Post by humanarch on May 30, 2016 7:30:19 GMT -6
ENTRY : #496535714
CANOPY TREE SCHOOLDesign team : HUMAN architecte (France)
Alain PARIS, Céline GRIS, Abdenour BOUARIFI, Juliette THIANT, Anastasiya NASYROVA, Alice MORTAMET, Pierre DESCUBES
Project description :
Creating a school class is such a responsibility. It’s about creating a place where young people are gonna start to build their future. In this project, we are questioning: how the daily can be used in a different way to form innovating and high quality spaces. We expect to start a change of perception, a change of vision on what surround Abetenim people who will live or cross these spaces. The Basketry skill is used as a roof filter mesh, earth becomes walls, compressed bricks or outside excavated classroom, bamboo becomes structure, palm trees become ropes or braiding filter panels… All these materials serve a logic to an optimal thermal and acoustic comfort: the roof shape and the composition of its different layers, the classrooms shape, the orientation of the openings.
We also want to propose a pedagogic place to understand how to use and preserve nature. To do so, we think users need to be able to capture the poetic of the ambiance of the forest around. The roof, made of corrugated polycarbonate sheets and palm leaves braiding, evokes the canopy and the light effects of the forest. The “experience “Ashanti pattern, traditionally drawn on fabrics, is used for the roof braiding. This dispositive enables to diffuse an indirect light into classrooms, perfectly adapted to studies. This filter comes as a supplementary layer, allowing light to pass through all the sense of this symbol before illuminating classrooms. We also offer outside classrooms allowing the students to study directly connected to nature. Outside and inside classrooms are both protected by the roof structure that transcribes the idea of verticality and structural branching. The earth works draw the limits as walls, ground or excavations, to show functions and spaces. The hollow and empty balance: the earth needed to build the walls becomes the excavated classrooms as a footprint of the intervention.
We propose an open school where student, parents and teachers can cross and make links. We propose a place which can change the perception of what surrounds them daily for maybe build other programs with which is already in Abetenim people. And first, we propose an educative building site with local resources to make it real.
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