my plan....the messy area is at the open area beside the play structure.
to show how is my building in the six meter boundary with my carpark.
my roof plans. Is layers overlapping each other.
Dedicated to learning how to appreciate architecture and design buildings. Ian is an architect and tutor at various universities.
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I can see an improvement here. You are beginning to think in terms of space and how spaces move and flow into each other, and that’s good. Your scheme has a long space that flows into a fat space (which is your messy area) and that is ok. The space is articulated. Now you have to understand the good points and weak points of this space.
The space has an axis from main door to the other end. You should think of what you want to put at the end of this axis—a tree? An interesting room? A feature wall? Something. The main door is good enough as the other end of this axis.
This axis space is not boring because on one side you have a straight wall, on the other side a jagged wall made up of the diamond shaped class rooms. It’s an interesting contrast. You may therefore want to make this contrast more obvious by making sure that only the classrooms are diamonds, and the other side (Admin, Staff Room, Etc.) are perfect rectangles. And in fact, functionally, the adult rooms need to be rectangular for ease of furniture arrangement.
The play structure and messy area are on another axis, crossing your main axis. You therefore want to again make this very obvious by perhaps having a break-space between classroom 3 and classroom 4 by having a tall window looking out towards the church: Cross look at church, nice mah!
Your roof will be the most dominant thing. Your roof design will be the thing that makes this scheme very good or only so-so. Make it strong, simple and clever. Overlapping is nice. But how is the overlapping? Are you allowing the morning sun to get into the building from clerestory windows, or the evening sun? Since your roof is made up of separate pieces—like an accordion or Venetian blind—there’s no need to join the ends. They should be expressed as separate pieces—like pieces of plank. You may want to make the roof even more interesting by having something on each plank to indicate the long axis below.
The parking doesn’t work. Either make the whole building shorter and park towards the western end, or park all the cars on the south eastern triangle, and build a good strong wall to separate the parking triangle from the play structure.
You’re on the right track, so run to the finishing line now!
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