Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium by Liben Design Office

Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium by Liben Design Office is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

AesInterior· 2021

Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium

by Liben Design Office

Client: Liben Design Office

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium

Domus Pisi est interius ludi infantium intra aedificium lavandariae olim in regione Xuhui, Shanghai, extructum. Interius spatium centum viginti metra quadrata continet. Forma originalis L litterae similis retinetur, et intra eam volumen irregulare arcus formam habens additur. Forma curvata siliquam pisi revocat, quae consilio nomen dat. Duae fenestrae tectae centrales lucem diei intus afferunt, dum tectum semitam circularem et locum ludendi continet. Aperturae rotundae et superficies ex acie ferri inoxidabili terminos interiores molliunt. Loca custodiae, vestimentorum mutationis et lavationis extra parietes curvatos spatium occupant.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Pod House Munus Ludi Infantium Interius Consilium necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The project is located at a kindergarten in Xuhui district of Shanghai with enclosed L-shaped. The south and west sides of the base are intensely close to the wall and adjacent to the residential area. The internal facilities are placed at the east side, while the north side is the internal road of the kindergarten. The original function of the project is the abandoned laundry.
Dimensions & Packaging: Covering an area of 120 square meters, this is a typical project like casting masterpieces in the pigeonholes.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Kindergarten, Nursery School, Modern, Simple, Natural, Art
Production Technology: The roof has kept the shape of pods, setting up a circular roof track and a playground for children. Two center skylights provide sufficient lighting for the pea house. A small climbing slope is designed around the circular skylights. A pod-shaped skylight serves as a glass path for children to explore. The relationship between the sight lines from skylights also makes the dialogue in the space more vivid and interesting.
Design Challenge: It is asked for making the laundry be rebuilt into a space for students' demands of learning and dancing. Complying with some requirements, the building boundary is not allowed to be over the original campus wall, and the height is not allowed to be out of the original building height. Those external pools, rockery, and other facilities are needed to be retained.
Research: Urban renewal is becoming one of the important roles in urban development. In addition to community and business renovation, some schools in the city center are also faced with the problem of land shortage and unable to expand. Therefore, it is worth thinking to solve the problem how to make effective transformation and utilization of the existing campus site for extension of functions and more spaces under constraint conditions.
Inspiration: How to outline a fun space for activities and class of children and teachers in this small venue is the initial starting point of the design. Children are lively. They are good runners and explorers. Therefore, the design attempts to build a space that satisfies the curiosity of children and taps the potential of sports based on their activity and psychological characteristics.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2018 in Shanghai and finished in August 2019 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: Those indoor different-sized round holes together with the specular reflection of stainless steel and circular skylights of furred ceiling blurred indoor boundary, meanwhile increased dimensional interest.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Name Lei Dong, 2019.
Team Members: Qian Li
Nicolas Bai
Fang He
Huifang Sun
Yinmei Li
Jiawei Tian
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Lei Dong, Pod House, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Lei Dong, Pod House, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Lei Dong, Pod House, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Lei Dong, Pod House, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Lei Dong, Pod House, 2019.