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The award-winning Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is rooted in traditional Arab culture. The project cleverly combines virtual and real elements, with a striking exterior featuring glass doors and seamless integration with the surrounding environment. The double-layer skin design can not only avoid excessive sunlight exposure, but also present charming light and shadow relationships in the building..
The college aims to support and cultivate teachers, enabling them to become pioneers in leading and driving academic change in the future. In addition to teaching reform, the college also hopes to establish a community that promotes social development, research, and innovation to achieve long-term sustainable development. Therefore, architecture must meet the requirements of the curriculum, become a space for showcasing, supporting, and improving teaching methods, and simultaneously promote educational reform for the university and society..
This four story building is located near the main learning center of the university, making it an open gathering and learning space for all students. The open floor plan allows people to enter the building from all directions, and covered walkways connect various axes. In order to support and cultivate a new generation of teachers and scholars who believe in social development and continuous learning, the overall design of the project creates a learning oriented community..
The educational space promotes 21st century learning by creating various forms of interaction and learning exchange, while encouraging community awareness. The architecture supports open learning with an open plan, open to all students and also open to various opportunities. The college provides a reliable home for the students of the university, bridging the gap between students, professors, visitors, and the environment..
Indoor space aims to promote interaction between people and facilitate learning and communication opportunities through simple forms such as meeting and greeting each other. Therefore, each area in the building provides a space for sitting at any time, for example, the design proportion of the wooden large staircase “learning staircase” in the elliptical atrium allows people to sit freely under the trees. The “learning ladder” uses simple materials, with concrete as the structure, but from wooden seating surfaces to all railings, any surface in contact with humans is made of wood, allowing people to feel the healing effect of natural materials to the greatest extent possible..
The bottom floor of the building is an open large space that allows for sufficient ventilation through an oval shaped courtyard. The first floor is a multifunctional space that can be used for seminars and as a collaborative coffee shop. The second and third floors are lecture spaces, while the top floor is the teacher lounge and the dean’s office..
Overall, the space is flexible enough to accommodate different types of learning activities, and special attention is paid to the role of solitary space in critical learning, or deep learning; The space can also be flexibly adjusted according to the needs of various activities, such as using a formal table during seminars, and sitting on a mat during group activities..
Design to encourage students and teachers to maintain a strong moral conscience in the process of developing learning, rather than being isolated from society. The design also takes into account environmental quality, energy efficiency, and the unity of building and overall planning in terms of land use, space, transportation, and public facility settings. This building will connect the beautiful environment of the campus and.
