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OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu

OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Volafotsy in Famolavolana Habaka Anatiny ary Fampisehoana Competition Category.


VolafotsyAnatiny· 2021

OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe

by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu

Client: Kimber Hawson Design Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Volafotsy Winner in Anatiny Category

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The Design

About OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe

Book Text: Ny OneSmart International Education dia ny anaty foiben'ny marika fanabeazana sinoa ao amin'ny Distrikan'i Putuo, ao Shanghai. Ny anatiny dia mibodo trano manana rihana iraika ambin'ny folo tamin'ny taonjato lasa ary mirefy 12000 metatra toradroa. Ny toerana dia manohana ny asa birao andavanandro, ny fivoriana ary ny hetsika fanabeazana ho an'ny besinimaro. Ny fametrahana miolikolika vita amin'ny hazo fisaka nampifandraisina dia mandalo ny trano manontolo ary mampihena ny lanjan'ny andry ara-drafitra amin'ny sehatry ny fidirana tery. Ny loko manga sy fotsy dia mifangaro amin'ny loko hazo mafana. Ny tohatra miolikolika dia mampifandray ny faritra fandraisam-bahiny amin'ny rihana voalohany sy faharoa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Volafotsy

Nandresy ny A' Design Award Volafotsy ny famolavolana OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe, fankasitrahana malaza be omena ny famolavolana ambaratonga ambony, tsara tarehy ary mahavariana. Ny mpandresy Volafotsy dia asa mamirapiratra dia mamirapiratra ary mamorona dia mamorona izay maneho ny fahaizana, ny talenta ary ny fahamaotinan-tsain'ny mpamolavola azy. Andrasana ho asa mahagaga, ohatra tsara, mahay amin'ny asa ary vaovao amin'ny halalin-tsaina ny famolavolana OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Volafotsy ity dia fikarohana miavaka be ary ankafizina izay mahasoa ary mampandroso ny sisintanin'ny zavakanto, ny siansa, ny famolavolana ary ny teknolojia. Ny famolavolana OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Famolavolana Anaty Foibe dia famoronana mahazo fitaka be izay mamaly ny faniriana, mitondra fihetseham-po tsara ary mamelona fahagagana sy fahatalanjonana.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
OneSmart International Education, one of the leading Chinese education brands listed on the NYSE, has many branch product lines and brand divisions. The new headquarters, located in an 11-floor old building of the last century in Putuo District, Shanghai, has a total floor area of 12000 square meters. It is able to meet the needs of daily office work, meetings and all kinds of public benefit education activities.
Dimensions & Packaging
The area is 12000 sqm.
Tags
Education, Technology, Office, Bright, Comfortable
Production Technology
The building entrance area is narrow and separated by the original structural columns into trivial and irregular small spaces. In the light of these defects, the designers splice planks into arc-shaped large space art devices throughout the building, which give the building space a sense of continuity and visual extension, weakening the volume of the original structural columns and maximizing the visual expansion of the sense of space.
Design Challenge
The new headquarters is located in a century-old building in Putuo District, Shanghai. Due to the original building structure and site conditions, the entrance area of the new headquarters only has less than 400 square meters of space, and the interior is scattered with 9 structural columns, cut into smaller, more trivial and irregular spaces.
Research
In order to avoid the sense of visual intimidation upon entering the building, and to be more in line with the spatial design of the new headquarters, the design uses a large spatial installation with a sense of continuity and visual extension to make the columns look smaller and to maximize the sense of space.
Inspiration
The design is based on the traditional Chinese cultural elements, and the reproduction of the design language from the formal language to highlight the national style of the theme.

In this design, we take "yearly higher", "auspicious clouds and dragon", "high mountains and flowing water" and "neatly stacked" as the design theme, extracting the elements, combining with the space and complementing each other.
Project Duration
The project started in December 2019 in Shanghai and finished in May 2020 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow
The overall architectural space adopts the dynamic blue and white tone, supplemented by the warm wood color to create an open, bright and comfortable office and educational environment. The staircase connecting the first floor and the second floor reception area takes the spiral shape, which reduces the visual tightness of the whole space and creates a comfortable and warm welcoming atmosphere.
Team Members
Benny Ren
LongYang Liu
Shadow Shi
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.

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