MCM
ESTATE HOUSE
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The site is located at the peripheral of the campus, on a sloping land overlooking the green vista of natural foliage and a stream. Perhaps we could proposed a canteen at road level, an elevated "tree house" office so that it can captured the entire vista, a workshop cum store house at the lowest level? Together we nicknamed it as the Estate House. This is actually the department of Estate and Property for the school.
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UNIFORM ANNEX
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We attempted another design intervention with an annex building tug neatly at the end of the main administration block. Apparently the design of the admin block has been given so much attention to its main facade, resulting the end block being very much neglected with a huge blank wall. This wall is unfortunately facing an open air amphitheater, bounces glare and heat towards it and making the public space almost "impotent". Similar to our previous work with tropical design, large overhangs and sun shading were introduce. With the CG, it looks stunning with the B&W backgrounds.
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KITCHEN EXTENSION
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The school is booming and the kitchen needs some extra spaces. With the back of house that is currently underutilized, We attempted to redesign it as a docking place doubled up as a storage and a new dish washing compartment. We attempted to employ steel lightweight structure with plenty of openings for cross ventilation. Skylight for natural lighting. The interplay between the natural materials of brick and steel creates the necessary texture of truth to materials in the context of Small is Beautiful.
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SIXTH FORM CENTER
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We embarked Sixth Form Center as a total revamp of an existing structure, built just for the purpose of storage, to be transformed into a proper place for Sixth Former to mingle, group discussion and study complete with multi-media facilities. It comprises of the open space or lounge serviced by a kitchenette that could doubled up as a cafe in a near future, a private observation room, 2 large restrooms capable to be utilized during sport days with storage beneath the staircases. The lounge is open up to the outside by means of collapsible glazing, once opened, muted the interior with the exterior allowing activities to overflow to the courts outsides. It also designed to doubled up as a sport day observation center.
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