EVERGREEN EARLY YEARS CENTRE

EVERGREEN EARLY YEARS CENTRE

Evergreen is a proposed early year’s centre to be located at the park at PJS 7, Bandar Sunway. The word evergreen refers to a plant that is retains green leaves throughout the year. Based on my site analysis, the location of the site is close towards a major highway and the air quality is bad due to the emission from the vehicles on the road. The early year’s centre proposed aims to help combat that issue by being a green building which neutralizes or even improve the quality of air at site for the users and for the residents staying surrounding the site with the implementation of gardening as part of the children’s curriculum. The site itself serves as a green space which encourages residents to carry out community activities.

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Based on my site analysis, the location of the site is close towards a major highway and the air quality is bad due to the emission from the vehicles on the road. The early year’s centre proposed aims to help combat that issue by being a green building which neutralizes or even improve the quality of air at site for the users and for the residents staying surrounding the site with the implementation of gardening as part of the children’s curriculum. The site itself serves as a green space which encourages residents to carry out community activities.

Spaces are classified as stated, having admin space arranged at the lower floor and learning spaces on the next 2 floors. The spaces are stacked from the north east slanting towards south west to allocate space for planting facing the morning sun. The elevations in direct contact with sun is wrapped by a curtain wall facade. The facade is segregated into different segments to cater to each space needs. A concave roof sheds spaces as well as to collect rain water to be used for the building. The design concept that i was directing the design towards to was to convert the site into a green space to improve air quality and is also sustainable. I wanted the site to also function as a community space where residents can carry out various and such as exercising, sports and gardening. The concept of play is integrated into the design of the building with incorporating facades to allow children to play with it as well as wide corridors and spaces for mobile movements.

PRESENTATION BOARD

SITE ANALYSIS BOARD

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SITE ANALYSIS BOARD

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There were a couple of passive design strategies that were incorporated into the design of this building. The internal spaces are shedded by facades made out of perforated perspex which filters the amount of sunlight entering spaces at the same time allowing natural ventilation to continuously enter the building. A void is pierced through the centre of the building to create a courtyard effect to passively cool the building. Using the concept of hot air rises and cold air sinks, a hole is crafted out of the roof not only for rain harvesting but to also allow hot air to escape. 360 degree revolving sliding doors divide out the internal and external spaces but can be opened to allow air to circulate and open ended corridors create a cross ventilation effect.

Gardening plots are placed along classrooms corridors on the back of the building facing morning sun. this gives children a scenic view outside their classrooms as well as direct access to gardening plots while still in sight of supervisors.

Classrooms are furbished with furniture at child level. The wall of the classrooms have shapes engraved into them which act as windows. This allows parents to observe their children from the outside of the class as well as it being learning materials for students. Parts of the wall are coated with fiberglass which invites children to express their creativity without restrictions.

Building was designed on the concept of openness. Classrooms are attached with rotating doors breaking the barrier between the outside and the inside spaces. Wide open corridors gives the liberty for activities for children as well as allowing breezy wind to flow throughout the building easily.