The Olivier Métra school in Paris occupies a plot between two forms of opposite housing: brick of the thirties and small private houses with their garden. It is overlooked by large recent residences on the hill of Belleville. In this narrow and long ground, the multipurpose school is posed in the complexity of the urban ground declining a unique material, the pre-patinated zinc with standing seam. He unifies the equipment and takes the particular tones of Paris. While maintaining a neutrality in the heterogeneous faubourien fabric, the school releases a structured space for the playgrounds and directs the classes in the morning sun. The building breaches the villas. Freed from the party, he turns at an angle in the curve of the street Olivier Métra. The southern light slips into the gap, to the playgrounds. The mezzanine device raises the ground floor and playgrounds installed in the slope. It stages the entrance and illuminates the service rooms below.
Zaha Hadid Architects working with TPO Pride Architects (Russia) have been selected as one of the consortiums to build the new Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye neighbourhood.
The jury of the invited competition also selected two further consortiums to develop the project: Nikken Sekkei (Japan) with UNK Project (Russia); and Archea Associati (Italy) with ABD Architects (Russia).
This architecture might remind you of the images of
Kanoko, a fawn drinking water, “Kanoko” means a young deer in Japanese
Like a collar of a Kimono
Like Origami , folding paper work
A huge thumb pointing to the ground
An asymmetric shape
The site is situated on a corner, so you can see two facades of this building. This is the first building that catches youｒ eyes when you get out of the station. Accordingly, we have designed this building not just as a simple cube, but as a funny and interesting form composed by two sides of the façade in order to make people create various images. It is designed sharply, clearly and dynamically.
This project has been carried out thanks to the Torrelodones municipality initiative which seeks to improve the current conditions of the most degraded public schools in the area by introducing a small architectural intervention network of new constructions. This gives the opportunity to introduce ecological concepts in schools with very low cost.
In this case, a small pavilion was required for a sports activity next to the existing school.
Breaking up with the traditional concept of this type of spaces, which are usually very closed to the outside, a large window opened to east appears, offering a view of the sky.
Kismet Park is a primary school with a curriculum focus on the Performing Arts. The existing building stock, whilst generally in good condition, was poorly planned with excess circulation space and not meeting the school’s contemporary needs. A re-landscaped front gate and walkway creates a more direct, comprehensible path to the upgraded Administration. Working within the structural framework of the existing building, the refurbished Administration creates a more secure, accessible space for staff, students and visitors.
The new Täuffelen Primary School and Kindergarten complex and its thought-through architecture for school buildings, offers pupils and teachers a maximum window seat capacity and benefits from fantastic views of the Berner Seeland.
“To help a child, we must provide them with an environment that allows them to develop freely” – Maria Montessori.
Taking this phrase as a design premise, we needed to serve the client in a specific way, thinking like children. Firstly it would be necessary to choose colors that could suit the children, taking into account the importance of primary colors. However, we did not want to work with saturated colors in the interior, so we adapt furniture, carpentry and coatings with a more neutral palette.
Commissioned by Synchroon, Orange Architects has designed an all-in-one school and 190 apartments on the site of the existing SITA office on Heathrowstraat in Amsterdam. The project, Called Floating Gardens, made with the city of Amsterdam, proposes an integral development with a school in the plinth and 190 apartments above.
The area around Sloterdijk station is rapidly transforming from an office district into a mixed-use residential and office district. Sloterdijk Centre will form the heart of a large-scale area development called Haven-Stad.
Advisors: IMd BV, Merosch, M+P, IGG bouweconomie, BK ingenieurs
Team: Patrick Meijers, Jeroen Schipper, Gloria Caiti, Kapilan Chandranesan, Adriano Cirigliano, Casper van Leeuwen, Manuel Magnaguagno, Francesco Mainetti, Erika Ruiz, Elena Staskute, Florentine van der Vaart, Angela Park, Eric Eisma
The project was formulated as a series of isolated volumes, a village of knowledge that takes the organic character of the natural context of the place and the “small scale” of its users, (children between the ages of 4 to 6). The units are articulated through a covered circulation that forms a patio or an “amorphous cloister” with abundant landscaping.
C.F. Møller Architects is behind a major project next to the International School Ikast-Brande with a much-awaited expansion with several halls, multi-functional and educational facilities. The project makes the educational facilities at the school even better, and at the same time creates a new meeting point centred on an area of fast growth in Ikast.
’Hjertet’ (the Heart), as the project is called, includes a multi-purpose building, as well as an activity park, to create a new relation to the neighbouring Business College HHX Ikast, Ikast Brande upper secondary school, the teacher training college, and the International School Ikast-Brande, which was also designed by C.F. Møller.
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