新幼儿园

The new kindergarten & classroom building designed by Baker Architecture + Design has been designed to be an exciting and functional facility which will promote creativity and facilitate great teaching and student achievement. Since the Duranes campus has limited area, it was especially important that the building was integrated into the site in a non-intrusive way. The building footprint strengthens an existing circulation artery, and maintains a low profile on the north side to allow solar access to this path. Furthermore, the building has numerous sustainable amenities and a real design focus on indoor environmental quality.

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已采用的能源和环境设计战略包括：

Energy and Environmental Design strategies which have been utilized include the following:

室内环境品质

Indoor Environmental Quality

-自然采光。凹面朝南的牧师用钢挡板在温暖的月份中扩散直接的热量增加，同时仍然提供全年的自然采光和冬季的直接取暖。

- Natural daylighting. Recessed south facing clerestories with steel baffles to diffuse direct heat gain in warmer months while still providing natural daylighting throughout the year and direct heat gain in the winter.

-减少挥发性有机化合物

- Reduction of VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds)

-声学设计。顶盖屋顶提供了20%的降噪比标准铺设瓷砖天花板更好。

- Acoustic design. Tectum roof panels provide 20% better noise reduction compared to standard lay-in tile ceilings.

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-每间教室的多个照明水平将有助于保护环境。

- Multiple lighting levels in each classroom will facilitate conservation.

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-有效的暖通空调系统

- Efficient HVAC systems

-当地生产的建筑材料减少了建筑物的实际能量。

- Locally produced building materials reduce the embodied energies of the building.

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-用地下蓄水池收集雨水。有85%的屋顶排水沟是由3口喷口组成的

- Rainwater harvesting with underground cistern. 85% of the roof drains to a group of 3 downspouts that

将雨水引向一个1700加仑的水箱，为社区花园提供水。

direct the rainwater to a 1700 gallon cistern which provides water the community garden.

-X光景观设计

- Xeric landscaping

-高效率的水管装置

- Efficient plumbing fixtures

场地很紧，三面都有。这是设计和施工的一个具有后勤挑战性的方面。新幼儿园

The site was quite tight; bounded on three sides. This was a logistically challenging aspect of the design and construction. The new Kindergarten & Classroom Building replaced a cluster of 11 portable classrooms which were sited right in the center of the campus, where this permanent building needed to be placed. Portables were temporarily moved to the perimeter of the campus where the students occupied them for the duration of the construction. With the east-west orientation of the building, we were able to take advantage of passive solar. The Kinder Playground was sited directly to the south of the kindergarten classrooms so that each classroom could have direct access to it. A steel portal with concrete benches provides shade in the playground.

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