Creative Architects 2019
Motion School
TEAM MOVIMIENTO PROPOSED PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR IGBOKODA COMMUNITY
Design Brief Development The Challenge| Our Response | Scarcity and Waste | Design Principles
THE PROBLEM OF SCARCITY AND WASTE It’s quite funny how we complain of scarcity and yet generate so much waste. The way we see it, waste is what you call something when you have no idea what to do with it. The fact that waste exists anywhere is more a testament to our lack of imagination than it is to the inherent value of any material.
“architecture should only last as long as a society’s commitment to it” (Louis Kahn)
MOTION SCHOOL: L’ECOLE ROULEAU CREATING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES THROUGH CIRCULAR LEARNING. #ARCHITECTURE IN MOTION #ARCHITECTURE OF GROWTH #ARCHITECTURE OF TIME #ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE #ARCHITECTURE FOR THE MAJORITY.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
The conventional educational structure involves a linear method of learning that encourages uniformity, conformity and stereotypes. Students are often like raw materials with different aggregate sizes and features passing through a factory’s conveyor belt to eventually look all the same. Upon leaving the system and facing brutal societal demands, we are much like old dogs having to learn new tricks; all that algebra goes out the window. This system relies heavily if not completely on the teachers for impartation of skills and knowledge, thereby stifling the creativity and possible contributions that pupils could produce. It often rejects originality, uniqueness and eccentricity. A system that’s supposed to prepare us for change is incredibly resistant and antithetical to change.
THE CONSEQUENCES
Linear growth compromises on inter and intra-generational equity. The linear educational system gives birth to a linear economy; a material and energy intensive system that generates waste and creates pseudo-scarcity. The world’s current economic model is largely based on linear ‘take–make– dispose’ processes that rely on large quantities of cheap, easily accessible materials and energy, and create large volumes of waste. This creates a Consumer culture that has developed a prejudice against repair (as a sign of poverty). We are worried about overpopulation when overconsumption is the real enemy. we hope to take advantage of this negative trends and use them to advance the frontiers of sustainability.
“If you have a purpose for it, it’s no longer waste-Omar Freilla scarcity is a socially and economically constructed condition – there is enough food in the world, it is just in the wrong place. There is enough housing in the developed world, just in the wrong ownership. scarcity in an architectural context is much more than just an actual lack of material, space or energy. Rather, scarcity is revealed as socially, economically and politically constructed and requires a discussion of patterns of creation, consumption and behavior.
DESIGN PRINCIPLEs COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Utilizing local materials and creating involvement within the community. ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Learning spaces should be able to be reconfigured to various teaching styles and student needs. Flexibility is key. CULTURAL RELEVANCE The design must celebrate and reflect the local culture, with a balance of modernity and tradition. MODULARITY A design that could be adapted easily to different site conditions and varying programs. With consideration to growth over time. COST EFFICIENT Practicality and innovation with consideration to a modest budget. There is no denying the fact that even the societal trends have proven transient at best, yet we all crave for the quality of permanence. As a result of this conflict, our idea of permanence needs a reality check. We often think of permanence in terms of durability of materials but Value is embedded in the ideas and not the material reality. It is not by creating monuments of concrete, steel and glass. By making buildings as expensive monuments, we guarantee that only the social, political, and economic elite can pay for them, and that they thus embody their values and priorities. “Permanence is not a matter of the materials you use. Permanence is whether people love your building”-Shigeru Ban.
We should therefore favour an evolutionary approach where owners can change a building over time to meet their needs, and the architect’s role is just to facilitate this process. Rather than being artists of space architects need to become artists of time, using the conceptual model of layers of a building – site, structure, skin, services, space plan and stuff, each of which has a different timescale and can be maintained and replaced to suite its individual needs.
OUR RESPONSE: CIRCULAR ECONOMY BY CIRCULAR LEARNING BY CIRCULAR ARCHITECTURE A circular economy aims for the elimination of waste through the superior design of materials, products, systems and business models. (Ellen MacArthur Foundation). Circular learning aims for a more inclusive learning process that actively engage the both the teachers and students’ abilities, focusing on teamwork rather than individual approaches. Circular design aims to create a scenario where owners can change a building over time to meet their needs, by thinking in systems and creating a closed loop in terms of terms of energy and material use. This simply involves figuring out how to invest as little material as we can in any given structure, and then make sure that it can be reused as efficiently as possible. It is not by creating monuments of concrete and steel.
THE CHALLENGE The challenge is to design a school, and the focus should be on the experience of the students and the teachers alike. The educational approach should focus largely on the facilitation of experiential and play-based learning by the students, as well as the development of a collaborative and open environment for its teachers. The proposed solution should reject the traditional method of linear teaching with the instructor as the sole source of knowledge, favoring a student-centered approach.
Site Plan
3D Siteplan| Droneshot | Ilesha High school | outdoor recration & sporting
igbokoda
Igbokoda, a riverine community of the ilaje
people, along the Nigerian coastline bordering the atlantic ocean. Despite the fact that this community is an oil-producing area with enormous economic and tourism potential as a coastal town, she has suffered grave neglect in terms of infrastructure. Besides, the problem of saltwater incursion and sea level rise due to global warming The incidence of flooding often truncates daily activities in affected communities creating a nasty situation and leaving the entire economy in limbo; businesses grounded, schools closed. Creating resilience in this kind of situations definitely equates to creating resilient buildings that can still function during the incidence of flooding ensuring daily activities continue with minimal disruption. Undoubtedly, the process of resilience involves using available resources (natural and human), cultural traditions and societal values of the host community rather than intrusive and expensive imports. Though a fishing community by necessity, there is considerable engagement in lumbering lending great aid to an ancient craft of the community: boat building. This makes the community a natural habitat for building with wood and its allied product.
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A BUILDING ALMOST COMPLETELY CONSTRUCTED FROM LOCALLY SOURCED TIMBER UTILIZING THE WORKMANSHIP OF LOCAL CARPENTERS AND BUILDINGS UNDER EXPERT QUALITY CONTROL AND SUPERVISION.
THE TRADITIONAL VERNACULAR BUILDINGS ARE TIMBER STRUCTURES BUILT ON STILTS UTILIZING POLE FOUNDATIONS. Thus, they utilized available resources to create resilient buildings but as expected, modernization has created a shift from these traditional methods to import materials and technology. Therefore, one of the main ideals of this project creating a dialectic balance between traditional and modernity. This school will feature the traditional structures raised on wooden stilts utilizing composite pole foundations.
Building Ideology Concepts| Axonometric view | Building Development
GENERIC BUILDING SHAPE
WITH COURTYARD
FLOOR LEVELS
PRINCIPLES OF
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
ROTATION
FRAME STRUCTURE
FLOOR DECKS
As proposed by the Ellen MacArthur foundation, they include: Design out waste. Waste does not exist when the biological and technical components (or ‘materials’) of a product are designed by intention to fit within a biological or technical materials cycle, designed for disassembly and repurposing.
INTERNAL WALLS
Build resilience through diversity. Modularity, versatility and adaptivity are prized features that need to be prioritized in an uncertain and fast-evolving world.
FACADE CLADDING
Think in ‘systems’. The ability to understand how parts influence one another within a whole, and the relationship of the whole to the parts, is crucial.
Work towards using energy from renewable sources. Any circular story should start by looking into the energy involved in the production process.
DESIGNED FOR DISASSEMBLY
“architecture under construction is much better than when it is finished”- (Frank Gehry)
A structure that can be completely deconstructed, disassembled and repurposed using the same materials and components reused for another project that is more needed by the community. bolted connections and friction joints are preferred to nailed or glued connections to facilitate easy disassembly. Flat trusses are used for easy integration of service pipes and conduits. This approach will also facilitate the speed of construction.
STRUCTURAL EFFICIENCY
Pole foundations elevate timber structures above the ground plane, requiring minimal excavation thereby preserving the natural features and existing drainage patterns of the site. this is very useful in igbokoda, a coastal town susceptible to periodic flooding.
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
FLOOR PLATES
PARTTIONING SYSTEM
CLADDING SYSTEM
Oblique Floor Plans 3D floor plans | Axonometric view | floor plan layout | anthropometrics
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Ground Floor Plan 1. Entrance 2. Conference room 3. Secretary 4. Waiting area 5. Head teacher 6. Security room 7. Staff resource 8. Prayer room 9. Common Space/Assemblies 10. Sleeping room 11. Kindergarten
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First Floor Plan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Primary 3 Primary 4 Nursery 1 Nursery 2 Primary 1 Primary 2
Second Floor Plan 1. Computer room 2. Laboratory 2 3. Primary 5 4. Primary 6 5. Laboratory 1 6. Library
Example Class
EXAMPLE CLASS
“before we can build great things, we must first build great teams” Joshua Kai Instead of sitting in linear rows facing the instructor and the instructor alone, students sit in groups, learn as a group, work as a group then succeed as a group. Learn to interact, specialize, create, help each other, share ideas and things. This discourages individuality in learning and achievement but encourages team spirit; team first not me first, society above the individual. This system could attack social inequality and stratification at its soft centre; the formative stages of tomorrow’s leaders.
BUILT FOR COMMUNITY
Why use wood: beyond material efficiency; celebrating the local context Wood is readily available, can be sourced locally with quality control and constructed by local carpenters under expert supervision
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3D Section
3D cross section | Spatial Analysis | example Class
Tensile Bamboo canes or slats from locally grown bamboo plants are treated and woven as mats and used as the façade (outer skin). This can even be a vocational and craft learning opportunity for the students. The mats can also be painted to create a stimulating atmosphere. Internal partition (walls) are joined with hinged steel plates to facilities reconfiguration of spaces for flexibility and modularity.
Section/Details Section | Axonometric blow-out | Joints details
WOOVEN BAMBOO CLADDING BLOWOUT
SECTION SUSPENDED FLOOR SYSTEM 400X150 BUILT UP HARDWOOD BEAM
75X75 HARDWOOD STRUTS FOR CROSS BRACING
25X300M BATTEN FLOORBOARDS WITH TONGUE AND GROOVE JOINTS
400X150 BUILT UP HARDWOOD POST
75X100 HARDWOOD FLOOR JOISTS
50X50 FLOOR NOGGINS GRID
50X600MM WOODEN FLAT TRUSSES
10MM THICK FLAT TRUSS STEEL PLATES 12MM THICK STAINLESS STEEL GUSSET PLATES FOR BOLTED CONNECTIONS Motion School Creative Architects 2019
12MM THICK STEEL GUSSET PLATES
12MM THICK PLYWOOD AS CEILING BOARD
75MM THICK EPS PANELS FOR ACOUSTIC INSUALTION
The green atrium space having tall ornamental bamboo, living walls, rocks, pond/pool forms a green core for the building keeping the pupils and teachers always connected with nature. The stairs flying right through the atrium on the upper floors allows for splendid views like a view from atop the trees. The glazed roof pours natural sunlight down in rays through the trees and leaves. Inverted lobby provides an unusual mode of circulation that draws activity away from the atrium and also provides acoustic control Screen faรงade for blurred boundaries between interior and exteriors. An efficient bamboo faรงade to shade the exposed parts from solar gain.
View of the exterior Bamboo facade shot from the football field
View from School Entrance
View from Atrium
View through Ext. Lobby
Motion School “Even the earth is round, goes around and turns around”
TEAM MOVIMIENTO AJIBOWU MICHAEL PRESENTATION SHEETS, PRESENTATION ILLUSTRATIONS AND IMAGES, 3D RENDERING AND POSTPRODUCTION SOFTWARE USED: SKETCHUP, V-RAY SKETCHUP, ENSCAPE SKETCHUP, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ADOBE INDESIGN BAYODE JUDE CONCEPT DESIGN, BUILDING PROGRAM, 3D MODELLING, STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND DETAIL DESIGN SOFTWARE USED: ARCHICAD TAYO OBE 3D ANIMATION SOFTWARE USED: LUMION