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International School Puchong
International School Puchong
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Other Projects by NWKA Architects
International School Puchong
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
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Design Brief
East meets West. This is our clients brief, simply to create a school that enable us to bring the best of the two worlds together. The school foster Eastern Values and Culture with Western knowledge and creativity. They seek to provide a place and environment where what you teach will provide the experiential foundation to a person life.
It is a triangulated 6.8 acre site and it is a Campus to accommodate 1500 students to be built over two phases. It is designed to cater to primarily local students in the Puchong area, and an education programme based on an International curriculum.
Physical Settings
Taylor’s International School Puchong is located at Bandar Bukit Puchong 2 directly accessible of the Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP) within easy reach of Subang Jaya, Cyberjaya and Putrajaya.
The campus is sited on an elevated land overlooking the LDP and fronting the South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE) in a precinct on the edge of the township with a dedicated access road that also serve a public school, an apartment and some gated communities.
Social Settings
It is appropriately tucked into the upper middle income area of the Puchong conurbation. Learning from the experiences of the school traffic problems in Kuala Lumpur, the traffic management system is a key integral part of the comprehensive master planning for a smooth structural flowing system to eliminate any long term negative impact of the traffic is the neighbourhood. The separation of traffic from the functioning area also creates a fully pedestrianized Campus.
Traffic management on Campus is a unique electronically controlled linear vehicular queueing System. It is a dedicated all weather facility with 3 parallel in line lanes for quick orderly Students Arrival/Departure. An electronic call System allows parents to notify students early to be ready for pick up upon the vehicles arrival. The Arrival/Departure Halls are comfortable waiting lobbies designated for the respective year groups. This Students Transfer System is designed for efficiency and uninterrupted traffic flow solution to solve a perennial school traffic problem. Buses are completely separated at the Ground Level Zone for quick turnarounds and safety. All Arrival /Departure Facilities are located within the Campus boundaries and property to maximize full students’ safety and security.
Environmental Settings
The Campus Buildings are orientated on an East West Axis to minimize heat gain from the Sun. There is a double Tier Roof that shades the Campus Buildings and keeps the Structures cool throughout the Day.
The Campus uses natural ventilation for over 50% of the building spaces to negate the constant need for energy use for climatic control. The Campus uses wind funnelling by channelling natural air flow through a compressed space to create natural breeze for cooling and provide a comfortable outdoor environment. Cross ventilation is maximized and harnessed as the energy driver.
The buildings are designed to be slim in form to maximize natural lighting into the buildings so that the students learns in their daily activities that they do not need to depend on artificially induced light all the time.
Greeneries are intertwined with all the Physically Built up Areas to blend Nature and Development so that students understand that we are custodians of the Environment. Green Walls are used as Classroom shades. Students learn to play under Tree Canopies again. Herb Garden areas allow students to understand cultivation and nurturing.
The Flowing Roofs are collectors for rainwater harvesting so that we can conserve natural resources which are critical and current national issues for a sense of their surroundings and learn that we share responsibilities of the world.
Materials and Resources
Over sixty percent of the materials and resources employed in the construction of the school were procured and produced locally due to availability and cost effectiveness.
Generally, the sourcing of the materials are dependent on the suppliers. Who are in a lot of instances companies which are regional or international supply and production chains. Priority are given to locally produced materials based on the cost benefits.
As such, the external envelopes like the metal deck roofs, walls and renderings are locally produced. The aluminium and glazing works were also produced locally but the components were produced in neighbouring countries.
Meanwhile, the Auditorium features a second skin façade which wraps around the auditorium with Voronoi cut outs patterns as an architectural expression that depicts the form as point of celebration in learning. The façade is clad in off-white, Equitone fibre cement panels which are joined to the wall by steel brackets and further supported by cables. The façade forms a distinctive shadow effects as the outline of the cut outs offers lively depth and contrasts on the grey wall. Whereas at night time, the LED lighting lights up from within the cavity to form a lively contrast on the auditorium’s façade as the off-white fibre cement panel turns dark while the internal grey wall appears bright.
Constraints
The greatest financial challenge that was faced by the project was to achieve an extraordinary architectural expression with an ordinary mid-level budget for a school.
The key architectural feature were on the roof and façade. The impact was a severe redesign to construct the same flowing curved metal roof with a standard straight flat profile. The principle we adopted was to fix and make minor adjustments level at every bolting point over the length of the roof. This eliminated the need for a special pre-formed two-way curve sections and panels.
We also replaced the intended aluminium with Equitone fibre cement panels for the second skin auditorium. The standard steel support cables enabled us to achieve the floating sensation replacing the concealed bracketing system for the aluminium option. The material support replacement was extremely cost effective as it simultaneously reduced significantly the material quantities required in a conventional method of construction.
The Academic Block’s green façade was also constructed with a cost-effective method. We adopted a simple cable stay system to allow creepers to climb up from the planter boxes at every 3 metre height in order to achieve the overall effect.
The Campus That Celebrates Learning
In Taylors International School Puchong, we have created a Campus that celebrates Learning where we free up the environment for a child’s mind for Possibilities.
It is an open Campus, flowing from space to space delighting and surprises at each corner you turn. The campus is designed to stimulate where the concept of learning is redefined. It is where learning is continuous and occurs everywhere in the physical spaces. It is seamless and it is not confined to the classrooms only as it seeks to remove any physical impediments to learning.
The openness is even more apparent and contrasting to traditional school buildings which are dictated by classrooms and more rooms, compartmentalized and institutionalized learning.
Caring for the environment is not just a subject taught in School but is a way of Life in this campus. Green walls are used as shades for the classrooms and students learns to play under tree canopies.
The campus is designed for learning, living and playing to be a natural progression of each other. The Architecture seeks to interact and integrate the learning environment. It uses the form, function and colours to stimulate and not dull the mind. By challenging convention, the design sets a stage for the educators to develop critical thinkers and not just doers to be leaders who has an affinity for the world around them.
What you teach, how you teach and where you teach are the foundation where the children are able to build and discern with discretion and values. Where they can prepare to face the world and truly learn with their eyes wide open.
East meets West. This is our clients brief, simply to create a school that enable us to bring the best of the two worlds together. The school foster Eastern Values and Culture with Western knowledge and creativity. They seek to provide a place and environment where what you teach will provide the experiential foundation to a person life.
It is a triangulated 6.8 acre site and it is a Campus to accommodate 1500 students to be built over two phases. It is designed to cater to primarily local students in the Puchong area, and an education programme based on an International curriculum.
Physical Settings
Taylor’s International School Puchong is located at Bandar Bukit Puchong 2 directly accessible of the Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP) within easy reach of Subang Jaya, Cyberjaya and Putrajaya.
The campus is sited on an elevated land overlooking the LDP and fronting the South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE) in a precinct on the edge of the township with a dedicated access road that also serve a public school, an apartment and some gated communities.
Social Settings
It is appropriately tucked into the upper middle income area of the Puchong conurbation. Learning from the experiences of the school traffic problems in Kuala Lumpur, the traffic management system is a key integral part of the comprehensive master planning for a smooth structural flowing system to eliminate any long term negative impact of the traffic is the neighbourhood. The separation of traffic from the functioning area also creates a fully pedestrianized Campus.
Traffic management on Campus is a unique electronically controlled linear vehicular queueing System. It is a dedicated all weather facility with 3 parallel in line lanes for quick orderly Students Arrival/Departure. An electronic call System allows parents to notify students early to be ready for pick up upon the vehicles arrival. The Arrival/Departure Halls are comfortable waiting lobbies designated for the respective year groups. This Students Transfer System is designed for efficiency and uninterrupted traffic flow solution to solve a perennial school traffic problem. Buses are completely separated at the Ground Level Zone for quick turnarounds and safety. All Arrival /Departure Facilities are located within the Campus boundaries and property to maximize full students’ safety and security.
Environmental Settings
The Campus Buildings are orientated on an East West Axis to minimize heat gain from the Sun. There is a double Tier Roof that shades the Campus Buildings and keeps the Structures cool throughout the Day.
The Campus uses natural ventilation for over 50% of the building spaces to negate the constant need for energy use for climatic control. The Campus uses wind funnelling by channelling natural air flow through a compressed space to create natural breeze for cooling and provide a comfortable outdoor environment. Cross ventilation is maximized and harnessed as the energy driver.
The buildings are designed to be slim in form to maximize natural lighting into the buildings so that the students learns in their daily activities that they do not need to depend on artificially induced light all the time.
Greeneries are intertwined with all the Physically Built up Areas to blend Nature and Development so that students understand that we are custodians of the Environment. Green Walls are used as Classroom shades. Students learn to play under Tree Canopies again. Herb Garden areas allow students to understand cultivation and nurturing.
The Flowing Roofs are collectors for rainwater harvesting so that we can conserve natural resources which are critical and current national issues for a sense of their surroundings and learn that we share responsibilities of the world.
Materials and Resources
Over sixty percent of the materials and resources employed in the construction of the school were procured and produced locally due to availability and cost effectiveness.
Generally, the sourcing of the materials are dependent on the suppliers. Who are in a lot of instances companies which are regional or international supply and production chains. Priority are given to locally produced materials based on the cost benefits.
As such, the external envelopes like the metal deck roofs, walls and renderings are locally produced. The aluminium and glazing works were also produced locally but the components were produced in neighbouring countries.
Meanwhile, the Auditorium features a second skin façade which wraps around the auditorium with Voronoi cut outs patterns as an architectural expression that depicts the form as point of celebration in learning. The façade is clad in off-white, Equitone fibre cement panels which are joined to the wall by steel brackets and further supported by cables. The façade forms a distinctive shadow effects as the outline of the cut outs offers lively depth and contrasts on the grey wall. Whereas at night time, the LED lighting lights up from within the cavity to form a lively contrast on the auditorium’s façade as the off-white fibre cement panel turns dark while the internal grey wall appears bright.
Constraints
The greatest financial challenge that was faced by the project was to achieve an extraordinary architectural expression with an ordinary mid-level budget for a school.
The key architectural feature were on the roof and façade. The impact was a severe redesign to construct the same flowing curved metal roof with a standard straight flat profile. The principle we adopted was to fix and make minor adjustments level at every bolting point over the length of the roof. This eliminated the need for a special pre-formed two-way curve sections and panels.
We also replaced the intended aluminium with Equitone fibre cement panels for the second skin auditorium. The standard steel support cables enabled us to achieve the floating sensation replacing the concealed bracketing system for the aluminium option. The material support replacement was extremely cost effective as it simultaneously reduced significantly the material quantities required in a conventional method of construction.
The Academic Block’s green façade was also constructed with a cost-effective method. We adopted a simple cable stay system to allow creepers to climb up from the planter boxes at every 3 metre height in order to achieve the overall effect.
The Campus That Celebrates Learning
In Taylors International School Puchong, we have created a Campus that celebrates Learning where we free up the environment for a child’s mind for Possibilities.
It is an open Campus, flowing from space to space delighting and surprises at each corner you turn. The campus is designed to stimulate where the concept of learning is redefined. It is where learning is continuous and occurs everywhere in the physical spaces. It is seamless and it is not confined to the classrooms only as it seeks to remove any physical impediments to learning.
The openness is even more apparent and contrasting to traditional school buildings which are dictated by classrooms and more rooms, compartmentalized and institutionalized learning.
Caring for the environment is not just a subject taught in School but is a way of Life in this campus. Green walls are used as shades for the classrooms and students learns to play under tree canopies.
The campus is designed for learning, living and playing to be a natural progression of each other. The Architecture seeks to interact and integrate the learning environment. It uses the form, function and colours to stimulate and not dull the mind. By challenging convention, the design sets a stage for the educators to develop critical thinkers and not just doers to be leaders who has an affinity for the world around them.
What you teach, how you teach and where you teach are the foundation where the children are able to build and discern with discretion and values. Where they can prepare to face the world and truly learn with their eyes wide open.
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