Security Concept

1. Technology integration

Wiring the entire school—including the outdoors—is necessary, architects agree,

and projectors, screens, and sound systems are migrating out of classrooms and into
hallways, common spaces, cafeterias, and even stairwells. Students can access the network
anywhere on campus, and view and share work on digital displays throughout the building.
The effects can be subversive in all the right ways, reducing students’ dependence on the
teacher, promoting peer-to-peer collaboration, and widening the sphere of learning from
the confines of the classroom to the whole school grounds.

2. Plan for Fire Protection

Planning for fire protection for a building involves a systems approach that
enables the designer to analyze all the building's components as a total building fire
safety system package.

3. Protect Occupant Safety and Health

Some injuries and illnesses are related to unsafe or unhealthy building design and
operation. These can usually be prevented by measures that take into account issues such
as indoor air quality, electrical safety, fall protection, ergonomics, and accident
prevention.

4. Natural Hazards Mitigation

Each year U.S. taxpayers pay over $35 billion for recovery efforts, including
repairing damaged buildings and infrastructure, from the impacts of hurricanes, floods,
earthquakes, tornados, blizzards, and other natural disasters. A significant percentage of
 this amount could be saved if our buildings properly anticipated the risk associated with
major natural hazards.

5. Provide Security for Building Occupants and Assets

Effective secure building design involves implementing countermeasures to deter,

detect, delay, and respond to attacks from human aggressors. It also provides for
mitigating measures to limit hazards to prevent catastrophic damage and provide
resiliency should an attack occur.

Materials Concept

1. Sustainable Building Materials

A sustainable architecture takes account of the use of resources (energy, natural resources), their
environmental impact and the specific risks to people´s safety. Green building, or sustainable
design, is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy,
water, and materials, and of reducing impacts on human health and the environment for the entire
lifecycle of a building. It minimizes its negative effects on the environment by efficient use of
energy, materials and suitable space
planning. easily.

2. Acoustics Materials

Sounds can assist in providing orientation clues about a space. The key for the designer is to utilize
the Acoustics.

3. Textured/Tactile Warnings

Use of different concrete bricks and stones for pathway; and tactile signs, textured (with any
pattern) to signify an end space warning, and guides on walls which is made of woods and other
natural resources. Texture can assist in providing orientation clues about a space. The key for the
designer is to utilize the texture optimally.