Industrial laboratory. -- --1 Drawing: 1 pencil on paper -- --1 Development drawing: offices -- --
File includes 10 photograph slides of model. The Al Falah Trust, in Makkah, commissioned a limited design competition for a boys' private school to accommodate 1 000 male students. It was the client's intention that the Makkah School would provide a model for the planning and design of two or three schools in different cities in Saudi Arabia. There were four main design objectives for the school: to support and enhance the progressive educational approach of the Al Falah Trust; to establish a clear physical identity for the school that reflects both its noble traditions and high academic ideals; to provide modem teaching facilities that include the latest technology, laboratories, and computer and audio visual aids; and to incorporate the traditional Islamic spatial concepts and motifs with particular respect and sympathy for the Mogul Islamic forms, while reflecting the spirit of the traditional architecture of the Hejaz in general and of Makkah in particular. The site was planned with an introverted form, with buildings extending right up to the limited site boundaries. Within the relatively opaque exterior walls, a series of courtyards were created, around which were located the main functional components and building masses. A colonnade was cut into the ground floor of most buildings to provide shade and soften the interior-exterior transition. Small domes or cupolas were used to give emphasis to a number of major elements of the complex including the entrances to each of the main buildings. The three main academic components - an elementary, secondary, and high school - were complemented by a 1 000-seat auditorium with backstage areas, a gymnasium and swimming pool complex, a central administration unit, a mosque, ancillary play fields, and parking. In addition to the school (19 500 m2), the project also included substantial commercial and residential development (10 400 m2) located along the major road that formed the site boundary on the north. This development both protected the school from extraneous traffic noise and provided it with a revenue source.
FIle consists of 87 drawings and 20 photographs prepared for Sheik Aid bin Naraya, Minister of Education, United Arab Emirates. The competition design prepared for this proposed University, in the oasis city of AI Ain in the United Arab Emirates, sought to provide a modem interpretation of the historical principles of Islamic design. The project was conceived as an axial plan with crossing axes at the entries to the various faculties, achieving their own specific identity. Particularly important was the need to weave the existing buildings of the University into the plan. An architectural vocabulary was developed as a reinterpretation of "desert" architecture, whereby walls were conceived massively in nature with small punched openings to admit light. Such walls protected the inner spaces from the harsh surrounding environment and these spaces were to be enriched in a variety of ways. Spaces were conceived in a hierarchical manner by means of size and finish material. Courtyards, some internalized and climate controlled, became the focus of the architecture, and were protected from the environment by high walls and overhead trellises. Each courtyard was provided with a decorative water feature and appropriate landscaping. In keeping with most Islamic buildings, particular emphasis was placed on the internal nature of space, doorways, passages, and gates to each space. The major entrance to the project is approached directly by the main axis where an enveloping semicircular administration building accepts visitors and dignitaries. The axial plan is broken only by the various "prayer" spaces, or Mosques, which turn in the direction of Mecca. Particularly important to the project were the series of gates at the axial entry points, giving the project its outward architectural richness.
Includes 4 plans; 2 elevations; 1 plan/elev ./sect.; 3 details: schedules, pipe trench, wall conditions at column, roof eaves, wall at circular stairs, plan, track, plaster, doors, window, women's locker room, swimming pool and gallery, sections.
Includes 5 plans; 2 elevations; 2 sections; 7 details: elevation/section, elevation section, soffit of cornice, plan, reflected ceiling plan; 1 other: heating and ventilation. Undated drawings include 14 by John S. Archibald and M. Perrault, Associate Architects, 1 by Saxe and Archibald, Architects, and 2 by John S. Archibald with A. Venne, Consulting Architect. Maurice Perrault died in 1909. From 1902 to 1913 or 1914, Archibald frequently practiced with Charles Saxe as Saxe & Archibald.
Preliminary drawing of existing site condition.
File consists of 1 preliminary layout (no project files).
File consists of 2 working drawings of alterations to bar, pantry and office. Also includes 1 project file.
File consists of architectural drawings for elementary school (south addition: 4 floors, 15 classrooms; north addition: 1 floor, gymnasium; brick and stone; wall bearing), including:
1 survey drawing: site plan
1 presentation drawing: front elevation
28 development drawings: foundation and footing plan, floor plans, roof plans, elevations, sections
35 working drawings: foundation and footing plan, floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections (including old building)
35 detail drawings: lavatory, entrance hall, windows, doors, cornice, screen, partition, lighting, blackboard, stonework, chimney, stairs, cement work, coal stove, panel, terracotta, door hood
3 shop drawings: wall plates, beam
34 consultant drawings: foundation plan, floor plans, roof plan, erection diagrams, trusses, frames and columns, boiler room, boiler, vent flue, exhauster, chimney
Gymnasium.
2 presentation drawings: exterior perspectives
5 photographs: 3 models; 2 perspectives
