Hangzhou Haishu is a school complex that combines a kindergarten and a primary school. The campus includes teaching buildings, an administration building, a gym and a canteen. All functional spaces are linked in series by corridors and inner courtyards with different degrees of openness. Exposed stairs and dynamically shaped corridors serve both circulation and activity. The design was inspired by a child drawing of an ideal school seen as a small town. The campus of 28000 square metres is divided into 15 small gabled volumes, and each volume grows in scale with the age of the children.
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- Unique Properties
- Theproject of Hangzhou Haishu School with a kindergarten and a primary school. The school project consists of teaching buildings, an administration building, a gym, a canteen, etc. All the functional spaces are connected in series through corridors, inner courtyards and corridors of different opening degrees. Exposed stairs and corridors shaped dynamically are not only designed for circulation, but also for plenty of activity spaces.
- Inspiration
- It is inspired by a random impromptu child drawing that depictshis ideal school which is like a small town full of small scale spaces and “happy” streets.Based on this inspiration, architects divided the 28000sqm campus into 15 much smaller scale gabled volume. The scale of each volume gradually increases according to the growth of children’s ageand the variation in their behaviors. A comfortable campus environment is formed by small inner courtyards within and among these volumes.
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