SITE PLAN

My design is essentially composed of three volumes: educational infrastructure, sporting facilities and accommodation. My schools design was influenced by precedents found in Venice, specifically ‘Scoula Grande di San Marco’ for its emphasis on multipurpose spaces that vary in size, an idea that I have incorporated into my design where smaller learning spaces can be transformed into larger spaces that can serve a community function outside of educational hours through the use of sliding partitions.

By placing the entirety of the schools infrastructure on the existing paved area it allowed the accommodation to be placed above the two metre jump on the site, creating a threshold between public and private elements. By using linear pavilions within my design I was able to create these micro-climate pockets, protected by the staggered and stepped walls as they climb the slope.

Parti Plan shows the orginal concept of heavy stone walls depict site margins and influence the movement within the scheme.

2 Metre Sectional Perspective

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Showing how the harbour wall bends round the castle hill and extends through my scheme. Emphasizes relationship to castle and the hierarchy between public and private space depicted by rise in slope.

This drawing is completely hand drawn in order to achieve a unique depiction of each individual stone and texture.

Site Sections

Depicting the scheme within context and develops the relationship between external and internal space.

These drawing were taken from a Sketch-Up model before being fixed and rendered in Auto-CAD and Photoshop.