架构师提供的文本描述。伊克亚早年：Kanakapura路调和了一个废弃的手表工厂和超过两英亩的土地，变成了一个繁茂、多彩和沉浸的学习环境。这项新设计是专为蒙台梭利和幼儿园环境设计的，它利用了旧工业建筑的美丽，将现有的外壳重新定位为宽敞、自然通风和阳光充足的教室的框架。

Text description provided by the architects. Ekya Early Years: Kanakapura Road reconceives an abandoned watch factory and overgrown two acre site into a lush, colorful and immersive environment for learning. Designed as an exclusive preschool for both Montessori and Kindergarten environments, the new design capitalizes on the beauty of an old industrial building, repurposing the existing shell as a framework for spacious, naturally ventilated and sunlight filled classrooms.

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这个项目的主要目标是在学生和自然之间提供一个不断的互动；蒙台梭利简介的设计要求，以及在这个迅速发展的城市里的一种更加罕见的体验。为了实现这一目标，内部和外部的界限变得模糊，13个学习环境(教室)从环绕着密密麻麻的“丛林”庭院的一条有盖的人行道上进入。从院子里构思出的“风车”形成了四个被控制的入口，通往外部的娱乐和学习景观。包括室外艺术室，竞技场，操场，沙坑和个别的教室花园辐射周围现有的建筑足迹，方便进入，监督和维护。

The primary goal of this project was to provide a constant interaction between students and nature; a design requirement of the Montessori brief and an ever rarer experience within the rapidly growing city. To achieve this, the boundaries are blurred between inside and outside with the 13 learning environments (classrooms) accessed from a covered walkway circumnavigating a densely planted central “Jungle” courtyard. Conceived in a “pinwheel” formation from the courtyard are four controlled access points to the exterior recreational and learning landscape. Features including an outdoor art room, amphitheater, playground, sandpit and individual classroom gardens radiate around the existing building footprint allowing for easy access, supervision and maintenance.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图

色彩的策略和持续使用为校园建立了一个刺激和嬉戏的身份，作为一个视觉结缔组织贯穿整个孩子的日常体验。柔和的彩色百叶窗突出了盖好的办公室和学生入口。这个梯度然后改变中央庭院人行道周围的频率，为每个房间提供一个单一的颜色代码。相同的识别颜色继续在每个教室内，以突出特殊的图书馆，阅读壁龛和小学教学表面。

The strategic and consistent use of color establishes a stimulating and playful identity for the campus, acting as a visual connective tissue throughout the children’s daily experience. A soft gradient of coloured louvers highlight the covered office and student entrances. This gradient then changes frequency around the central courtyard walkway providing a single colour-code for each room. The same identifying colours continue inside each classroom to highlight special library reading niches and primary teaching surfaces.

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建筑注释：

Construction Notes:

这个项目是第一个独立的蒙台梭利学校为埃克亚早年品牌和原型的未来位置。该项目包括一个完整的办公室/接待套房，13个学习环境，艺术室，AV室，灵活的公共区域和室外娱乐/学习空间。该项目的主要挑战之一是稳定现有的建筑物，这是严重的失修，使它适合于一所学校。由于成本和主要的结构限制，现有的建筑框架和外壳保持原样，但例外情况是在内部和外部空间之间建立额外的联系，并突出主要入口。在这个预先定义的框架内，有趣的建筑干预发生在儿童的规模上，在教室、正式/临时休息区和雕刻的地形之间创造了阅读的角落。

This project is the first stand-alone Montessori school for the Ekya Early Years brand and the prototype for future locations. The program includes a full office/reception suite, 13 learning environments, art room, AV room, flexible common areas and outdoor recreation/learning spaces. One of the major challenges of this project was stabilizing the existing building, which was in major disrepair, so that it was suitable for a school. Due to cost and major structural constraints the existing building frame and shell were left intact though exceptions were made to create additional links between interior and exterior spaces and to highlight the main entrances. Within this predefined framework, playful architectural interventions occur at the children’s scale, creating reading nooks between classrooms, formal/impromptu seating areas and sculpted terrain.

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Architects CollectiveProject

Location Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Category Renovation

Design Team Cyrus Patell, Eliza Higgins, Ajantha S., Grégoire Rossignol

Area 25000.0 ft2

Project Year 2014

Photographs Tina Nandi Stephens