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Dammam School
New Central Business District, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2009 -

 
 

We have developed a school and the central mosque site to give an idea of how public buildings should be incorporated into the residential and commercial blocks. There should be limited but well placed entrances to the school. One entrance faces the large park west of the site and one opens onto the park or playfield site on the southeast end of the site. The entrances are sized consistent with the sizes of the spaces they open onto, the one onto the park, across from the mosque being slightly grander.

There is a service entrance off the alley in the north corner of the block, where the kitchen and physical plant for the school are most readily hidden. Ground floor circulation within the school can be either through interior halls or through a series of mid-block courtyards of different sizes and shapes. These courtyards are designed so they can be used for breaks or for instruction. The cafeteria is off one of these courtyards in order to allow for indoor or outdoor lunches.

 

The classroom wing on the southwest side is single loaded. The one on the east side is double loaded for the first three floors. The library can either be located on the ground floor on the long side of the entry court or on the top floor on the narrow end of the pool over the main entrance, where it is shown in plan and section.

The gym is shown on the top floor of the double loaded classroom wing, on the end of the entry courtyard opposite the library, where it can also open onto two roof terraces, one with a pool, for additional space. Alternatively, the gym could be on the ground floor of the double loaded classroom wing next to the open green. The elevator cores are on opposite corners of the school in the small towers next to the two public entrances.

 

 

 

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