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Bioclimatic School - Crete
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Arranged around a central cloistered agora and approached via
a grand stair, the school is a celebration of classical design.
Passive and active environmental innovations, together with proven
vernacular and modern construction techniques, create a synergy of
architecture that learns from the past and looks to the future.
In response to the environment the
school complex is orientated by the cardinal grid with each north,
south, east and west point marked as a learning mechanism for the
students to understand the direction of the wind and path of the sun,
thus growing aware of how their natural environment behaves and impacts
upon them. Crete’s temperate climate allows each individual school to
be considered as a series of indoor and outdoor spaces where the
circulation and places for gathering form an open-air atrium, protected
from the sun by the signature climate roof.
Drawing from Knossos Temple, the concept
for the design of the school looks to the places made by classical and
historical architecture for gathering and learning - the agora, the
quadrangle, the cloister and the atrium. Central to the development
of the concept is the temperate climate of Crete that allows these
communal gathering and circulation spaces to be outdoors. The
classrooms, offices and halls being the only fully enclosed spaces,
which are conceived conceptually as branches of an olive tree such that
the wind flows naturally around them bringing fresh air and vitality.
The outdoor spaces function as multi-purpose rooms adaptable to the
needs of the students, parents, teachers and community.
These outdoor rooms are connected,
protected and celebrated through the introduction of a signature
climate screen that wraps the individual classroom ‘branches’ together
embracing all of the functions of each school. As a canopy of
protective leaves the climate screen allows light and air to flow
through animating the central spaces with the changing day and
seasons. The screen is also conceptually considered as the basis of
language that permeates and weaves together all written languages -
linked dashes and dots. These icons stem from the first known
languages, through to the digital age with universal recognition
embraced by all of the world’s cultures - text and punctuation, script
and accent, logograms and characters, 0 and 1.......
a grand stair, the school is a celebration of classical design.
Passive and active environmental innovations, together with proven
vernacular and modern construction techniques, create a synergy of
architecture that learns from the past and looks to the future.
In response to the environment the
school complex is orientated by the cardinal grid with each north,
south, east and west point marked as a learning mechanism for the
students to understand the direction of the wind and path of the sun,
thus growing aware of how their natural environment behaves and impacts
upon them. Crete’s temperate climate allows each individual school to
be considered as a series of indoor and outdoor spaces where the
circulation and places for gathering form an open-air atrium, protected
from the sun by the signature climate roof.
Drawing from Knossos Temple, the concept
for the design of the school looks to the places made by classical and
historical architecture for gathering and learning - the agora, the
quadrangle, the cloister and the atrium. Central to the development
of the concept is the temperate climate of Crete that allows these
communal gathering and circulation spaces to be outdoors. The
classrooms, offices and halls being the only fully enclosed spaces,
which are conceived conceptually as branches of an olive tree such that
the wind flows naturally around them bringing fresh air and vitality.
The outdoor spaces function as multi-purpose rooms adaptable to the
needs of the students, parents, teachers and community.
These outdoor rooms are connected,
protected and celebrated through the introduction of a signature
climate screen that wraps the individual classroom ‘branches’ together
embracing all of the functions of each school. As a canopy of
protective leaves the climate screen allows light and air to flow
through animating the central spaces with the changing day and
seasons. The screen is also conceptually considered as the basis of
language that permeates and weaves together all written languages -
linked dashes and dots. These icons stem from the first known
languages, through to the digital age with universal recognition
embraced by all of the world’s cultures - text and punctuation, script
and accent, logograms and characters, 0 and 1.......
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