△ Photographed in October 2021, Pingshan, Shenzhen © SEED
A few days ago, I saw the introduction of Shenzhen's "New Campus Action Plan" in a seat, which talked about some of the experiences that made us deeply touched. Just when the Fairview School was at the top, I thought of reorganizing the design process of the Fairview School, summarizing the gains and losses, and helping the Shenzhen "New Campus Action Plan".
The project is located in Pingshan District, Shenzhen City, with a land area of 24,400 square meters, a total construction area of about 80,000 square meters, and a floor area ratio of 2.5. Our mission is to rationally arrange the teaching space of 54 classes and more than 140 teachers' apartments in the nine-year system, including primary and secondary school classrooms, various professional classrooms, libraries, gymnasiums, swimming pools, performing arts lecture halls, teachers' dormitory buildings, primary and secondary school student canteens, teachers' canteens and professional sports playgrounds.
The plot ratio of 2.5 is usually an indicator of a commercial complex, and our design should also develop in the direction of an organic combination of composite functions like an educational complex.
The west side of the project is a high-rise community, the south side is an urban secondary artery, the north side is an urban green space, and the east side is adjacent to a reserved development land. The entire plot of land is small, how to meet the needs of the function under the limited land use conditions can create enough activity space, become the core point of the design.
Mountain views are incorporated into the campus
In the northeast direction of the project is Julongshan Park with good vegetation, which can be seen at the ground level of the campus, and on the north side is an urban green belt with a width of nearly 100 meters, and there is a water system in the plan.
In order to allow more space on campus to enjoy the view of Julong Mountain, the shape of the building has been twisted to open the courtyard. We placed the teacher's apartment at the end of the body, forming a streamlined posture as a whole, and truly integrated the external scenery into the campus. Students can walk out of the classroom during recess and take to the mountain in the hallway, soothing tired eyes and reconnecting with nature.
△ Look west to Julong Mountain
The green belt on the north side forms an enlarged parent waiting area
The north side road is a relatively quiet four-lane, tree-lined road, and we have arranged the main entrance of the entire school on the north side. Elementary school students have heavy pick-up and drop-off tasks during the school hours, so the location of the elementary school is close to the main entrance, facing the municipal park, so that parents can wait for the time when school is out and rest in the park.
△ North side main entrance and parent waiting area
In our childhood memories, there must be campus life. Under the trees, on the steps, between the corridors... Vivid scenes make up memories of the campus. Instead of following the traditional method from whole to minute, we first constructed a fragment with memory points, and finally the campus can be seen as a living container carrying memory.
< Strategy One >
A three-dimensionally expanded public event space
In the near future, there will be 3,000 students living on this 2.4-hectare campus, in order to create more space for students to move, vertical space combination becomes a necessary means.
We look for activity spaces underground and roof, with the help of large landscape steps, vertical traffic spaces, etc. to connect different heights of activity spaces, as if a garden on a two-dimensional plane is stretched vertically, and the entire campus becomes a three-dimensional "garden":
1 / The playground is raised one level to free up space on the ground
2 / Dig down the courtyard to bring natural light and event space underground
3 / One floor is overhead, creating a weather-free activity space while also compounding the functional space of public attributes in the overhead layer
4 / Make the most of the roof space, create a roof garden, and increase the event space
△ The raised playground is connected to the second floor of the teaching area through the platform, and the vast playground also provides an excellent landscape for the teaching area, and the teaching area and the sports area complement each other
< Strategy 2 >
Rich natural gardens
Being close to nature can improve the observation ability of children and adolescents, broaden their horizons, improve their emotional expression ability, and help them grow. There are three forms of integration with nature on campus:
roof garden
Make full use of the roof space to create a roof garden that combines garden and test field. Expand students' learning space and leisure space, which is interlaced by a variety of green open spaces that are enclosed, semi-enclosed and fully open.
Sunken courtyard
By digging the ground down, the underground and aboveground are opened up outdoors, forming a three-dimensional courtyard, which maximizes the natural space on campus and is also an extension of classrooms and activity exchange spaces.
Terraced garden
Taking advantage of the height change of the roof of the lecture hall on the first floor, we arranged a large staircase garden to enrich the students' extracurricular activity space, while the large steps also connected the teaching space on the ground and the public space on the ground.
△ This is a place where we think it will be more lively in the future: under the trees, you can sit in groups of three or five on one step to chat and brag; on the other step, children are watching other friends on the platform doing games. Called by classmates upstairs, stared at by teachers in the library
< Strategy Three >
Free-flowing space
The traditional determinant layout of the campus mainly relies on the vertical and horizontal corridors in series, and the space type is single, which cannot meet the diversified space required by the modern education model. We strive to break this traditional layout model, with the help of the continuity and organicity of the architectural form, to build a tortuous street, and this "curved street" is also the main space for children to communicate and interact between classes.
The first and second floors of the overhead floor contain lecture halls, exhibition halls, discussion rooms, professional classrooms and other teaching spaces that adapt to various teaching modes, and the high-density building volume and complex teaching functions are efficiently and organically integrated.
The orange ceiling connects the campus to the courtyards, and even during the rainy season in the south, students can reach locations without having to wear umbrellas.
On the ground, a relaxing space is created by concave the second floor of the auxiliary room of the gymnasium.
The corridor on the fourth floor with a span of 20 meters connects the two teaching areas in the north and south, so that the entire teaching area is integrated, and the space under the corridor can also become a good viewing place for students to watch the stadium activities.
The "curved" and "folded" corridors are connected by a series of interesting staircases that connect the elevated floor to the sunken courtyard where the restaurant is located.
< Strategy Four >
Soft and bright light
The high FAR condition has led to some high-density functional space combinations, and how to introduce abundant natural light to high-density spaces is the focus of our design. The "light chamber" generated by the roof skylight, the "light waterfall" produced by blowing out the space, the "light bucket" produced by the sunken courtyard, the "light band" produced by the strip window... Different forms of "light" are passed on to students.
△ Skylight in the public area of the complex
△ Two-storey library
△ Sunken green space can transition light to the stadium
△ Dance classroom with lighting on both sides
△ The light from the overhead floor will gently sprinkle into the underground restaurant
The increase in urban population has led to the shortage of social public resources, and schools are important social public places, but students are idle during the holidays, resulting in a waste of public resources. Therefore, the local government proposed in the early stage of design that some of the school facilities will be opened to the surrounding communities in the future. With this in mind, we designed the stylistic functions that will be shared in the future close to the entrance, including functional spaces such as libraries, gymnasiums and sports fields.
The design of Fairview School is an exploration of high-density campus building types, through which we have responded to a series of high-standard design requirements using a variety of space and design methods, and finally come up with a reasonable and efficient solution.
"We hope that this school can better integrate into the surrounding communities and cities, and look forward to creating more romance and surprises on this campus in the future, stimulating the imagination and creativity of each child, and realizing spatial innovation and environmental education as the goal of a new type of school."
The above descriptions, there are a lot of "hopes" and "expectations", the original design concept of Fairview School, now look back, basically "third person" in the design. Indeed, most of the buildings are the architect's will, how the user thinks, how to use, good or not, like it or not, many times the wood has become a boat, the user can only adapt to the built shell. But educational architecture, we think is a very special type, it has a profound impact on the character development of adolescents. "Environmental education" should not be just a slogan, but should take root.
What do kids want? What does the teacher want? What do parents want? The answers to these questions are particularly important in the design of new schools in the future and in the review and inspection of Fairview School.
Next year (2022), Fairview School will be put into use, and we must look again at the story that actually happened here.
Technical drawings
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△ Base area location
Project information
Project Name 丨 Fairview School
Project Location 丨Pingshan District, Shenzhen City
Land area 丨 24,400㎡
Building area丨 73,518㎡
Owner丨Shenzhou Pingshan District Construction and Public Works Bureau Shenzhen Pingshan District Education Bureau
China Resources (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. < >
Design Consortium丨Shenzhen Tianhua Architectural Design Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Chengyu Architectural Design Institute)
Architectural Scheme 丨 SEED+Shenzhen Tianhua: Liu Ben, Huang Zhiqiang, Lv Jicai, Liu Jian, Su Shenghui, Ma Xuezheng, Zhang Chuanyin, Su Huachao, Huang Qingling, Tang Jingxiu, Jiang Mengya
Building Construction Drawing丨Shenzhou Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Chengyu Architectural Design Institute)
Design cycle丨2018-2020
It is expected to be completed in 2022
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