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KONGJU SPECIAL SCHOOL

Gongju, South Korea. 2021

Description +

PROGRAM: schools, dormitory, gymnasium and performance hall

CLIENT: College of Education, KongJu University

STATUS: Competition

1. Site Connect to Nature: Buildings on the plateau site form a central garden at the heart of this school-like-a-village. With ginkgo trees, pools, and landscaping like ancient Korean gardens, this will be a place of calm inspiration.

2. Life/Body/Mind/Art: School as village in four distinct buildings.

  •     Life: Dorm rooms with natural ventilation and views are formed around the central garden in a serpentine curve. Placing the children’s rooms over a ground level of classrooms allows the analogy of traditional “living above the shop” village character.
  •     Body:  Dedicated to health and holistic education with the large gymnasium and multi-purpose athletic facilities, while forming a pubic gateway at the south to connect the campus and community.
  •     Mind: Situated at the center of the campus with library and clock tower, this building has the main labs and offices of the school to prioritize teaching and learning.
  •     Art: With the theater, a café, and arts classrooms at the main entry court emphasizing the teaching potential of the arts for autistic children.

 

3. Individuation: A proven positive for autistic children, a sense of individuation is expressed in unique colors in each of the residences. A variety of living spaces also contributes individual character. Most dorm rooms have direct cross ventilation. Classrooms are directly accessible from the ground level.

4. Ecological Vision: CLT wood construction, exposed at interiors for a feeling of warmth is insulated on the exterior with skin of “poraver”, a new recycled stucco-like material made of waste glass beads. Rainwater collection and recycling connect to the watershed of the mountain landscape. Geothermal heating and cooling together with state of the art solar shingle roofs bring the project to a near net zero ecological example. The vertical colored blades at the dorm rooms are also effective for the cut-off heat gain in the East and West facing façade.

5. Orientation, Accessibility and Detail: Clear orientation for the special needs students is created through circulation on the mountain side in continuous movement while living and classroom spaces open to the garden side. Accessibility is paramount with a series of spaces for collective engagement and individual reflection in the main garden giving a strong sense of location and direction in a space that is helping Autistic student’s sensory system development. Throughout the complex, aspects such as digital clock towers which shows the seasonal change with time will add to the special qualities of this village.

Ecological Innovation +

– 以交叉叠合木材作为结构以及完成面,达到零以碳排放
– 通过绿色屋面以及连接农业实验室的城市农场来支持食物的耕种与施肥
– 地热井提供季节循环所需的所有冷热低能耗调节能力

– 通过4000平方米的屋面光伏电池结合可减少热岛效应绿化空间,以及可收集过滤雨水产生卫浴用水蓄水池塘来打造零能耗的校园。

Credits +

  • architect

    - Steven Holl Architects

    Steven Holl (design architect, principal)

    Noah Yaffe (partner in charge)

    JongSeo Lee (project architect)

    Lourenzo Amaro de Oliveira, Ruoyu Wei, Apostolos Gredis, Michael Haddy (competition team)

  • associate architects

    - Junglim Architecture

  • sustainability consultant

    - Transsolar

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