Master of architecture-Studio 01- Verticalising high rise school-Zhe Li-Unimelb

JOURNAL OF VERTICALISING

HIGH RISE SCHOOL Studio 01

Isabel Lasala

ZHE LI 1106500

Introduction

Content

What is a high rise school? What are the pros and cons to have a comprehensive building on a narrow site but can go taller?

Playgrounds in the air? Interior playground? Or even challenge the boundary of outside and inside play?

Atriums function as a circulation part and another kind of playground?

Site Analysis

How and where do different group of students play and communicate with each other?

Precedent study Proposal development Mid Review Ground Floor planning Facade and Structure Landscape Design Final Review

Site Analysis Site Location

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Field trip No.1-Week 1

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- A place with covenience transportation and good view: Multiple access to public transportation; 4km to the city of Melbourne; 2.5km to the bay;

Chapel vs Skateboard court A site of confliction and combinition

Site Analysis Public Transportation & Access

Greenspace

Bus/tram stop Railway station Tram route Site

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250m

Green space Site

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250m

Site Analysis Building Heights

Land use

30-50m

Commercial

25-30m

Public use

12-25m

Service

6-12m

Residential

0-6m

Site

Site Analysis Shadow and View study

Keeping the same height as the residential buildings to the north provides a proper massing in this community and clear views overlooking the commercial areas to the west and the gardens and lower residential areas to the south.

Site Analysis Field trip No.2-Week 2 Timeline and activities

On a sunny day around 4-5pm, much more people and more kinds of activities(wallking a dog/ exercising in the sports facilities in the park/or just sitting on the benches...)

Topography and activities

Various outdoor activities happen in the up and downs

Precedent - Pranham Square

Artificial topography landscape design

Empty stairs vs Fully occupied grass slop

Precedent - YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten / MAD Architects

Student : 390 Age: Pre Level: 2

Key points to take: - A topography landscape strategy that provides various kinds of play.

Precedent - Hongling Experimental Primary School / O-office Architects

Key points to take: - An underground stadium with natural light access and ventilation

Precedent - Roskilde Festival Folk High School /MVRDV

Key points to take: - Box in Box concept The gaps and communal space left by the different size of rooms forms a central atrium space to be the heart of the building.

Interesting colour codes for different programme of activity rooms, reflected in the material choices and interior arrangements.

Precedent - Open Air School | Amsterdam | 1927 /Jan Duiker This is a precedent of a long history but currently we can rethink open air spaces during a Covid time.

Key points to take: - Open air classroom ( Natural Light & Ventilation, Street View )

Precedent - Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University Information

Key points to take: - An outdoor atrim garden accessing natural light and ventilation - Two departed parts of building in a intergrated envolope

Proposal

Precedent & Concept Precedent - Smart School | CEBRA Architecture | Russia | 2015

- Classrooms are classified by activities rather than disciplines; - Activities that have similar features or requirements can share one space, so that multifunctional classrooms are applied; - Different activities combine into one specific plaza; - From small plaza to large district, all facing the central outdoor garden;

BIOLOGY

PHYSICS CHEMISTRY

Science Square

GROWTH LAB

CINEMA/ AUDITORIUM

LIBRARY/ MEDIA

SCHOOL KITCHEN

GYMNASTICS

Performance Square

VISUAL ARTS

PRATICE ROOMS

MUSIC/ DRAMA

CAFE

BIOLOGY Workshop Square

Key points to take: - Personal learning preference - Classification model based on Activities Student : 1040 Age: 3-18 Pre - Y12 Site: 200,000 ㎡ =100x current site

Plaza concept

CRAFT

PHYSICS CHEMISTRY

Science Square

GROWTH LAB

CINEMA/ AUDITORIUM

LIBRARY/ MEDIA

SCHOOL KITCHEN

GYMNASTICS

Performance Square

VISUAL ARTS

PRATICE ROOMS

MUSIC/ DRAMA

WOODWORK

CAFE

CULTURE SERVICE

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Workshop Square

WOODWORK

CRAFT

Proposal

Plans- Week 3

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Y3-Y6

BALL PIT

WOODEN SAND

TOY ZONE

COMPUTER

Private/ Special care ROBOT/ PROGRAM

BIOLOGY PHYSICS LAB

Science Square

Office/ Adminstration

Brief 1.0 - developed from Precedent

PLANT GARDEN

OPEN TO PUBLIC CLIMING WALL

Sports Square

PLAYGROUND

CINEMA/ AUDITORIUM

LIBRARY/ MEDIA

TABLE TENNIS

BASKETBALL COURT

GYMNASTICS/ DANCING

Performance Square

VISUAL ARTS

INSTRUMENT PRATIC

CHORUS/ DRAMA

Original Class

SCHOOL KITCHEN

Workshop Square

SUPERMARKET

CAFE

PAPER/CERAMIC CRAFT

IMITATIVE ENGINEERING LAB

Notes: - Priority- Students ＞ Community; Supermarket may be inapropriate - Labs/Craft workshops/Drama can be turned into programmes that are more friendly and suitable for primary school students; - Rethink about the possibility of combining the activities with play.

Student : 500 Group : Pre - Y2 (4 classes each)/ Y3- Y6(3 each) Districts : Pre / Junior / Sports / Performance / Science / Workshop / Library / Administration/ Servie Acticities/ Classrooms : 15 + 24 (4x3+3x4) Supposed that there is a chance for the studentsto choose classes on their own.

Brief 2.0

Student : 420=20x21 classes Age : Pre - Y6 Group : Pre - Y2 / Y3- Y6 (3 classes each) Districts : Pre / Senior / Arts / Library / Administration/ Servie Acticities/ Classrooms : 10 + 21 (3x7) Rationalize and simp

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Proposal

Plans- Week 4

Preclasses classes= =PPY1 Y1Y2 Y23X3 3X3 Pre Music/Artsclasses classes= =Y3456 Y34561x1 1x1 Music/Arts Library---Mediahall? hall?

Library---Media Labclasses= classes=Y3456 Y34561x1 1x1 Lab Flexibleseating seating Sportsclasses= classes=Y3456 Y34561x1 1x1Flexible Sports

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NOTES: -Priority & Circulation - That 12 levels of transfer from classrooms to playground is too far ; -let the students have easy access to play; -Playground does not have to be standard, it can be sloped, it can even wrap around the whole buildings (running tracks).

6F6F-Music/Arts Music/Artsclasses classes+ + Library Library

GFGF-canteen canteen

7F7F-Lab Labclasses classes+ + Library Library

1F-Mini-football 1F-Mini-football

2F-Basketball 2F-Basketball / Badminton / Badminton

3F3F-Music/Arts Music/Arts Pre Preclasses classes

8F8F-Lab Labclasses classes+ + Library Library

9F9F-Lab Labclasses classes+ + Sports Sportsclasses classes

10F10F-Lab Labclasses classes+ + Sports Sportsclasses classes

4F4F-Music/Arts Music/Arts Pre Preclasses classes

11F11F-Lab Labclasses classes+ + Sports Sportsclasses classes

5F5F-Music/Arts Music/Arts Pre Preclasses classes

12F12F-Sports Sportsclasses classes

Proposal

Rethink the size of a classroom & Design a multi-function classroom module

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Circle

Seminar

Precedent- Hongling Experimental Primary School

Multiple Groups

Groups of 4

A 9mx12m Flexible classroom module

Proposal

Plans- Week 5

-1F-Basketball / Badminton -1F-Basketball / Badminton GF- canteen FTF 8.5M(8.3 Standard) FTF 8.5M(8.3 Standard) FTF 4.5M+3M

GF- canteen 1F- canteen FTF 4.5M+3MFTF 4.5M+3M

Canteen

Cafe

1F- canteen 2F-Playground FTF 4.5M+3M FTF 6M

Canteen

Cafe Kitchen

Lobby

Administration

3F-Y3456 + Lab

3F-Y3456 + Lab4F-Y3456 + Lab

Lab

Lab

Lab & computer

Lab

Lab

Lab

Lab & computerLab & computer

Storage

Storage

Kitchen

AdministrationAdministration

4F-Y3456 + Lab5F-Y2 + Music

5F-Y2 + Music 6F-Y1 + Music

Office Lab

Playground

Administration Administration

Office

Office

Playground

Lobby

Y2 Classroom

Office

2F-Playground FTF 6M

NOTES: Rethink about the entrance. Maybe move the lobby to the first level with wide stairs as the entry from the ground level.

Rethink about the size and location of the playground storage .

Rethink about the form of the playground. Formal/ Informal ?

Try to resolve the circulation from the classrooms to the rooftops with outdoor ramps or stairs.

Lab

Office Climbing net

exhibition

Office Lab

Y2 Classroom

Stage

Lab & computer Music & practice

Office Climbing net

exhibition Stage

Y1 Classroom

exhibition

Stage Practice Practice

Music & practice Music & practice

Administration

6F-Y1 + Music

Y1 Classroom

Office

7F-Pre + Music

Pre

Office

exhibition

7F-Pre + Music 8F-Library

8F-Library

Pre

Office

Library/ Media Center

Drama Chorus Stage Practice Visual art Dancing Practice

Drama Chorus Visual art Dancing

Music & practice Music & practice

Music & practice

Library/ Media Center

Mid Review Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Programme Diagram

Till mid presentation I mainly focused on massing design and the basic programme distribution.

The concept is to make different kinds of outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces for students to play, in the stacking and shifting of the boxes and voids.

Each box is containing classrooms and activity rooms as developed from the previous brief.

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And two basic circulation systems with departed stairs/ramps for study/play is introduced in this stage of design.

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Service Office Activity

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Mid Review Level 4 Plan

Level 6 Plan

Level 7 Plan

Circulation Diagram

Library Playground

Pre-2

Art plaza Playground

Y3-6

Adiministration

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Underground stadium

Mid Review

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Circulation

Mid Review Perspectives from Malven Road

Mid Review Photo of model

Reflection Notes

Design to go

- About the Canteen: Is it necessary to arrange a canteen here in a primary school building? Is there any possibility to create a more comfortable and active space for children to have a quick lunch and save time to play? Where do them store or recycle lunchbox?

- Sunshade study on the current massing - Rearrange the classroom areas for better access to play and sunlight - Think about the journay during a day, a week, a year...

- Think about people's experience and human scale( scale for different ages of children) - Landscape design and programme design for the open rooftop/ playground areas. (previous topography study involved) - Timetable arrangement and time control.

- About the classroom areas: Is there a way to combine study areas with play areas rather than depart them in seperated spaces? is it possible to add atriums, ramps or stairs, landings rather than simple corridors between the classrooms? _ About the entrance: Be careful with the entrance design because it needs to held 500 people for a short stay and get distributed to different classrooms in a rush. Rethink about the size, position and circulation.

- About the massing: Rethink about the relationship of the surrounding environment and the overall school massing. Rethink about the height of each void and the function of the covered playground with no walls.

-About the site: How to respond to the architecutral style of the site? especially the chapel off chapel. Be conscious of the surrounding building heights when designing the height of each level. For example it is better to make one rooftop playground aligned with the roof of the building right next to the school.

-Keep in mind of the priority Students vs Community; Play vs study.

Rearranging the classroom areas Precedent - Garden inbetween classrooms

Strategy - Small playground/ leisure space in between classrooms W7 attempts Suggestion: Break down the classrooms can be a good idea but it is unnecessary to add extra long ramps or spiral stairs in the middle of the corridor.

W8 Keep exploring different layouts

SHIBUKAWA EDER Architects, Kurt Kuball · SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEULENGBACH

Ground Floor Planning

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W8 Adjusted the stairs and level heights, enlarged the entrance lobby to make it more welcome to the street.

Rearranging the entrance GF- Lobby FTF 3.6M

1F- Canteen FTF 3.6M 420seats

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GF- Lobby Standard Basketball court H>7m 4.8+2.4=7.2m

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W9 Keep enlarging the entrance platform and stairs, also make use of the eastern facade as an entrance.

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Enlarged the lobby.

Suggestion : not to seperate the canteen and the lobby

Facade and Structure

Staircase Lift

Lift

Library

Library

Classroom Pre12

Lab

Classroom Pre12

Art Classroom 3456

Classroom 3456

Adiministration

canteen Stadium

EAST

NORTH

Lift Staircase

Lift Staircase

Library

Library Toilets

Toilets

Toilets

Toilets

Toilets Toilets Toilets Classroom 3456

Toilets

Toilets

Classroom Pre12

Inspiration Double face facade

Lab

Lab

Art

Art

This remind me of the cultural icon of our site - A historical chapel with a modern school, which can have contrast as well as consistency.

WEST

Ramps

Toilets Toilets

Toilets

Toilets

Toilets

Adiministration

This is a commericial building located right near out site, with the a Victorian style northern and western facade(facing the street), and another two grey modern facades that hiden behind the Victorian street front.

canteen Stadium

canteen Stadium

Adiministration canteen Stadium SOUTH

W 9-10 Try to explore the double face idea.

Think about which facade fs more representing the street or which facade is facing more to the pedestrians.

Look back on the site photos I was reminded that lourvers might be a possible way of representing the original architecture language of the site.

Current West facade

Building on the South

Facade and Structure Precedents of arch facades - Early attempts

W 7-8 Tried to rationalize the shape of arches and make them regulated, both in forms and position. Elevation sketches were applied to test different arch layouts. An elevation Grid system gradually merged through this process.

MID The shape of Arch is mostly inspired by the chapel, the Victorian style shopping street and the skateboard court.

Facade and Structure Precedents of arch facades - Toyoito TAMA Art University Arches that have different spacing but same scale, which help keep consistency of the whole architecture. Structural columns and beams hidden in this twisted arch grid systems.

Facade and Structure W12 Adjusting the grid and rationalize cantilever.

Original facade with a 4.5m /6m cantilever is not quite proper for keeping the shape of arch, which nornally need to apply a truss structure rather. To keep the arch facade language I decided to move forward with a shorter cantilever of 3 meters on both sides.

Adjusted grid : 6x9 or 9x9m with 3m cantilever on either sides.

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CH=2.400m / 3600

Landscape Design How and Where to play As our aim in this studio is to explore different ways of play, so in my school design there are three kinds of playground is included: e x t e r i o r, s e m i - e x t e r i o r, interior.

Precedent study on different kinds of playground are applied in this process, while scale and age limit also need to be take in account.

Hanging appliance which need a roof structure or support can be applied to semi- outdoor spaces.

Rather than outdoor large bublble playgrounds, small bubble and net can be attractive as an interior playground.

Landscape Design

My original start to make a landscape design is to simulate the topography of the current site. Whiel after certain anallysis I found that the scale might be too big.

These are some inspirations of another kind os topography landscape.

A mini climbing net tower could be applied in the double-height exterior playgournd in my current design.

Final Reviews Floating Box/ Multi-level Playgrounds/Double face facade

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