Pod House Kupanga Mkati mwa Kindergarten by Liben Design Office is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award in Mapangidwe a Mkati mwa Nyumba ndi Mawonekedwe Competition Category.
BronzeMkati· 2021
Pod House Kupanga Mkati mwa Kindergarten
Client: Liben Design Office
Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award Winner in Mkati Category
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About Pod House Kupanga Mkati mwa Kindergarten
Pod House ndi mapangidwe amkati a kindergarten opangidwa mkati mwa nyumba yakale yosambira zovala mu dera la Xuhui, ku Shanghai. Mkatimo muli malo okhala masikweya mita 120. Chomangira choyambirira cha mawonekedwe a L chasungidwabe, ndipo mkati mwake mwaonjezedwa gawo lopindika losafanana. Mawonekedwe opindikawa amakumbutsa za khungu la nsawawa, zomwe zapatsa mapangidwewa dzina lawo. Mawindo awiri apakati amabweretsa kuwala kwa dzuwa mkati, pamene denga limakhala ndi njira yozungulira komanso malo osewerera. Zipata zozungulira ndi mapangidwe a chitsulo chosapanda dzimbiri zimafewetsa malire a mkati mwa nyumbayo. Malo osungiramo zinthu, osinthiramo zovala, ndi osambiramo ali kunja kwa makonde opindikawo.
The Recognition
About the Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award
Pod House Kupanga Mkati mwa Kindergarten ndi mmodzi mwa opambana a Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award, kuzindikirika kolemekezeka kwambiri komwe kumaperekedwa kwa mapangidwe abwino kwambiri omwe amaonekera ndi luso lolenga, kuchenjera ndi nzeru zakuthwa. Opambana a Bronze ndi zinthu zaluso kwambiri ndi zolenga modabwitsa zomwe zimatsimikizira zochitika zazikulu, kulingalira ndi kuchenjera kwa opanga awo. Pod House Kupanga Mkati mwa Kindergarten akuyembekezeka kukhala chinthu choyamikiridwa, chosirira ndi chokondedwa, chaukatswiri wapadera ndi chatsopano. Mapangidwe opambana Mphoto ya Bronze ya A' Design Award awa amaphatikiza machitidwe abwino kwambiri a luso, sayansi, kapangidwe ndi ukadaulo ndipo ndi abwino kwambiri chifukwa cha kusamala kwawo zazing'ono. Pod House Kupanga Mkati mwa Kindergarten amakwaniritsa zosowa mokongola, kukhudza zilakolako, kukopa mitima ndi kudzutsa chidwi.
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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