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Atwater Elementary School


The building’s main concept is “Building as Playgrounds“. A school should have small places, large places, all sorts of secluded and semi-secluded places. Instead of approaching the design problem with creating massing models for programs, we started with what kind of experience we would like to create for the school kids.

By doing this, a narrative based on circulation was constructed. Two stairs and a ramp are evenly distributed in the building, plus creating social spaces around the circulation systems for a more inclusive and engaging environment. by thinking about We also want to explore the possibilities of creating dialogues between different levels in the building by constructing two atrium with offsets .




Winter 2018
McGill University School of Architecture
In Collaboration with Ankit Gongal
Instructor: Fabrizio Gallanti
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