CHILDREN'S UNIVERSITY

An area in between AGU Sumer campus and student village, bounded by Erkilet boulevards and several other public institutions such as a Police department, a Highschool and a courthouse within its vicinity was chosen for this project’s site. As familiar as the site is, hence every student staying in the student village passes there every day on way to campus. This manifesto aims to layout Children with special needs design process and extra information that could not be communicated on the posters.
An educational facility for a 6-12-year-old range of children with a non-comprehensive-based learning curriculum was to be implemented on the site for this whole semester. Thus, Children with special needs came to my mind and how they can be integrated into their post curricula activities to meet the needs of outside society. Children with special needs university’s curriculum is creating a medium for children with either mental or physical disabilities to become socially active and exposing them to nature to adjust their senses.
As the project dictates, there is a physical direct access to the student village as illustrated on the presentation posters and students on both sides can share the use of facilities either for learning, socializing and several kinds of activities that either CWSNU or student village can accommodate. These activities could be Art and Design exhibitions that could feature architecture students, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual reality symposiums that could also feature Computer engineering students and several other activities that could bring these two communities together.
In designing process, site synthesis and settlement took careful consideration on the site’s vegetation harmony. Thus, all trees in the site were preserved except a few that were to be moved on the lower level. There is an axis that divides the site into two and is meant to provide direct access to the student village. Since, the site presents itself huge, one side of the axis hosts the CWSNU built facilities and the other side hosts a garden and an artificial swamp that could be used for fishing. There is a perpendicular path in the middle of the provided axis that both serves as an entrance for public usage facilities of CWSNU and a walk path in the swamp-garden area of the site.
There is a private Entrance into CWSNU on the road separating the site and student village and the Parking lot is located near it. CWSNU is courtyarded and has vast outdoor stairs with ramps descending to the underground level, but there are also interior staircases and elevators towards the underground floor. CWSNU has a waiting area for parents that bring their children at school and a café as well as a gallery to occupy them while waiting for their children. CWSNU has four classes and four transitional activity rooms and each can accommodate 15 students at once. There is also a Conference Hall that can accommodate 60 people at once and also has a Foyer. CWSNU has a dinning hall and relaxing area for staff and students and there are two Guest units in case Staying guests are invited.