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New Kindergarten for Papagos
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Type
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The new bioclimatic kindergarten for the Municipality of Papagos, having a capacity of 34 Toddlers and 38 Infants, was designed under an architectural competition, in a corner plot, next to the Cultural Centre of Papagos.
Starting with the creativity of children, the dominant concept for the kindergarten was the creation of a `village`, a `collection` of volumes and shapes, a building complex that leads to a result away from a `tectonic` construction, and beyond the preconceived idea of a `building` that merely `houses` functions.
Volumes, shapes and forms, that appear to be shaped in plasticine, with sand on the beach or with clay, creating collectives of volumes with a variety of colours and textures, a `world` of their own, with a particular `language`.
The kindergarten is perceived as an arrangement of organic building volumes, that appears to emerge from the ground itself, at various heights, maintaining also its vegetation, and which are organized around an atrium which remains part of the landscape. Familiar forms, `soft` and friendly, help in transitioning to a kindergarten which embodies familiarity and not the austere enforcement of a `cold` building.
The scheme is governed by 3 parallel main zones: The northwest zone where the servicing spaces of the kindergarten are located, the southeast zone the main `units` of the kindergarten are located, and the middle zone, which accommodates the circulation of the building, and the common atrium. The building is placed detached from the plot boundaries, in the middle of which the bioclimatic atrium is the main reference point of all the nursery spaces.
On the ground floor, all the toddler spaces are arranged, the multifunctional space and the doctor’ s office, as well as the staff areas and the kitchen. The first floor is occupied solely by the infants spaces, and on the basement the staff changing rooms, auxiliary storage and MEP spaces as well as the car park. On the rooftop of the building, apart from some MEP installations, a garden is used for educational purposes by staff and toddlers, improving in the same time the microclimate by absorbing solar radiation.
The main elevations of the building volumes are clad with terracotta of four shades, with direct reference to the earth and the ground from which they emerge. The same material turns as interior cladding in the interior sides of the volumes, while external facades of the staircases are covered with colorful external insulation.
Starting with the creativity of children, the dominant concept for the kindergarten was the creation of a `village`, a `collection` of volumes and shapes, a building complex that leads to a result away from a `tectonic` construction, and beyond the preconceived idea of a `building` that merely `houses` functions.
Volumes, shapes and forms, that appear to be shaped in plasticine, with sand on the beach or with clay, creating collectives of volumes with a variety of colours and textures, a `world` of their own, with a particular `language`.
The kindergarten is perceived as an arrangement of organic building volumes, that appears to emerge from the ground itself, at various heights, maintaining also its vegetation, and which are organized around an atrium which remains part of the landscape. Familiar forms, `soft` and friendly, help in transitioning to a kindergarten which embodies familiarity and not the austere enforcement of a `cold` building.
The scheme is governed by 3 parallel main zones: The northwest zone where the servicing spaces of the kindergarten are located, the southeast zone the main `units` of the kindergarten are located, and the middle zone, which accommodates the circulation of the building, and the common atrium. The building is placed detached from the plot boundaries, in the middle of which the bioclimatic atrium is the main reference point of all the nursery spaces.
On the ground floor, all the toddler spaces are arranged, the multifunctional space and the doctor’ s office, as well as the staff areas and the kitchen. The first floor is occupied solely by the infants spaces, and on the basement the staff changing rooms, auxiliary storage and MEP spaces as well as the car park. On the rooftop of the building, apart from some MEP installations, a garden is used for educational purposes by staff and toddlers, improving in the same time the microclimate by absorbing solar radiation.
The main elevations of the building volumes are clad with terracotta of four shades, with direct reference to the earth and the ground from which they emerge. The same material turns as interior cladding in the interior sides of the volumes, while external facades of the staircases are covered with colorful external insulation.
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