12 classrooms with 1 level
Area: 21,078 sq. ft.
Volume: 325,176 cu. ft.
The design of this twelve-classroom school is based on a desire to group homogeneous school activities in differentiated spaces and volumes. The school appears as four identical volumes arranged around a central space. These volumes correspond to each of the three cycles, plus a volume including the administration, the kindergarten and the dining room. The central space serves as a grouping room around which are arranged the services: cloakrooms, changing rooms, toilets, storage.
This design offers the following advantages: grouping each of the three cycles independently, a flexible and appropriate distribution of the different services around the grouping room, using the grouping room as a crossroads space or as a departure to all the activities of the school, the possibility of grouping the four classes of each cycle on a corridor which also serves as a buffer zone between the grouping room and the classrooms, the possibility of creating a continuous sequence of interior volumes in relation to the central space of the grouping room and finally the possibility of expressing externally the main functions of the school by a corresponding set of volumes. This play or fragmentation of the general volume of the school, allows the construction of a building that is at the appropriate scale of a residential area or a rural village, (at the scale of the child) and the family environment.
The floor structure will be a concrete structure over a crawl space.
The roof structure will be a 12" or 14" spruce joist assembly. In the grouping room the roof will be a laminated beam and spruce joist structure.
The exterior walls will be as economical as possible. They will consist of 8" thick load bearing concrete blocks, covered on the exterior with 1 1/2" thick white stucco and on the interior with insulation and plaster over gypsum lath.
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Pros
- Clear and well-studied plan.
- Friendly atmosphere.
- Well laid out entrances.
- In case the locker rooms are movable, the spaces in them would contribute to the multipurpose use of the grouping room.
Cons
- Lighting in the grouping room needs to be reviewed.
- Poor access to restrooms.
- Insufficient access corridors to classrooms.
- The character of the classrooms' volume conditioned by the arbitrary shape of the roofs needs to be reconsidered.
- Questionable orientation of classrooms.
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