Kings College Library: An English School Library with Angular Brick Gables
The library and classrooms are located on the upper floor, allowing the spaces to receive natural light throughout the day from north-facing windows.
The library and classrooms are located on the upper floor, allowing the spaces to receive natural light throughout the day from north-facing windows.
Mecanoo worked with DS Landschapsarchitecten to design the dune landscape. Within the landscape design, the firm was able to integrate proper security requirements.
The idea of the renovation was to increase natural light exposure and overlook the park views. At the same time, it enhanced circulation, visual communication, and spatial distribution in open work areas. An array of windows allows the staff and employees to gaze the outside views. Natural light will bath the space in its full glory.
Kinfolk instructed that the bar area had to feel intimate on a slow night with up to 40 people. It also needs to feel connected to the rear event space when the venue is on the run to accommodate 150 people.
It also connects the city’s landmarks and neighborhoods with the waterfront via distinct ‘lines’ and ‘windows’, turning the discontinuous promenade segments into a single walkable promenade.
Vermont-sur-le-Lac Residence is located on a natural landscape with green living things like trees and grass. The use of wood siding assembly makes this residence fits well with the natural landscape around it, like the lake and mountains.
The extension of the City’s downtown’s parks is about 1 – 1/2 mile with the river’s edge reclamation. This extension is planned based on the rational plan to create an easy place that can be accessed by all people in the site’s city.
The ridges and the hilltops are used to be neighborhood parks. It is designed with an extensive trail network. The purpose is about forming a large recreational system for the people who want to enjoy the site area with their family.
The firm intended to establish places where things that used to be hidden were exposed deliberately to emphasize the factory atmosphere inside the NFB Nursery.
The detail was clean and simple. It is made of local materials, craftsmen, and laborers, including the client and the family.
In short, this new public function acts as facilities to accommodate the local community. Between the pavilion and the manor farm, there is an intimate ‘village square’ it can be considered as an outdoor extension of the foyer.