danielle abel

Room Requirements

Library, computer labs and toilet block

Studio Spaces with outdoor seating area and an adjacent common room for students, lecture theatre

Cafeteria with above seating area, another toilet block and offices for staff with an adjacent staff meeting room

Gallery with stairs to Deans office in centre of school

Folly at base of valley

Simplicity and Traditionalism in Design

The shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose and revert back to basics. The shape and organization of a building should be determined only by functional requirements and primitive design, instead of by traditional aesthetic concepts. Functionality and refreshing nakedness looks honest and is an inevitable design concept. Buildings could be spare and crisp in their principal masses, often punctuating plain surfaces with eruptions of lush, while influenced by cardinal directions. Concrete tangible forms consisting of many chambers on different levels borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Mesoamerica design. Primitive design has been important to the development of modern architecture, creating urban monumental buildings and structures where form follows function.

5 Fraps images of Environment

The images highlight the aesthetic of being true to the terrain and following cascading plan with different levels created by mostly rectangular components stacked upon each other. Seemingly simplistic in nature the architecture of the bridge was influenced by the Mesoamerican naturalistic and primitive design in their artworks and ancient architecture, while continuing with a functional pattern. Thus the school was created with an influence on circulation, using the stairs and levels as an important feature in the creation.