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Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi Middle School by Zhubo Design Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Zhubo Design recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi Middle School by Zhubo Design has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi Middle School
Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi is a middle school designed for 2,100 students in 42 classes in Longhua District, Shenzhen. The campus covers about 23,000 square meters, with a total construction area of 58,000 square meters. Openings are subtracted from the dense classroom blocks and joined by public bridges, forming a three-dimensional circulation of informal meeting spaces. Colorful stairs, platforms and small volumes fill these openings. A public steps square 25 meters wide links the sports areas at the east and west ends and can also host community activities.
About Zhubo Design
Founded in 1996, Zhubo Design is mainly engaged in architectural design and relevant design and consulting services ranging from architectural design to urban planning, landscape design, interior design, etc., and is committed to the comprehensive development of the industrial chain of design and architectural technologies. After more than 20 years of development, we have expanded design services including prefabricated architecture, BIM technology, green building, sponge city, intelligent building andrelevant consulting services.
Award Record
This recognition makes Zhubo Design a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2023 - 2024 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/156103
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/156103
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!156103
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/326387
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://tinyurl.com/yp8yakut
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi Middle School
- Function
- Middle School
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Light Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhubo Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #156103
Credits
- Team
- Qiao Zhong and Yuhua Wu, Tiantian Zhang, Jingyang Peng, Xin Huang, Xiaoting Zheng, Hengsi Ma, Dongmin Li, Qiwen Cai
- Image Credits
- Qingshan Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design uses the method of subtraction, digging holes in the dense classroom array and adding public bridges to create an Mobius Ring type of public space system of informal communication with three-dimensional spatial circulation. In these pleasant-scale holes, the colorful and livelys staircases, platforms and small buildings create varied and individual spaces, making the campus a wonderful place that can continuously stimulate children's curiosity and imagination.
- Inspiration
- What we promote is to design school with the concept that returns to the student-oriented and services for education rather than from the perspective of teachers or adults. With it, we finally reate an open, personalized, diversified and multi-level communication space, and win a three-dimensional complex shared campus space.
- Research
- The project is located in Longhua District, Shenzhen. It accommodates 2,100 students with 42 classes. The campus covers an area of 23,000 square meters and has a total construction area of 58,000 square meters.The urban environment around the campus is dominated by dense urban villages and industrial areas. The public space of the surrounding community is extremely scarce, and the cultural community facilities are also seriously insufficient. We hope that the construction of the school would be an opportunity to moderately solve this local community problem.
- Challenge
- How to combine the 10-meter height difference between the north and south of the base and the extreme shortage of public space and community cultural facilities in the surrounding communities to creat an open, personalized, diversified and multi-level communication space, and win a three-dimensional complex shared campus space.
- Realization and Technology
- The 1st and 2nd teaching buildings use the frame structure, and the dormitory building uses the frame shear wall structure. In order to avoid the influence of falling columns on the lower space, the corridor in the middle of the teaching building adopts the steel structure corridor with 27 meters long span. There are two and a half basements in this project, some functional spaces, such as basketball courts and lecture halls were set up here. It uses the structure form of large-span concrete unidirectional secondary beam to ensure the large space without any columns.
- Operation and Interaction
- Architects pioneered the dumbbell-shape model of main public space with the dual-sport area. Sports facilities such as sports fields and gymnasiums are stereoscopic arranged at the east and west of this elongated campus, and, in the middle, a complex and three-dimensional public steps square with a width of 25M is used as a traffic connection, which becomes block-type core public space system of the school. Many open public activities of the school and the community also can be held here.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2019 in Shenzhen and finished in 2021 .
- Specifications
- Total land area: 22314.25 square metre; Total construction area: 58124 square metre; Volume rate: 2.18; Building height: 41.15; Number of floors: 11
- Keywords
- Event container, High floor area ratio, Community sharing, Public communication circle,New type of educational complex
