Item DC 121/5/2/5 - A school for the "mentally handicapped": Ground floor plan, final design

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DC 121/5/2/5

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A school for the "mentally handicapped": Ground floor plan, final design

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  • Sep 1978-May 1979 (Creation)

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Architectural drawing on tracing paper using Rotring black ink pen representing the ground floor plan (final design) in scale 1:100. It shows how the architect translated his initial strategy into the final design. The ground floor plan includes the main building entrance, street entrance, the indoor spaces, vertical circulation, and other services. It also shows the main structural elements: cylinder columns, and load bearing walls. The ground floor comes with the full details of the indoor spaces with their furniture and the outdoor spaces and their relationships with the exterior elevations. Here, the architect names these spaces as: children's shop, story telling, library, and tea shop. The architect tried to design the school as a clear box from the outside, however, the interior design seems like more free space with curved lines making the movement smooth for the pupils.

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(fl c1970s-2020s)

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Christopher Platt studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at The Glasgow School of Art between 1974-1981. He is co-Founder of Studio KAP architects and Chair of Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, where he was previously Head of School. His first 20 years of professional practice was spent in Glasgow, London, Oxford, Ethiopia and Berlin and was followed by 20 years combining academia with independent, reflective practice in Studio KAP and practice-based research both in Global North and Global South contexts.

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Dimensions: 583 x 836 mm

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This item is tagged "Harmful material" due to the use of the term "mentally handicapped" which is ableist.

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Catalogued by Nada Al-Naemyi, work placement, March 2023.

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  • English

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