The King's School, Vattanacville, Cambodia
Vattanacville, Cambodia — The Double Unit
A generous gabled school dining hall precedent showcasing exposed concrete columns, rhythmic timber slat louvers, and warm wooden truss ceilings.
- What we like about this project
- Layered circular pendant light fixtures suspended at varying heights echo the vertical scale of the gabled roof.
Materials
- exposed-concrete
- timber
- terrazzo
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- timber-gable-roof
- concrete-colonnade
- façade-louvers
- pendant-ring-fixtures
Style tags
- tropical
- modern
- institutional
Visual tags
- institutional
- dining-hall
- tropical-architecture
- double-height
- daylighting
- Geometry
- Symmetrical double-height gabled hall with repetitive heavy concrete structural frames along both flanks.
- Facade system
- Operable louvered screen wall integrated between exposed concrete columns.
- Structural guess
- Exposed concrete portal frames supporting timber roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional dining hall, grand double-height volume accommodating numerous dining tables and circulating students.
- Lighting
- Direct bright daylight streaming through side louvers, casting strong linear shadows across the terrazzo floor.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, luminous, and airy with striking shadow play from exterior louvers.
- Environmental context
- Tropical institutional setting with lush greenery visible through exterior openings.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive, light-filled communal hall transitioning smoothly from perimeter circulation to open gathering space.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of concrete structural bays and vertical timber louvers down the length of the hall.
- Style reading
- Tropical institutional modern
- Program
- School dining hall and cafeteria
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- exposed-concrete, timber, terrazzo, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- timber-gable-roof, concrete-colonnade, façade-louvers, pendant-ring-fixtures
- Style tags
- tropical, modern, institutional
- Visual tags
- institutional, dining-hall, tropical-architecture, double-height, daylighting
- Geometry
- Symmetrical double-height gabled hall with repetitive heavy concrete structural frames along both flanks.
- Facade system
- Operable louvered screen wall integrated between exposed concrete columns.
- Structural guess
- Exposed concrete portal frames supporting timber roof trusses.
- Spatial scale
- Large institutional dining hall, grand double-height volume accommodating numerous dining tables and circulating students.
- Lighting
- Direct bright daylight streaming through side louvers, casting strong linear shadows across the terrazzo floor.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, luminous, and airy with striking shadow play from exterior louvers.
- Environmental context
- Tropical institutional setting with lush greenery visible through exterior openings.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive, light-filled communal hall transitioning smoothly from perimeter circulation to open gathering space.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of concrete structural bays and vertical timber louvers down the length of the hall.
- Style reading
- Tropical institutional modern
- Program
- School dining hall and cafeteria
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture