Creative International Childrens School

We were given the task to design a comfortable, functional, and safe place for a school of 500 children of all age groups. The designed building shares its territory with a decommissioned soviet factory "Poliron", and the use of building materials such as brick veneer on the first stories of the designed building reminds us of the building's context. The buildings placement on the site was decided by determining the most optimal use of the allotted space. For example, the representative zone leading to the entrance of the building is accessible to all local inhabitants. The building was morphologically influenced by the concept of pushing boundaries and deconstructing accepted societal norms. The openness and borderlessness is what makes this project unique and worthy of the status of a regional public center. We were able to create a learning environment which contains classrooms, fully equipped laboratories, sports halls, and spacious hallways which function as recreational spaces. Every room is open and well-lit due to the double-glazed walls surrounding the main foyer, staircase, and classrooms. The volumes and configuration of the buildings form a comfortable environment for recreation and the gathering of children and adults. The landscape surrounding the school was designed with not only sports activities in mind, but also with consideration for leisure and recreational functions, manifested in the architecture as an internal courtyard with a covered stage.

The building was morphologically influenced by the concept of pushing boundaries and deconstructing accepted societal norms. The openness and borderlessness is what makes this project unique and worthy of the status of a regional public center.

The building is parted into several structural volumes. This division into separate blocks serves the function of better proportioning the 3 story building to the scale of children and their visual comfort. During more detailed development of the structure, it was decided to divide the building into four sections and connect them with a pathway halfway entrenched into the ground. It’s important that the 4 blocks have differing structural arrangements, which allowed the functional use of the space while keeping the costs of construction low. The ground floor space is visually integrated with the environment and the courtyard. This effect of openness is especially prevalent in the main lobby and staircase due to the use of curtain walls. - foundations - prefabricated reinforced concrete footings, foundation blocks, and binding monolithic belt at the top of the blocks; - walls - load-bearing brick, 380 mm thick; - binding monolithic belt; - floors - prefabricated hollow core slabs; - prefabricated reinforced concrete lintels; - stairs - cast in place reinforced concrete; - roof - hip roof