International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼 by Chen Ximin

International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼 by Chen Ximin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

铜建筑· 2021

International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼

by Chen Ximin

Client: Edo Architects

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼

君谊国际部是位于北京的一栋中学教学楼。该项目将一座原有的篮球馆改造为教育空间，设置了普通教室、多功能活动室与共享区域。设计从中国古典园林中汲取灵感，通过折叠与错动的布局，结合廊道与平台，形成丰富的空间结构。天窗与开敞的窗洞将天光、天空与景观引入室内。立面结合耐候钢板、U型玻璃与玻璃幕墙，营造出三个层次的通透性，并在其中植入竹丛。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。International Department of Junyi 中学教学楼出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Inspired by the classic garden, the design adopted measures of opposite scenery, obstacle scenery,etc. To form a rich and zigzag spatial structure, which feature playful rooms arranged in proper density and order. Those playful spaces act as multifunctional classrooms and shared spaces. The spatial structure offer rich garden-like spaces. The combination of light and natural landscape and staggered corridors and platforms as shared spaces together constitute a dynamic "sightseeing garden".
Dimensions & Packaging: Area: 2942 sqm
Cost: About 8 millions RMB
Type: Middle school
Tags: Junyi School, Education building, EDO ARCHITECTS , Chen Ximin, Flow Garden
Production Technology: The exterior facade is composed of weathering steel panel, U-shaped glass and glass curtain wall. Three kinds of materials divide the facade into three levels of transparency, from opaque, translucent to transparent. And bamboo trees are inserted into the facade, making it more playful and rich. The combination of rigid weathering steel panel and elegant U-shaped glass forms a sharp contrast, which embodies exchanges of ideas and cultures of East and West.
Design Challenge: The space prototype can be summarized by the word "garden". It is difficult to make the study space into a "garden" in the limited space of 800sqm, and the school wants more rooms. In addition, under the contemporary education model, the classroom cannot be completely open to the outside. Therefore, we plan to create a kind of "garden like" space, and give the space timeliness and fluidity. We added "Flow" to the design to get "Flow Garden". This is similar to the method of classical garden.
Research: The "garden" is placed in the center of the stadium space to form a "garden " of the interior space by opening Windows to the sky. The classrooms are located east and west and open to the outside for natural light and ventilation. The north entrance hall opens to the playground, giving the interior "garden" a view. The skylight at the top provides light and sky for the "garden". This makes the line of sight and the full flow, in line with the description of "flow ".
Inspiration: In order to improve the situation of increasingly overcrowded classrooms, the architectural design team was entrusted to transform the original basketball arena into an educational space for the International Department of Beijing Private Junyi Middle School. In addition to ordinary classrooms, the school also wants to have enough multi-functional activity rooms and communication space for children's free discussion.
Project Duration: Design period: 2018.4- 2018.9
Construction period: 2018.5-2019.9
Location: Beijing
Operation Flow: Architects intended to create a "garden-like" space, which introduces light, sky and natural landscape into the interior to provide a vibrant studying environment.
The staggered arrangement, along with the folded layout and the facade with different degrees of transparency, creates a playful "garden-styled" teaching building. The turning and folding design ways render people sensitive to the environment physically and mentally, thereby experiencing the "sightseeing garden" subconsciously.
Team Members: Architect: Chen Ximin
Design team: LiuYan, Jiang Bowen
Image Credits: Jin Weiqi