The areas we aimed to cover in the master plan:
- Provide parking to accommodate for teaching staff, parents and visitors.
- Reduce congestion of Grossman’s road at peak drop off and pick up times by incorporating a road travelling through the school and a drive-through drop-off and pick-up point.
- Accommodate for the winter sun by having large quantities of North facing windows.
- Allow the penetration of sunlight in buildings through central courtyards and high windows to create a high level of natural lighting throughout the school.
- Aim to focus the winter sun on outdoor recreational areas.
- Eaves windows to reject the summer sunlight and emit the winter sunlight.
- Configure the design to emit the prevailing wind of summer months into main recreational areas.
- Configure the design to shelter outdoor recreational areas from the harsh prevailing winter winds.
- Utilise natural barriers, such as landscaping and land formations to redirect unwanted winds.
- Provide access to all school areas by creating a boardwalk to connect buildings
- Link the existing and new school grounds by the boardwalk to enable shared use of facilities and spaces, including courts
- Reduce reduce traffic congestion at the front entrance by creating a secondary drop-off point at the rear of the school via a boardwalk that encourages the use of public transport by providing access to the bus stop, thus creating a primarily student pedestrian entrance
- The layout of the buildings was designed to creating a sunken courtyard space in the centre of the school that can be used by the students as a place to relax, study or eat
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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