1图片2_天水万花筒
北京
A colorful kindergarten facade precedent utilizing a curved white mass and arched multi-colored glazing to create an engaging educational environment.
- What we like about this project
- The parapet features small colored window cutouts that echo the larger arched openings below.
Materials
- stucco
- colored-glass
- aluminum-framing
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- curved-facade
- colored-glass-windows
- arched-entrance
- white-stucco
Style tags
- contemporary
- playful
- institutional
Visual tags
- educational
- playful
- colorful
- institutional
- curved-form
- Geometry
- A cylindrical or curving two-to-three story mass featuring a symmetrical rhythm of arched and rectangular punched windows, culminating in a crenellated parapet with colored insets.
- Facade system
- Smooth white render over wall construction with punched window openings and colored glass highlights.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry or panel infill walls.
- Spatial scale
- Child-friendly institutional scale; large entry arch provides a grand yet approachable gesture for young occupants.
- Lighting
- Even overcast daylight creating soft, diffuse shadows across the curved white stucco wall.
- Atmosphere
- Joyful and luminous, with vibrant accents breaking through a clean white volume.
- Environmental context
- Open site with a playground on the left and surrounding low-rise built fabric against distant hills.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the paved forecourt, the large multi-colored arched entryway acts as a playful, inviting threshold into the interior volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical horizontal and vertical alignment of mixed rectangular and arched window openings across the curved plane.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Kindergarten
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, colored-glass, aluminum-framing, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- curved-facade, colored-glass-windows, arched-entrance, white-stucco
- Style tags
- contemporary, playful, institutional
- Visual tags
- educational, playful, colorful, institutional, curved-form
- Geometry
- A cylindrical or curving two-to-three story mass featuring a symmetrical rhythm of arched and rectangular punched windows, culminating in a crenellated parapet with colored insets.
- Facade system
- Smooth white render over wall construction with punched window openings and colored glass highlights.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame with masonry or panel infill walls.
- Spatial scale
- Child-friendly institutional scale; large entry arch provides a grand yet approachable gesture for young occupants.
- Lighting
- Even overcast daylight creating soft, diffuse shadows across the curved white stucco wall.
- Atmosphere
- Joyful and luminous, with vibrant accents breaking through a clean white volume.
- Environmental context
- Open site with a playground on the left and surrounding low-rise built fabric against distant hills.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the paved forecourt, the large multi-colored arched entryway acts as a playful, inviting threshold into the interior volume.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical horizontal and vertical alignment of mixed rectangular and arched window openings across the curved plane.
- Style reading
- Playful contemporary institutional architecture
- Program
- Kindergarten
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture