Project Story:
School: it is an interactive space between children and teenagers with their teachers and the combined biological transmission resulting from interaction and education. Interaction and experience is a topic that is more important than classical education in recent years. Therefore, the spatial qualities experienced in the space of this school were an important point. How to design a school for experience rather than education? How can children implement the experience of communal and urban life in school? it seems that the achievement of all these concepts can be analyzed from the perspective of architecture and education in the future. the future is involved in what concepts should be transferred to the next generation as part of the life pattern in schools, and this transfer is possible not only through classroom education but also through experiential education.
Future: for us, the future brings the climate-biological future of mankind, because the most important issues for the future generations are living in a post-fossil fuel world. The threshold of comfort and heat has been transformed to some extent due to the lack of non-renewable energy in recent years, and it leads us to build spaces in accordance with this era. a future that will adhere more to global warming, energy consumption and the use of renewable energy, and will teach it to future generations in a practical and experiential education, and how to live in these spaces.
School and city: in the central cities of Iran, a pattern of urban development is implemented, which have many similarities with each other. the school is an urban space and a space to stay, the living and resting spaces gave students a unique situation and encouraged them to live in the city of knowledge. therefore, the school was located at an important point on the main roads in the city, and sometimes it became a courtyard for the city.
City and School: The relationship between city and school takes a different form in the new definition. Since the school needs spatial security and the city should not be fully involved with the functions, the urban space platform comes to the roof and passes over the project. so that they can use natural ventilation and shading in warmer seasons
A Texture for the Future: the detailed physical plan and the scale of the site led us to look at this piece of land as part of the city. that the functions can form a part of the urban fabric and in this process the communication spaces are the fabric between the functions was the main idea of the design. However, due to climatic-functional reasons, this fabric pulls itself underground and invites the city to its roof. The school returns to the city as before, and this time with a new diagram.
Windcatcher of the Future: modern windcatcher have been used in this project, and these windcatcher act on the air flow inside the spaces, both ventilation and suction, and greatly reduce energy consumption in the project. On the other hand, windcatcher, as one of the most widely used engineering techniques in Iran, can be optimized and returned to public projects to reduce part of the energy consumption of public buildings. These windcatchers can provide air conditioning by using water.
Solar Panels: Since the urban roof surface of the project is exposed to the intense sun of hot and dry areas, it is very important to use a combined system of photovoltaic solar cells in a public project of this scale, because it can even generate additional electricity by creating suitable electrical power. enter the city network and help the city in this way. solar panels are one of the most important and practical sources of electricity production for a world without fossil fuels.
Relation Between Past and Modernity:
In this project, at the same time as we move towards modernity, the traces of the past are constantly with us. we examined the connection between the school and the city from the past and improved it according to today's society, and we did this through the shell that covers the school and opens ways for the flaneurs of the urban space. in tradition architecture of iran, schools have played an important role in traditional cities, and many times people from the city have been associated with them, and we have introduced this concept of school into our design in today's society, and at the same time we have studied the spatial patterns of the past and we used them in our design and also due to the power and technique of central cities in optimal ventilation by using wind catchers, we redesigned these wind catchers, therefore we preserved the old landscape and preserved the past concept of the school in today's and contemporary city.
A School in a Hot and Dry Climate: the issue that the climate injects into architecture may not be able to form the intellectual core at the beginning of the architectural work, but it can be an effective shaper for the design later on. The urban context in this climate has always experienced successful experiences in Iran. Basically, the texture of our desert and semi-desert cities has shown us bright signs of how to deal with this climate. From the urban context to arrangements such as windcatcher and cellars, single-room models, the type of evolution of this biological climate is always a place to discover wonders.
Definition of Space in the Future School: in the space strategy section, this school proposes another type of life in public buildings and does this by removing the closed spaces of communication and replacing them with functional spaces. On the one hand, the amount of energy consumed to provide cooling and heating of communication spaces and connection axes is a significant amount in this type of space, which is completely optimized in this project. corridor in classical schools is an important space, which has a completely different experience in this project. The experience of existing, running and dancing, and the formation of memories are formed in the school spaces, and the changes in the form of the spaces introduce children to the way of being and interacting in different spaces and give them the experience of different spaces from classical classes. This experience also happens in school yards that are divided and have different shapes, and children find themselves in yards with various forms. The borderline conditions for being outside and inside the classroom or yard has been faded out.