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Charoenpong Kindergarten

Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul

Charoenpong Kindergarten

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DESIGN TEAM
Narucha Kuwattanapasiri

PHOTOGRAPHS
Soopakorn Srisakul

AREA
1600 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Thailand

CATEGORY
Kindergarten

Text description provided by architect.

Haroenpong Kindergarten is an old and popular private Thai school in the area, comprised of Nursery and Kindergarten level. 

The brief for the project was to enlarge school building by transforming the formerly playground and yard.

Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul

The new building has 7 classrooms, bathroom, recreational area, faculty room, lunch area and playground.

Design concept is to keep children’s playground activities as usual. Ground level offering open-plan space for children’s play and interact with the surrounding elements.

Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul

In the second floor,there is a central court with high ceiling connected to play yard on the ground.

This floor contains 5 classrooms and activity spaces along the corridor.

Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul

Third floor is designed to be a large recreational area for all children’s participation, and a faculty room in the other side.

The building’s mass is developed from toys, each geometry forms has been overlapped and defined zoning by color.

Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul

There are some voids in the building so as to flow the space and connect each area together.

LIST OF MATERIALS.

- Roof : Steel Roofing (Metal sheet) - BlueScope Lysaght (Thailand) Limited 

- Elevation : Steel wall cladding (Metal sheet siding) - BlueScope Lysaght (Thailand) Limited and Brick wall plaster and painted - Handrail : Steel - Flooring: Terrazzo

Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul


Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul
Charoenpong Kindergarten
© Soopakorn Srisakul


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Ground Floor Plan
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Roof Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan

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