The proposed campus is located in the Linjiaba Science Innovation Valley in Chengdu. The area connects a financial and business district with a science and technology ecological park, and relies on the “site momentum” of Linjiaba TOD to depict a new version of biotechnology that integrates industry and city.
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Educational Architecture (Concept)
Firm
Chengdu Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd (CDAD)
Architect/Designer
Xu Shangyun
Design Team
Deng Aisong, Wang Zherui, Li Jieyuan, Tang Yicong, Gong Rui, Zhang Jingzhou
Location
Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Country
China
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©CDAD
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http://www.cdadri.com/
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The surrounding planning of the site includes residential, commercial, and service facilities, as well as parks and green spaces, with complete functions and complete supporting facilities. The total area of the site is about 106,000 m², and it is planned to build a boarding high school with 96 classes, a primary school with 54 classes, and a kindergarten with 9 classes.
Design Visions
Park city, natural ecology, broad vision, multi-dimensional connectivity, and community sharing… These are the unique experiences we hope to endow this modern innovative campus with. We aim to build a future experiential campus that is diverse, composite, three-dimensional, and dynamic, achieving a transformation from traditional teaching models to modern teaching models.
Design Logic
The teaching room is enclosed into two courtyards, forming the core of the two campuses. The basketball court, swimming pool, restaurant, and other functions are stacked below the sports fields of primary and secondary schools to release sufficient land and concentrate on arranging the green space of the campus. Extend the urban park into the campus, forming a “Green Valley” that connects the two campuses.
“Green Valley” is scattered with low spaces such as music halls, science and art centers, libraries, and lecture halls. Courtyards of different sizes are connected by streets and alleys, creating a lush and vibrant park school.
The connected “Green Valley” facilitates the sharing of public facilities between the two campuses. At the same time, the “Green Valley” that integrates cultural and sports functions also provides convenience for sharing with the community during extracurricular and holiday periods.
Future Campus
Future education is no longer just a one-way passive knowledge transmission from teachers to students, but more focused on active learning and encouraging students to think in practice. Therefore, learning space is not limited to classrooms, but spreads to the entire campus, including outdoor courtyards, platforms, elevated floors, and various public spaces.
The teaching room faces the side of the “Green Valley” and is stepped back to form a green roof platform, providing students with a spacious recreational space. The south side of the teaching group is a regular classroom, and the north side is a laboratory, with flexible and variable teaching units. Each floor is equipped with functions such as teaching office, discussion and display.
Green Campus
The teaching room and student dormitories are both facing north and south, with good lighting and ventilation. The walls of the east and west mountains are mainly green plant walls, which not only provide good shading but also beautify the campus landscape. The design adopts various passive designs, such as maximizing the use of natural lighting for building orientation, adopting good lighting, sound insulation, and thermal measures to ensure user comfort, using non-toxic building materials, and installing sufficient solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs.