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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Piriyakorn Tamthong : Project 1.2 TOY

TOY

Building Papa

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DNA

Dano Secondary School + Gando Primary School

@Burkina Faso

Architect

Francis Kere

Taking characteristics from the buildings and 

use them to design a toy

Extracted Characteristics

hand-made process / vaulted ceiling / porousness

Goal

To let kids to learn their own vault from

imagination through provided toy. To explain,

they can generate variety of patterns and possibilities

of brick arrangement.

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Overview

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Full Manual

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Inventory

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 Steps

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VIDEO - showing how to play

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Possibilities of arrangement

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Model - inventory

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwWHYwncJouodzhYOGk5UFNmOEE?usp=sharing

Model - showing steps

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwWHYwncJouoT1VyLUtOTjdIMEE?usp=sharing

Piriyakorn Tamthong : Project 1.1 Didactic DNA

Didactic DNA

Project 1.1

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Francis Kéré

Kéré Architecture

Francis Kéré was the first child in the village 

to be sent to school and later graduated from Berlin 

(supported by the locals in Gando). 

He was symbolized as a "light of hope" 

who brings better life to

Burkina Faso.

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Dano Secondary School

Gando Primary School

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Matrix

I'd prefer to explain the second row first 

because it is the first project Francis done,

becoming the inspiration to his other designs.

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Site Data

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest country in the

world. In this country (about a decade ago), there were no regulations, no architects - engineers, no electricity and clean water. 85-90 percent

of people are illiteracy.

There are 2 seasons : Dry (Nov-Jun) // Rainy (Jul-Oct)

Houses are made of mud and clay.

Rain is the main cause of house deterioration.

Project - GOALS

- To help people to help themselves / become independent

from other nations and gain more skills

- Improve quality of life

- Help the locals to appreciate the value of local materials

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Second Row 

 GANDO PRIMARY SCHOOL

Gando Village, Burkina Faso

Finished 2001

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Gando School was Francis's first project, started while

he was studying in university in Berlin. The building processes are 100 percent handmade.

The clay making method is very simple and old-fashioned :

 bring a piece of earth > crush it again and again > add some water and 

compressed it with wooden stick or just by stomp on it so we get a thick sheet of laterite >

cut it with handsaw so we get pieces of laterite brick.

The shape of school is very simple : starting from I-shaped block and 

divide it into 3 identical rooms. Every room is classroom.

The space between the first 2 classrooms is workshop space.

Clay is opaque. The design plays on porousness of the building

in order to increase its 'transparency' - not looking too solid.

(can see through the building - from one side of the window to the another side)

Francis decided to focus on cross ventilation system (related to porousness)

the air just flow from one window to another window.

The corrugated roof also elevated from the ceiling and supported with trusses 

to let air freely flow between the roof and the structure. It also 

works as a rain-driver and sunlight-preventer.

The window can be adjusted in three ways 

1. Closed-shutters : block everything from the outside into the building

2. Opened-shutters : let air to comes into the building

3. 90 degrees flipping : let more air to comes into the building

There are 2 types of vertical supporting system

1. Squared buttress : support the walls and emphasize the building's shape and dimension

2. Rounded column : to support the structure and safer to children

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 DANO SECONDARY SCHOOL

Dano Village, Burkina Faso

Finished 2007

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Dano school is like an upgraded version from Gando school, 

changing from I-shaped to L-shaped, divide it into 5 identical

blocks. 3 of them are identical classrooms, 1 of them is teacher office and

one of them is taken out, leaving a void and replaced with oval-public seating.

The brick making method is a bit higher technological :

mix sand, clay, water together > put it into a mechanical machine >

compressed it so we get a piece of brick.

Francis still concentrated on porousness and ventilation system.

We can still see through the building through windows.

Communal space is added into this building. 

The space in front of / behind the building and 

the seating space are being used for public meeting.

There is a slight change for the shape of the corrugated roof. 

Its more wavy-shaped but still works exactly the same as Gando.

Ventilation system is quite similar to the previous one :

Air flow between 2 walls through windows. Elevated roof

provides air flow under it, but one thing that is 

added into this system is inverted-U-shaped ceiling.

There gaps between the ceiling. When air comes in the interioroity

of the school, it will be sucked up through these gaps, flowing out from the space

under the roof.

Window still works exactly the same function as Gando

There are 3 adjustments (the first 2 performing is the same)

1. Closed-shutters : block everything from the outside into the building

2. Opened-shutters : let air to comes into the building

3. Window slide-up : It is easier to perform than 90 degrees flipping but

amount of air penetration remains the same

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There are some architectures that share the same concept

 or system in the same way as Dano and Gando school.

Marie Short House - focused on space division and void

Marika Alderton House - focused on ventilation system

The Yellow Submarine - focused on roof system and porousness

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