DESIGN NAME: Butchart Gardens Preschool
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Kindergarten
INSPIRATION: The name comes from a Canadian landscape design called Butchart Gardens, it mixed up the Japanese and Italian styles of elements, hoping to create a beautiful space for children to grow up, from garden castles, trees and stones through the design method, using concretization enters the educational space for children.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The warm and moist attitude of wood and the clear feeling contained in white are used to inject a bit of comfort into this space, and at the same time, it allows people in the space to use their imagination, making the blank space gradually full of colors.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The original design space was full of oppressive beams and columns in the indoor space of Taiwan's multi-houses. We used arcs to modify the oppressive beams and columns, bringing it into the Italian court feeling. Remove all compartments and use glass to increase the sense of space. The method combines natural caves, trees, and rocks with children's activities.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Design started from May 2019 to November 2019.
Construction time started from November 2019 to June 2020.
Location: No. 38, Lequn Rd., Banqiao Dist., New Taipei City 220, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: A. Using natural solid wood leather and craftsman's arc technology.
B. Design a special metal arc mold to shape the stone.
C. Light partitions use fiber cement board to make an arc wall partition design.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 1F:26670mm x 23950mm , 2F:18820mm x 8410mm
TAGS: soft arc, Japanese style, simple, streamlined, penetrating
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Butchart Gardens is a combination of design elements from the natural ecology of Japanese and Italian gardens. The design is according with the restrictions of children's teaching environment, taking children's safety, activities, and teaching into consideration, and cooperates with wooden work and mud-making arc technology to create a wonderful garden for children, allowing the over-standardized early education environment in Taiwan transform into a comfort and outdoor living nature.
CHALLENGE: Due to the needs of children’s height, activity habits, and safe teaching environment, the design requires more subtle observation and thinking. In order to integrate the interior with nature in the planning spaces, and by the restrictions of moving off the external building’s wall, the interior space design has been more carefully considered the light and penetration.
ADDED DATE: 2021-02-25 03:05:52
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : CEO: YU-ZU CHUANG, Designer: SHIH-YAO HUANG and Art Director: CHIA-CHI KUO
IMAGE CREDITS: Photographer: JHENG-DA WU
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