CIFI Donut Kindergarten by Hu Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Competition Category.
SilverLandscape Design· 2020
CIFI Donut Kindergarten
by Hu Sun
Client: Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Landscape Design Category
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About CIFI Donut Kindergarten
CIFI Donut Kindergarten is attachedto a residential community. In order to create a preschool education activity place integrating practicability and beauty, it tries to combine the sales space with the education space. Through the ring structure linking the three-dimensional spaces, the building and landscape are harmoniously integrated, forming an activity place full of fun and educational significance.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
CIFI Donut Kindergarten is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. CIFI Donut Kindergarten is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. CIFI Donut Kindergarten is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle is the attention to human demand and individual destiny in the process of urbanization. Our design idea is ‘looking for the lost children's interest and childhood perspective’, to create a playful and educational site with children's positive growth, to help build children`s colorful mental space and psychological development. Inspired by the childhood perspective that is often used by the famous director - Kosturica, the design is to use the concept of childhood perspective to lead children into the air, creating many scenes beyond the daily.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main concern is the nature of children's education. Landscape architecture has its educational and social significance. To educate kindergarten children into a positive group that meets the standards of the world's citizens, more active and healthy outdoor spaces and places of enlightenment should be created.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I hope that the place is dynamic, if the kindergarten has positive potential chemical changes during the long-term use, child will benefit from this time segment, that is what we want to achieve most, we will maintain continuous attention and research on this topic.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- CIFI Donut Kindergarten is attached to a residential community. As one third of the outdoor space is on the roof of the building, the relationship between landscape and architecture is particularly closer. In accordance with the ring structure of outdoor space, we enrich the fun of this ring space by connecting various levels. Multi-level outdoor play tour not only helps integrating the interior and the outdoor spaces, but also stimulating the three-dimensional activity of the landscape space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Landscape design area: 6,773 square meters the building covers an area of 4,172 square meters
- Tags
- Kindergarten, children space ,three-dimensional space, ring structure
- Production Technology
- By using the tapered beam of the entrance roof, the thick structural parts are hidden out of the eyesight, which makes the roof lighter from people’s view.
The number of columns, which are required for stabilizing the slide, could be reduced by a decorative ring, using the mutual force. And finally, the slide space with a more spiral visual sense is presented, which is overlapped with the traffic system of the flying Gallery, forming a unique visual feeling. - Design Challenge
- The project has a high degree of integration between architecture and landscape, which also brings difficulties in the combination of multiple specialties. In order to solve the contradiction between the structure, kindergarten design specification and space creativity, the designer conducted more frequent inter-professional communication through network meeting and other more convenient ways. In the future, the network will be more and more developed, so that there will be a closer connection between different majors. Making good use of this will bring more inter-professional integration to projects.
- Research
- Through the actual big data research of network questionnaire survey conducted by WeChat (APP in mobile phone), three groups (children, parents and teachers) as research objects, were set up to implant corresponding functional modules. The results of this research further improve the spatial function.
- Inspiration
- "Donut" is the core concept of our design. Children are encouraged to run freely through the interesting circular space, as they are supposed to release their nature and enhance physical exercise.In the main space, there is a tree aiming to carry child's natural memory of childhood. Combining with the three-dimensional flow, children enjoy the joy of flying around the tree like sparrows. The funnies part is roof space. Feeling like playing on the air gives them more pleasure to take off at ease.
- Project Duration
- Project duration: May 2019 to October 2019
Location: Hefei, China - Operation Flow
- The architecture design and landscape elements are fully integrated in three dimensions, for it ensuring the accessibility among multi-level roofs, easily and interestingly. It makes the kindergarten a paradise for children to stay.
- Team Members
- Xiaochen Ma
Yu Wang
Huidi Wang
Zixuan Cheng
Zhi Li - Image Credits
- Image#1: Songkai Liu,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Bird Veiw
Image#2: Songkai Liu,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Slide
Image#3: Songkai Liu,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Terrace
Image#4: Xi Rao,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Solid Space
Image#5: Xi Rao,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Huge Sculpture
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