Learning Landscape Escola Primária por People's Architecture Office

O design Learning Landscape Escola Primária por People's Architecture Office é um vencedor altamente estimado do prestigioso 2026 A' Design Award de Prata na Categoria de Competição Design de Arquitetura, Edifícios e Estruturas.

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Learning Landscape Escola Primária

por People's Architecture Office

Cliente: People's Architecture Office (PAO)

Vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata na Categoria Arquitetura

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O Design

Sobre Learning Landscape Escola Primária

Learning Landscape é uma escola primária em Shenzhen, na China. Com 20.535 metros quadrados, o projeto substitui a rígida disposição de salas de aula e corredores por espaços interiores e exteriores interligados. Três elementos inspirados na natureza, denominados a Montanha, o Vale e a Praia, organizam os níveis escalonados. Os alunos circulam livremente entre salas de aula, áreas cobertas, coberturas verdes e espaços intersticiais abertos. A vegetação distribuída por todo o terreno proporciona sombra e reduz o calor. O projeto favorece as aulas, o trabalho em grupo, a brincadeira e o estudo silencioso.

O Reconhecimento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Prata

Learning Landscape Escola Primária conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Learning Landscape Escola Primária seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Learning Landscape Escola Primária é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

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Propriedades Únicas: Wuzhou Elementary School is a 20,535 sqm three-dimensional Learning Landscape in Shenzhen, redefining primary education space with a student-centered, exploration-driven design that abandons rigid classroom-corridor layouts. Structured around three iconic natural landscape-inspired elements—the Mountain, Valley and Beach—it features gradient, interconnected indoor-outdoor spaces blurring interior-exterior boundaries, enabling diverse learning modes from formal classes to open play and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Integrated vegetation mitigates Shenzhen’s tropical climate and urban heat island effect, while terraced areas, green roofs and interstitial spaces foster visual/physical continuity. As an urban green extension linked to the northern public park, the school adapts to evolving educational needs, merging nature, play and learning to nurture creativity and hands-on ability, standing out as a model for innovative, eco-friendly urban primary education architecture.
Dimensões e Embalagem: Building Area: 20,535 square meters
Site Area: 7820 square meters
Height Limit: 24 m
Floor Area Ratio (FAR) : 2.11
Etiquetas: education, primary school, learning landscape
Tecnologia de Produção: The project adopts a landscape urbanism design methodology, integrating architectural spatial planning with landscape engineering to construct a three-dimensional Learning Landscape. Stepped terrain construction technology is applied to the Mountain, Valley and Beach core nodes, realizing vertical circulation and multi-functional terracing for seating/performances. Green infrastructure integration techniques are employed for full-site vegetation deployment, combining tropical climate-adaptive plant species selection with green roof engineering to achieve passive cooling, pollution filtration and urban heat island mitigation. Interstitial space optimization and indoor-outdoor boundary blurring are realized via open building envelope design and flexible partition technology. Structural design for the North Courtyard Mountain adopts customized spatial frame systems to balance architectural form and structural stability, with cross-disciplinary collaboration across landscape, interior, lighting and structural engineering teams ensuring design integrity and constructability.
Desafio de Design: The core challenge was reconciling three critical demands: redefining rigid traditional educational spatial logic to fit student-centered exploratory learning, integrating natural landscape design with architectural functionality in Shenzhen’s dense urban core, and balancing creative spatial form with structural feasibility and tropical climate adaptability. Externally, we faced constraints of urban land use regulations, the need to mitigate the urban heat island effect from surrounding commercial development, and technical limits to realizing large-scale indoor-outdoor boundary blurring. Internally, the challenge lay in breaking the historical classroom-centric educational paradigm and aligning the innovative Learning Landscape concept with educators’ practical teaching needs. We overcame these by cross-disciplinary collaborative design, custom structural engineering for core landscape nodes, scientific selection of tropical adaptive vegetation, and iterative participatory discussions with educators to optimize spatial flexibility and functional practicality.
Pesquisa: Against Shenzhen’s innovation-driven urban shift and the demand for student-centered education, this applied design research explores integrating innovative educational concepts with urban campus architecture. It combines qualitative analysis of global educational space cases, quantitative research on local primary school learning needs, and participatory discussions with educators, students and experts, using field surveys, interviews and spatial simulation tools for data collection. The research developed the three-dimensional Learning Landscape framework with Mountain, Valley and Beach as core elements, creating a flexible campus space that blends indoor and outdoor areas and integrates nature. It verifies that nature-embedded educational spaces boost students’ curiosity and collaboration, providing a replicable model for urban primary education architecture, and promotes the integration of campus and urban green infrastructure to mitigate the urban heat island effect and advance sustainable urban development.
Inspiração: Inspired by Shenzhen’s shift to an innovation-driven economy, we sought to reimagine elementary education spaces by breaking the rigid classroom-centric paradigm of traditional schools. Drawing on the organic diversity of natural landscapes, we created a three-dimensional Learning Landscape to prioritize student-centered creativity, play and hands-on exploration, aligning educational space with the needs of a new era.
Duração do Projeto: Location: Shenzhen, China
Time: 2020–2025
Fluxo de Operação: Wuzhou Elementary School operates as a flexible, student-led learning ecosystem with fluid spatial flow that eliminates fixed classroom-corridor boundaries. Students move freely between indoor classrooms and outdoor covered areas, Mountain/Valley/Beach zones, and open interstitial spaces, switching seamlessly between formal learning, group collaboration, hands-on play and nature exploration. The terraced landscapes and undulating terrain act as natural gathering spots for informal exchanges, while the connected green roofs, library and sports facilities create a continuous vertical learning path. This open interaction model adapts to diverse learning needs—supporting individual study, cross-class projects and school-wide events alike. By blending learning with daily movement and play, the space fosters spontaneous curiosity and collaboration, making education a natural, immersive experience rather than a confined activity.
Membros da Equipa: Principals: He Zhe, James Shen, Zang Feng
Project Team: Li Zhenghua, Kim Dahyun, Xu Jialing, Yang Qian, Wang Dawei, Wang He, Li Qiuwan, Zhang Yichen, Li Zhenghua, Wang Chengchen, Yuan Yingying, Luo Qinming, Jiang Ying, Hu Zhi'an, Lin Mingkai, Wang Guyixin，Guo Mingran，Xu Huihang
Créditos de Imagem: Main image-North courtyard night ©Zhu Yumeng
#1-Looking towards the natural park from south to north ©Zhu Yumeng
#2-Entrance mount ©Zhu Yumeng
#3-Southwest corner street scene @Zhu Yumeng
#4-Library ©Zhu Yumeng