Private School
Sector
Public
Location
Ankara Turkey
Year
2021
Site Area
17.000 m²
Construction Area
26.000 m²
Design Team
Baran Gökgöz
Kumru Alpaydın
Mehmet Mert Işık
Türker KesiktaÅŸ
Yasemin Işık
An educational structure is more than a unification of indoor and outdoor spaces brought with a function diagram practice. The structure itself should participate in education as one of the factors determining the quality of education. The design process sets off with this idea. In this concern, contemporary educational buildings are the structures allowing small groups to coexist as they are formed by the combination of scaled areas in which small gathering areas are articulated with large and crowded spaces, and spatial gradation is also quite important.
The attempt to make the education structure's social, artistic, and sports programs the permanent part of not only the students' academic life but also their daily lives has been interpreted with the idea of ​​campus, which is used seven days a week in the design. Through this idea, educational areas are shaped around their courtyards, while social, artistic, and sports-related programs take place around the alley and each other.
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The beginning and the end of the alley create two separate entrances to the campus, where the stairs at both entrances work as theaters that can be used for outdoor performances.
The alley serves students during school hours while it also allows the use of the indoor sports hall, indoor swimming pool, and multi-purpose hall by parents and visitors outside of school time. In this way, it has been ensured that the facility can be used during nights and vacation times even if the educational buildings are entirely closed.
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The route of the school buses is taken to the back surface of the building (Northwest and Northeast facades) so that it does not intersect with the students' walking paths. The shuttles have the chance to drop off from the family floor and pick up students on the ground floor. As the shuttle service is provided via a one-way road, all students have the opportunity to get on and off the shuttles without intersecting any vehicle roads.
