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Pod House Barnehageinnredning by Liben Design Office

Pod House Barnehageinnredning by Liben Design Office is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award i Bronse in Interiør, Butikk- og Utstillingsdesign Competition Category.


BronseInteriør· 2021

Pod House Barnehageinnredning

by Liben Design Office

Client: Liben Design Office

A' Design Award i Bronse Winner in Interiør Category

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The Design

About Pod House Barnehageinnredning

Pod House er en barnehageinnredning skapt inne i en tidligere vaskeribygning i Xuhui-distriktet i Shanghai. Interiøret dekker et areal på 120 kvadratmeter. Den opprinnelige L-formede innhegningen er bevart, og et uregelmessig buet volum er tilføyd innenfor den. Den buede formen minner om en ertebelg, noe som gir designet dets navn. To sentrale takvinduer slipper dagslys inn, mens taket rommer en sirkulær bane og et lekeområde. Runde åpninger og overflater i rustfritt stål mykner opp de innvendige grensene. Oppbevarings-, stelle- og vaskeområder er plassert utenfor de buede veggene.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Bronse

Pod House Barnehageinnredning er vinner av A' Design Award i Bronse, en høyt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles enestående design som utmerker seg ved kreativitet, oppfinnsomhet og skarpsindighet. Bronsevinnere er rikt dyktige og påfallende kreative gjenstander som bekrefter designernes store erfaring, fantasi og ressurssterkhet. Pod House Barnehageinnredning forventes å være en høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt gjenstand som er bemerkelsesverdig profesjonell og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Bronse, rommer beste praksis innen kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi og utmerker seg ved sin omtanke for detaljer. Pod House Barnehageinnredning tilfredsstiller behov på en strålende måte, berører ønsker, sjarmerer følelser og vekker nysgjerrighet.

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.

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