ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

PORTFOLIO CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

2013-2014

YEAR ONE ARCHITCTURAL STUDIES

KONG ANDY PADRAIG

TABLE OF CONENT SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE 3 Site Analysis 4 Precedent Studies 7 Design Concept 10 Plans 11-14 Elevation 15-16 Section 17 Kitchen 18-19 Perspectives 20-21 Physical Model 22

KINDERGARTEN 23 Site Analysis 24-27 Design Concept 28 Functional Diagrams 29-30 Geometry 31 Plans 32-35 Elevation 36-37 Section 38-39 Exploded View 40 Perspectives 41-44 Physical Model 45

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Single Family House -LOCATED AT KWOLOON TONG -LUXURIOS HOUSE DESIGNED FOR MEDIA ARTIST -COMPLEX FUNCTION FULFILLED DIFFERENT NEEDS OF FAMILY MEMBERS

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SITE ANALYSIS CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA

WEATHER Sun path • Overhead sun of the site is at noon.

• Sun light is concentrated at the site • Temperature is the highest during the day time especially at noon • Strong sun light comes from the Waterloo Road direction in the morning • Weak sun light comes from the Cumberland Road direction after 4pm Wind Direction • Summer, prevailing wind blows from North-eastern part of Hong Kong.

• In winter, prevailing wind blows from Southwestern part of Hong Kong.

• Wind is mainly blocked by the Lion Rock Hill from the northern part of the site.

• As Kowloon Tong is located in the central of Kowloon, it has the climate similar to other urban districts.

• Since Kowloon Tong has many low-rise households, the sunlight is easy to disperse. So that has a lower temperature than other urban districts especially in summer.

ORIGINAL SITE PERSPECTIVE

ORIGINAL SITE PLAN Orientation

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• The house is located between the Waterloo Road, Rutland Quadrant and Cumberland Road in the Kowloon City District • Where is South of the Beacon Hill, North of the Boundary street, East of Shek Kip Mei, and West of Kowloon Tsai and Lok Fu. Circulation • One-way road surrounding the site • People who learn driving always drive around the site • Many vehicles pass through the (Waterloo Road) during rush hour • Less people walking near the site (belongs to expensive low-rise residential area)

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VIEWS

SHADOW In the morning • The shadow is aways on the left • The Starfford Road is awayss in the shadow, as the sun path is not prevailing in that area

In the afternoon • The surrounding buildings are low-rise buildings • No blockage to the site view In the evening • The site has less impact causes by the shadow effect

VEGETATION At North: View to the Lion Rock At East: School, Waterloo Road

(school blocks the view from Waterloo Road)

At South: Facing the kindergarten At West: Residential (single family houses)

POLLUTION

Air pollution • Air pollution index is high due to the Waterloo Road • Respirable suspended particles and exhausted fumes like carbon dioxide emitted from the masive transport • Harmful to health in long-term • Some walls block the direct absorption of air pollutants into the houses for protection.

Noise pollution • Sound from venicies and human activities (eg kindergartens) •Affect the mood of residents and produce distrbance •Noise pollution is more serious and obvious in daytime •Light pollution is not obvious since the lack of low rise buildings and banner advertisement

•l ots of vegetation planted inside the private residential house, but not on the road.

• Artificial plants: trees, climbers, flora, etc.

• All pants are for aesthetic and domestic used. That means the vegetation may be cut one day.

• sparsely distributed in the site area • There are few trees planted along the roads • Plants are seen only in the garden and the parks which is for human leisure.

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SITE ANALYSIS Although a the site is a bit remoted from MTR, around 20-25 minutes of walking distance, there are still many acess towards and leaving the area.

ACCESS

Users can travel by bus to other major cities in Hong Kong just across the bridge.

Minibus are also aviliable near the site.

As the site is located at the pirvate area of Kowloon Tong, public transport are mostly near but not adjacent.

LAND USE

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PRECENDENT STUDIES BACKGROUND

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PHILOSOPHY De-constructivism (wikipedia)

BORN

Frank O. Gehry(Frank Owen Goldberg) February 28, 1929 (age 84) Toronto, Ontario, Canada

NATIONALITY

Canadian, American

ALMA MATER

University of Southern California

AWARDS

AIA Gold Medal National Medal of Arts Order of Canada Pritzker Prize Praemium Imperiale

NAME

PRACTICE

Gehry Partners, LLP

BUILDINGS

Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry Residence, Weisman Art Museum, Dancing House, Art Gallery of Ontario, EMP, Cinémathèque française, 8 Spruce Street, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati, Sirmai-Peterson House, Gehry House

Gehry’s style is firmly rooted in Deconstructivism, an architectural movement that gained popularity in the 1980s as a reaction to Postmodernism.

The movement drew its inspiration from literary theory pioneered by the philosopher Jacques Derida and early-20th-century art movements such as Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism.

The philosophy behind Deconstructivism is complex, but it essentially runs counter to the ideas of Postmodernism, which felt that architecture should remain simple and that the form of the building should be an obvious reflection of its function. Deconstructivist architecture, in contrast, embraces structural complexity, and the form of deconstructivist buildings results from a fragmentation and re-assembly of its structure. In many ways, Deconstructivism echoes Cubism in that it reduces a building to simple elements and then rearranges them, resulting in an energetic and dynamic abstraction of the original form.

In addition to Gehry, practitioners of Deconstructivism include Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi.

“

I never thought I was going to be who I am now.

I never presumed anything.

Frank Gehry

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CASE STUDY

Gehry Residence

Sirmai-Peterson Residence

The Gehry Residence is Frank Gehry's own house. It was originally an extension, designed by Gehry built and around an existing house. It makes use of unconventional materials such as chain link fences and corrugated steel.

“There ‘s a house in the valley called the Sirmai-Peterson house, and I think it’s the best house I’ve ever done. I’ve never seen it.”

Gehry describe Sirmai-Peterson house is one of the best designed single family house.

Address: Santa Monica, California

Address: Thousand Oaks, California

Architectural style: Deconstructivism Built: 1978

GEOMETRY

Architectural style: Deconstructivism

GEOMETRY

Built: 1985 East Elevation

North Elevation

The house include varieties of detached regtangles and polygons

North Elevation South Elevation

Parti Sketch

Parti Sketch

1.ENTRY 2.LIVING AREA 3.DINING AREA 4.KITCHEN 5.BEDROOMS 6.MASTER BEDROOMS SUITE 7.OUTDOOR

structural transperent

CIRCULATION

The house include varieties of detached regtangles and triangles

CIRCULATION

The house preformed linear circulation. The porch connects paths to different functional zones.

Summer Wind

1.ENTRY 2.KITCHEN 3.DINING AREA 4.LIVING AND MASTER BEDROOM 5.EXERCISE ROOM 6. BEDROOMS 7.GARAGE

Sun Path

N

N

WEATHER

Gehry gathered the windows and openings facing the east. It can introduce the most light and better the ventilation.

He love the natural environment, so he designed his

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structural transperent

The house preformed the circulation that porch connects paths to different functional zones.

WEATHER

N N

Summer Wind

Sun Path

Gehry gathered the windows and openings facing the east. It can introduce the most light and better the ventilation.

The client can enjoy the view up on the hill and the

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DESIGN STRATEGY

1. Connectoin between indoor and outdoor enivron- 2. Privacy Gehry designed the house in great consideration of privacy. ment “In quantities sufficient to fence in the moon”said Frank Gehry. He made good use of the natural daylight in his design. Both his own house and sirmai-Peterson’s house have windows facing the east. This can introduce more beautiful natural daylight into the house.

The connection betwen outdoor and indoor are brought throught his design. through the irrgular windows and openings, the daylight preformed interesting shading and lighting effect.

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Both his house and sirmai-Peterson’s house are for family uses, Gehry put high enphasis on the privacy.

The entrance connecting the porch is the major route to different functional zones in his design. But visitors cannot have a full view of the house as the porch is a sperated area from the house.

The is one of gehry’s design strategies in constructing single family houses.

3. Unfinished apperance Gehry’s style is outstanding in the mordern architechs.

Besides the doubled curves in huge facilities in his design, his design rarely include luxurios finishes at the outside.

The shape are also not in a continueos performance style Ghry as the most well-known De-constructivism.

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DESIGN CONCEPT

1. Giving a simple retangular outline of the house in the site plan

2. Adding a regtangluar void as the courtyard of the house

3. Adding two external geometry as the swimming pool under the structure into the heart of the house

4. Adding middle lines to the geometry

heart

connection

function

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5. Pushing the sides of the house creating a zig-zag form

6. Filling in the coner at the northen side creating a 9-like shape.

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ROOF PLAN IN SITE 1:500

N 0

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A' FLOOR PLAN 1:100

N GARAGE

BATHROOM

DINNING ROOM

BEDROOM

COURTYARD

BEDROOM

STUDYROOM

MULTIMEDIA ROOM

TERRANCE

UP OPEN KITCHEN BAR AREA

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B'

POOL

UP COLUMN LIVING ROOM

BEAM MASTER BEDROOM

TERRANCE

BATHROOM

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ENTRANCE

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STUDIO PLAN 1:100

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POOL DN

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Single Family House

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CIRCULATION PLAN 1:200

FLOOR CIRCULATION

STUDIO CIRCULATION

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SOUTH ELEVATION

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NORTH ELEVATION

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Single Family House EAST ELEVATION

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WEST ELEVATION

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- GLASS BEAM - GLASS BLOCK FLOOR

SECTION A - A'

LOAD BEARING WALL

0.0 M

STAIRS

FOUNDATION FOOTING

POOL

SECTION B - B' WINDOWS 0.0 M

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Single Family House

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5 MM CONCRETE 5MM WATER RESISITANT LAYER 30 MM PVC LAYER 10 MM CEILING FINISHES

GLASS BEAM

10 MM TILE 150 MM RC CONCRETE 10 MM TILE

10 MM WOOD FINISHES 5 MM SCREEDING 20 MM HARDEN CONCRETE

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EARTH

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PERSPECTIVES

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INSIDE STUDIO -GLASS BLOCK FLOOR

BACKYARD POOL -THE LUXURIOUS PRIVACY

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Single Family House PHYSICAL MODEL

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KINDERGARTEN -LOCATED AT KWOLOON CITY -MUTIPLE INTELLEGENCE FOCUSED DESIGN -COMPLEX FUNCTION FULFILLED DIFFERENT NEEDS OF CHILDREN

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SITE ANALYSIS SITE PLAN

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WINTER WIND

MUNSANG COLLEGE PRIMARY SECTION

JUNCTION ROAD

CLIMATE

CAMPUS PLAYGROUND

POLLUTION Serious air pollution as Junction Road is next to the site -Less windows in the western side (avoid kids breathing in exhausted gas that harms their health) Noise pollution from busy traffic (although the kids will produce noise when they are playing, the teacher still need a quiet environment for teaching the kids and for the kid’s “short sleeping time” for rest)

MUNSANG COLLEGE KINDERGARTEN SECTION

NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION

SITE

GREENERY No need to plant more trees as it is located inside the park (The Carpenter Road Park) -Save place for other use

DUMBARTON ROAD SANG CHEONG MANUFACTURING COMPANY INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS

SEAR ROGERS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - PENINSULA

SUMMER WIND ASSEMBLY OF GOD CALEB CHURCH

BUILDINGS

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30

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CARMEN GARDEN

SCALE 1:1000

SITE SKETCH

HOLY FAMILY CANOSSIAN SCHOOL

BUBBLEYO FROYO CAFE

TOPOGRAPHY N

N

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It is located in an open area (greenery/ park)

SUN PATH

VEGETATION

Hot in summer as the sub-tropical monsoon climate (Hot Wet weather and Heat Island Effect ) Rainy in summer -provide more covered area for activities in bad weather.

It has good ventilation as there are many trees surrounding the site. (Trees can provide better ventilation as more air movement appears)

FUK LO TSUN ROAD

GAR FOOK COURT

JUNCTION ROAD

GRAMPIAN ROAD

LEGEND

FUK LO TSUN ROAD

KOWLOON CITY

VIEWS

SHADING

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VIEWS Our site is located in Carpenter Park, Kowloon City where Tong Laus are standing around.Therefore,views are not blocked.

On the other hand, most of the land surrounding our site are greenery which makes people feel comfortable when studying there.

-Openings are available to put freely to the building. As User can experience multible views from different aspect of the site.

SHADING Due to the nearby buildings are low-rise building,therefore,sun light can reach our site through out the whole day and no shading effect would occur.

Can utilize the natural daylight as the kindergarten run in morning to afternoon(9am-4pm), can consider to make good use of the sunlight.

However, the site is located inside the park, some trees many block sunlight in the east and south side of the site.

-Windows are suggested to be bigger or put higher to promote more daylight into the building.

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SITE ANALYSIS

CIRCULATION

MASSING IN VICINITY

N

N

MUNSANG COLLEGE PRIMARY SECTION

There are dense populations in the nearby area as the dense residential land use. (e.g. Mei Tung Estate, Comfort Court) -Busy traffic along the Junction Road -Noise emitted from vehicles (the horns)

JUNCTION ROAD

CAMPUS PLAYGROUND MUNSANG COLLEGE KINDERGARTEN SECTION

SITE CROSSROAD

SITE

DUMBARTON ROAD SANG CHEONG MANUFACTURING COMPANY INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS

SEAR ROGERS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - PENINSULA

FUK LO TSUN ROAD

SAFETY ISLAND

Nearby housing estates, primary and secondary schools and the shopping malls -Create noise by passers-by, st u d e nt s f ro m p r i m a r y a n d secondary school and the household.

FUK LO TSUN ROA

LEGEND

JUNCTION ROAD

GRAMPIAN ROAD

D

ASSEMBLY OF GOD CALEB CHURCH

GAR FOOK COURT

VEGETATION

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BUILDINGS

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CARMEN GARDEN

HOLY FAMILY CANOSSIAN SCHOOL

BUBBLEYO FROYO CAFE

LOOSE

LAND USE AND ACTIVITIES IN NEIGHBOURHOOD N

People can get access to the site mainly from the park nearby -Entrance and exits are better located to the north or east side of the site.

DENSE

N

facilities include a cycling track, a children's playground, an elderly fitness station, a 7-a-side hardsurface soccer pitch, 4 basketball courts and 2 volleyball courts.

Residential buildings in the region mainly due to the former Kai Tak Airport nearby, the area has been building height re st r i c t i o n s u nt i l a f te r t h e relocation of the Kai Tak Airport, there is a growing high-rise buildings built.

There is only one commercaial center near the site.

-The majority of students and parents are supposed to have there shopping and dinning there -People are either heading or leaving school to the north-east of the site.

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TRANSPORTATION N

Parking Spaces As the site is located beside Junction Road which is a busy main road that cars cannot be parked because it is illegal. Also, the area of the site is such small and there is not enough spaces for constructing a car park in the site. So that would be far away for parents to park their car for a moment and cause inconvenience.

Parents waiting places The area of the site is limited, there may not have enough extra places inside the site for set up a parents waiting places for parents to take their children back from school. The parents may need to wait in the Junction Road Park and affect the park users.

Access and transportation -Good accessibility -Near many bus stop and minibus stop that can access conveniently to the site from other districts -MTR station ( To Kwa Wan Station) of the Shatin to Central Link will finish the construction in 2018, easy travel to Hong Kong Island, New Territories and save time -2 main car parks which near the site for parking -metered parking spaces along the road with residential building created with octopus card parking meters, parents can have parking in convenient way.

Facilities -Commercial many focus in catering service, provide to place for people have food and drink. Shopping center ( 80 m on the south-east side of the site) provides retailing service.

-Recreational land use such as cycling park, children’s playground, 7-a-side hard surface soccer pitch, basketball count, volleyball counts, etc (Sports ground and swimming pool 170m on the west side of the site) -Kids can have sport in leisure time, kindergarten also can host some outdoor activities like small-scale sport day. As those facilities are near the site, it can reduce the risks to have dangers by long travelling distance and have better security.

-Other facilities like elderly fitness station and churches. Kindergarten can host some volunteer work like visit the elderly nursing as a kind of moral education.

- Transportation open in all direction, accessible from all sides.

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KINDERGARTEN

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

According to Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist, intelligence is: 1) The ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture, 2) a set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in life, and 3) the potential for finding or creating solutions for problems, which involves gathering new knowledge.

Gardner, Howard (2000). Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century. Basic Books Inc. ISBN 978-0-465-02611-1.

PROPOSED FUNCTIONAL ROOMS

THEME - TOY BLOCKS

repetition implies the improtance (With priority order of space usage) OUTDOOR PLAYGROUND INDOOR PLAYGROUND HALL LIBRARY CLASS ROOMS ART ROOM MUSIC ROOM MEETING ROOM

Toy blocks are one of the most frequently used teaching materials in kindergartens. Using overlapping shapes and geometry to imply the interactions between 9 multiple intelligences.

The supersized structure with simple shape also imply the infinite imaginations and development of children. sketches showing the over lapping space in plans and 3D views

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ADJACENCY MATRICES

BUBBLE DIAGRAM

ENTRANCE LOBBY

LAUNDRY

INDOOR PLAYGROUND

CLASSROOMS STORAGE

LIBRARY

CLASSRM

ACTIVITY ROOMS ART ROOM/ MUSIC ROOM

RESTING ROOM

HALL

OFFICE

RESTING ROOM

CLASSRM

LOBBY

TOILET

TOILETS

TEACHER ROOM

LAUNDRY

HALL

MEETING ROOM

ACTIVITY ROOM CLASSRM

OUTDOOR PLAYGROUND

TOILET

KITCHEN

INTERNAL OFFICE

OUTDOOR PLAYGROUND

MEETING ROOM TEACHERS ROOM

LINE

KITCHEN

BUBBLE

DIRECT (NEAR)

1/F

INDIRECT (CORRIDOR)

G/F

INDIVIDUAL BUILDING

STORAGE NEARBY

TOILET

CLASSRM

INDOOR PLAYGROUND

ADJACENT

LIBRARY

ENTRY

NOT ADJACENT

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KINDERGARTEN AREA AND FUNCTIONS DISTRIBUTION

2D PLAN IN SCALE 1:100

3D PLAN IN SCALE 1:100

3D VIEW & ELEVATIONS IN SCALE 1:100

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GEOMETRY AND SHAPE

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KINDERGARTEN N

SITE PLAN 1:500

DUMBARTION ROAD

FUK L O TSU

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JUNCTION ROAD

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:100 B

D OUTDOOR PLAYGROUND

STORAGE LAUNDARY

REST AREA READING CONER

HALL

UP

REST AREA WAITINGROOM

UP

ENTERANCE

A COVERED PLAYGROUND

POOL C RESTROOM

RESTROOM

CLASSROOM

CLEANING AREA

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KINDERGARTEN N

UPPER FLOOR PLAN 1:100

B

D STORAGE

BALCONY

MULTI FUNCTION ROOM ART ROOM ACTIVITIES ROOM

TEACHERS' ROOM

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COVERED PLAYGROUND

RESTING ROOM

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STORAGE 0

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N CIRCULATION PLAN 1:200

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KINDERGARTEN SOUTH ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

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EAST ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

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KINDERGARTEN SECTION A - A'

SECTION B - B'

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SECTION D - D'

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KINDERGARTEN EXPLODING VIEW

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KINDERGARTEN

ABOVE: UPPER HALL BELOW: ACTIVITIES ROOM

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HALL

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KINDERGARTEN

POOL

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PHYSICAL MODEL 1:100

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