台北碧湖国小
上海
A colorful educational facility entrance precedent featuring playful umbrella canopies and terraced approach stairs designed for elementary school scale.
- What we like about this project
- Sculptural mushroom columns double as functional entry shade structures.
Materials
- tile
- stucco
- concrete
- metal
- glass
Visual identifiers
- mushroom-canopies
- orange-entry-portal
- colorful-window-accents
- stepped-terrace
Style tags
- contemporary
- playful
- institutional
- colorful
Visual tags
- educational
- playful
- institutional
- facade-rhythm
- children-scale
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped institutional volume featuring a prominent projecting orange entry portal and rhythmic vertical window accents.
- Facade system
- Light-colored tiled or masonry facade with punched windows and colorful vertical trim accents.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with flat slab terraces and column supports.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story institutional school scale balanced by child-friendly human-scaled elements at the ground entry.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows from the overhead canopies onto the ground stairs.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, cheerful, and welcoming educational environment.
- Environmental context
- Sloped urban or suburban hillside site with lush adjacent greenery and retaining stone walls.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via wide stepped terraces featuring organic mushroom-like canopies that shelter children and create a playful outdoor threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window bands balanced by organic scattered white canopies.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Elementary school
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- tile, stucco, concrete, metal, glass
- Visual identifiers
- mushroom-canopies, orange-entry-portal, colorful-window-accents, stepped-terrace
- Style tags
- contemporary, playful, institutional, colorful
- Visual tags
- educational, playful, institutional, facade-rhythm, children-scale
- Geometry
- Multi-story stepped institutional volume featuring a prominent projecting orange entry portal and rhythmic vertical window accents.
- Facade system
- Light-colored tiled or masonry facade with punched windows and colorful vertical trim accents.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with flat slab terraces and column supports.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-story institutional school scale balanced by child-friendly human-scaled elements at the ground entry.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting soft shadows from the overhead canopies onto the ground stairs.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, cheerful, and welcoming educational environment.
- Environmental context
- Sloped urban or suburban hillside site with lush adjacent greenery and retaining stone walls.
- Spatial experience
- Approached via wide stepped terraces featuring organic mushroom-like canopies that shelter children and create a playful outdoor threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical window bands balanced by organic scattered white canopies.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Elementary school
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture