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BIG creates shifting platforms with elevated green terraces for Wilson Secondary School in Virginia
United States Architecture News - Jan 11, 2016 - 14:46 11313 views
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Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has added Wilson Secondary School in Arlington, Virginia to its new US projects. The new Wilson Secondary School expands and relocates two existing county-wide secondary programs in a new building. Located in a dense urban context along Arlington’s urban Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor, the school is designed across multiple levels in order to maintain open green space for recreation. BIG's new Wilson Secondary School sits on the 15.800m2 area in five-storey building that explores the potentials of terraces by using green and different plantations for students, which makes every part of the building usable.
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BIG’s design seeks to maintain the feeling of a 1-story school building while still having a vertical organization and the efficiencies afforded by it. The building is designed as a series of classroom bars rotated along a single hinge point. The rotation creates cascading green terraces leading from the educational spaces of the school to the athletic field.
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Beneath the rotated classroom bars is a pair of large public levels with varying ceiling heights. The large and public functions of the building, including auditorium and gymnasium, are placed on these levels and accessible from the main street front, Wilson Boulevard. The Wilson Secondary School's shifting platforms create a variety of spaces for students- acts like an entertaining, educational and attractive areas for several facilities that become one part of the education.
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