Haileybury Astana School / Cinici Architects

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  • Architect In Charge: Can Çinici
  • Architecture Team: Cem Katkat, Goksenin Ekiyorum, Selim Koytak, Tim Kovats
  • Project Manager: Mert Gokturk
  • Infrastructure: Diyap Proje, Cumhur Zibel
  • City: Astana
  • Country: Kazakhstan
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Text description provided by the architects. 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. 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.

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

Haileybury Astana School / Cinici Architects - Lighting, Chair
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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 / Cinici Architects - Windows, Facade, Glass
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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.

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Address:Astana, Kazakhstan

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Cite: "Haileybury Astana School / Cinici Architects" 31 Jan 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/472385/haileybury-astana-school-cinici-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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