Haileybury Astana School

Haileybury Astana School
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HAILEYBURY ASTANA SCHOOL

Cinici Architects

LANDSCAPE
DS Mimarlik – Deniz Aslan

ACOUSTIC DESIGN
Sey Muhendislik – Yıldız Sey

CIVIL ENGINEER
Fonksiyon Muhendislik, Atilla Caydamli

MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Okutan Muhendislik, Mehmet Okutan

INFRASTRUCTURE
Diyap Proje – Cumhur Zibel

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Aykar Muhendislik – Mehmet Karadurak

PHOTOGRAPHS
Cemal Emden

AREA
20500.0 m²

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Astana, kazakhstan

CATEGORY
Elementary & middle school

Text description provided by architect.

Haileybury, one of the Britain’s oldest and most prestigious independent boarding schools, Has its Astana Campus situated on a 12 hectares site, with 20 000 m2 closed area.

Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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There were three challenges while developing the design idea of this campus: the vast and flat layout of the city, The complexity of the program and the climatic conditions.

The challenge of complexity aroused its counterpart, simplicity, as the main design strategy.

Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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The four parts of the school programme (Pre-school, KS1, KS2, Senior School) each having unique spatial requirements, are resolved into one comprehensive unity: the square.

An understanding of a “generic section” that responds to the heavy mechanical and electrical requirement As well as programmatic complexities is developed responding to the climatic conditions.

Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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After all, surprisingly, the rebirth of the archetypal “Courtyard” witnessed – as an unintended reference to the original Haileybury in UK.

In a vast city like Astana, which is in the process of development and pervaded by extreme flatness, this two store, low-rise building, devoid of historic and iconic references, offered its own vastness and horizontality as a reverence to the city.


Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
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Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden
Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden
Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden
Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden
Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden
Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden
Haileybury Astana School
© Cemal Emden


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