Dedicated to learning how to appreciate architecture and design buildings. Ian is an architect and tutor at various universities.
Dedicated to learning how to appreciate architecture and design buildings. Ian is an architect and tutor at various universities.
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Fons too small. Post again. Show north point.
This can become a good scheme.
This sheme will work better if it’s mirror imaged so that the string of classrooms are away from Jalan Gasing and face the houses across the cul-de-sac on the south. It’s the quieter side, and of the (small) scale that reflects the classrooms—like, house, classroom, house classroom, house, classroom… Makes that cul-de-sac into a nicer street and therefore your architecture addresses and contributes positively to the neighbourhood.
Your long wall facing the play structure, and the play structure itself, are both of “large scale.” They are your biggest “one thing” in your composition, and therefore can face or “face up to” the big scale church building. Big fight big, small fight small.
I can see that the building can be read as one single thing—like a lazy walrus sunning itself, or a stegosaurus lying down—which is wonderfully fun! And quite suitable to a place where children’s imaginations are being fired up. If your rooms all relate to each other efficiently (if they are all in the right places) then you can allow your artist’s hand to take over in the roof form. You can be free to do the roof in whatever way you like (as long as it doesn’t leak!) because your architecture is after all a free-form, organic type, as seen in your plan. It’s time to have fun now!
One thing to be careful about: Is your internal circulation just one huge race track going round and round, or are there places to stop and rest? Does the MPH have a reasonably sized breakout space? Are the spaces articulated?
As I can’t read your fons I don’t know where the entrance is. Entrance is very important.
Where are the transitional spaces? Does everything happen only indoors?
What’s happened to all the trees? I know you don’t like children, but you don’t like trees also…?
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