This proposal for a kindergarten explores water as a pedagogical theme in art and science, seeking to naturally engage these themes in early education. Tectonics of concentric arcs, vaults, pools, and columns run uniformly throughout the project and work in unison to subvert—and submerge—a typical elementary school education.
The project began with a precedent study of the Gandia Kid’s University in Spain. This arts-focused kindergarten was simplified into a basic solid, which was then used as a starting point for a ‘texture-bash’ study, in which 2D textures derived from elements of the precedent were used as displacement maps to modify the 3D geometry of the solid. One such study model became the basis for the form of the final building, from which the pool and other interior forms and governing principles were extracted. The resulting structure contains a large, curved swimming pool looming above a more traditional classroom layout, where students have views from the lower classrooms all the way up through the large skylights suspended over the pool.
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SLICE COMPILATION STUDY
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SLICE COMPILATION STUDY
