Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants by Liben Design Office

Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants by Liben Design Office is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Interior Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2021

Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants

by Liben Design Office

Client: Liben Design Office

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants

Pod House es un interior de jardin d'enfants creat dins un ancian bastiment de bugadariá dins lo districte de Xuhui, a Shanghai. L'interior cobrís una superfícia de 120 mètres carrats. Lo tancament original en forma de L es conservat, e un volum arcuat irregular i es ajustat. La forma courba rapèla una gossa de pese, çò que dona son nom a la concepcion. Doas lucarnas centralas amenan la lutz del jorn a l'interior, e lo teit sosten un circuit circular e un espaci de jòc. D'obertura redondas e de superfícias d'acièr inoxidable adoçan las frontièras interioras. Los espacis d'emmagazinatge, de cambiament e de lavatge ocupan l'espaci en defòra de las paretas courbadas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze, una reconeissença plan prestigiosa acordada a de designs excellents que se destrian per la creativitat, l'engenh e la finessa. Los ganhaires del Bronze son d'artefactes largament abils e sorprenentament creatius que provan la vasta experiéncia, l'imaginacion e l'engenhositat de lors designers. S'espèra que Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants siá un objècte fòrça considerat, admirat e estimat, notablament professional e innovant. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze integra las melhoras practicas de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia e es excellent per son atencion al detalh. Pod House Concepcion Interiora de Jardin d'Enfants satisfa esplendidament los besonhs, toca los desirs, encanta los sentiments e interèssa la curiositat.

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.