitates the use of this space by independent groups. In the social sector we can enter the dining hall and the buffet from the main atrium and, alternatively, from the outside. The administrative and education support sector is concentrated into level 0 and level 1, the main office here being that of the general secretary, comprising a counter which functions as the reception desk of the school and, occasionally, of the pavilion.


© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

The installations of the pavilion and respective shower rooms can be used by the inhabitants of the district. It was decided to support its impressive volume over the also grandiose group of pine trees on the site, now framed from the interior by an ample glazed opening facing North, which offers a regular distribution of the light, convenient for playing sports. On the West façade, another extensive window allows the activities inside to be watched, to a degree attenuating the lack of seating for spectators.

© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

The proposal shows the empty spaces of the Stadium Terrace, of the Largo do Aqueduto and of the Park on the Slope are shown, where a natural park is proposed, designed as a continuous scenographic backdrop which takes advantage of existing paths to define maintenance circuits, equipment, belvederes and areas of shade that consolidate the land and reduce its degradation and erosion.
 
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

The Stadium Terrace is the unifying spatial element of this proposal. Flanked to the East by the building and to the West by the wall of the Municipal Stadium, it has no limits in a North-South direction, as in this direction it is proposed to continue a walkway that comes from the town, goes around the stadium and passes other sports spaces before returning in the direction of the historic centre.

 

http://www.archdaily.com/210885/arcos-complex-claudio-sat-unipessoal-lda/