Piriyakorn Tamthong : Project 1.3 School Design Project - Gando Kingergarten

School Design Project

Gando Kindergarten

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After doing research about the two previous school, I mainly focused

on Gando Primary School, which is the starting point of Gando Project.

In the village in Gando, Burkina Faso, Gando Project led by 
Kere Architecture produced many facilities

for the villagers whatever primary and secondary school, school extension, and

woman association center. From my consideration, I decided to design kindergarten to this village as the fifth phase, continuing from Gando Project #4.

There are several reasons; why kindergarten?

1. Gando has only upper level of institutions

2. In fact, children in Burkina Faso starts to learn basic subjects when they were six.

Having 'lower level of institution will set a new educational standard for them.

Gando Kindergarten

atmosphere

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Proposal

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First row - Information about Gando Kindergerten

Second row + Third row - Information about Gando and Dano School (same as phase1)
Right Part - perspective view of Gando Kindergarten

Gando Kindergarten (zoom in)

Form & Arrangement

After experiencing several times through massing models, I kept follow
the arrangement of Gando Secondary School - L shaped.
The L was divided in to 6 blocks and two of them were 
slided down in different position.

I was struggle about the shape of the room.
 Precise-square, roude-edge square, circle, or oval?
Thanks to Kere for the logic of the rotation of oval (increasing space) from Dano School, I followed his logic, choosing oval as a form of the rooms. 

The building was designed to looking playful for the children
 by playing with curvatures.

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Porousness

The transparency principle still being applied to this school similar as 

the case studies.

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Program

3 x classroom

1 x garden

1 x soft surface playground

1 x hard surface playground

1 x bathroom

1 x teacher office (+ toilet, + clinic)

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Structure

Column

There are 2 types of columns; round and square in order to play with safety of the user.
They arranged in a grid pattern for both inside and outside of the room.

Beam

Beams are laid horizontally on the columns, still placed in a grid pattern.

The beam is the main key to play with the ideas of 'oneness' and 'individuality'
That is to say, some rooms are separated from each other and they seems to be like they are floating. Beams is used for playing as a connector to connect each blocks to let they become a whole.

Truss

Trusses are placed on the beam, supporting spank curved roofs.
(There are 4 curved roofs for each room)

Stair

Or foundation. There are two parts; The first part is at in front of the 
entrance, function as a walkway. The second part is the rest area of
a stair. It functions as seating for the client.

Classrooms have three elevations:
1st grade is on the lowest
2nd grade is higher than the 1st grade
3rd grade is the highest
Which the elevation can symbolized as reaching for higher level
and giving respect to the higher grade.

The class of 1st grade sit nearest to the office and bathroom.

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Institution

The school mainly let the young to learn by themselves through doing activities 
around the school. The kindergarten also let them to learn about gardening, which is 
compulsory in the country's curriculum.

Grid arrangement generates 2 bays for each room, resulting the German intention of
placing furniture.

The design of the truss and the roof also influenced from bays.
It works as a space divider for each room.

Details and additional information about the placement of the furniture
are provided graphically in the proposal.
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Ventilation System

The school is no electricity required. 
It comforts the users by giving optimum amount of air and light through cross ventilation system and 'transparency' of the windows.
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Model

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