Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto by Liben Design Office

Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto by Liben Design Office is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

ParahiRoto Whare· 2021

Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto

by Liben Design Office

Client: Liben Design Office

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto

Ko Pod House he hoahoa o roto mō tētahi kōhanga reo, i hangaia i roto i tētahi whare horoi tawhito i te rohe o Xuhui, Shanghai. Ko te horahanga o roto he 120 mita tapawhā. Ka pupurihia te ārai āhua-L taketake, ā, ka tāpiritia ki roto he kōrahi āhua-toa kūare. Ko te āhua piko e whakamahara ana ki te kōpuni pī, nō reira i puta mai ai te ingoa o te hoahoa. E rua ngā matapihi-tuarangi kei te pokapū e kawe mai ana i te mārama o te rā ki roto, ā, kei runga i te tuanui he ara porowhita me tētahi wāhi tākaro. Ko ngā puare porotaka me ngā mata rino kore-waikura e whakangāwari ana i ngā rohe o roto. Ko ngā wāhi rokiroki, whakarākei kākahu, me te horoi kei waho o ngā pakitara piko.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto te toa o te A' Design Award Parahi, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke e tohua ana mā te auaha, te mahi mōhio me te whakaaro hōhonu. Ko ngā toa Parahi he mahi pukenga e rite ana, he auaha mīharo, e whakatūturu ana i te wheako nui, te whakaaro me te mōhio-ā-ringa o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto he taonga whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he ngaio, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Parahi e whakauru ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa i te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau, ā, he tino mīharo ki ngā taipitopito. Ka whakatutuki a Pod House Kohanga Reo Hoahoa o Roto i ngā hiahia, ka pā ki ngā hiahia, ka whakaoho i ngā kare-ā-roto, ā, ka kume i te pākiki.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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.