Crossboundaries
Beijing University Affiliated Highschool
Foto: YANG Chao Ying
Ort
Haidian Qu,Beijing
Gebäudekategorie
Schulen
Bauvorhaben
Umbau
Jahr der Fertigstellung
2016
Material Fassade
Mauerwerk
Beijing Affiliated High School
Challenging current educational ideas in China, Crossboundaries proposed achievable and realistic adjustments to an already planned shell and core, inherent in the school's long term evolution, foreseeing the needs of the future based on the schools' spirit of interaction, inspiration and individualization.
communication and blurring boundaries
Devising a stage for the passion of learning and teaching that will remain as the school and its pupils evolve, by systemising classrooms, developing the programme to include music and art subject areas, as well as removing walls, adding windows and reconfiguring spaces. This is all in view of two key drivers: communication and blurring of subject boundaries. Afforded to offer room to pause and share, spaces have been reconfigured with a series of multipurpose elements, like functional walls, colour identity, and both visual and physical connections.
What were institutional corridors of classrooms are now redefined in form and function. To instigate exchange and interaction between passing students, walls are integrated with lockers shelves and seating niches. Classrooms are reconceived to focus on the student, not the teacher, to work across multiple subjects and activities. The classrooms' form breaks away from rigid uniformity, complemented by lighting, varying ceiling heights, a choice of vertical work surfaces and foldable walls to create different zones.
Passive and active connections engage the subjects of art, music and sport. The sport lobby bridges the double height space of the art area, the ceiling imbedded with light strips mirrors the running track of the sports field above. Sports classrooms share circulation with the open plan art spaces and have windows with views directly into the sports halls. The library is now a crossroad, a successful partnering of the sculpting of the multifunctional hall ceiling with the above tribune, connecting the library and sport field.
Location Beijing, China
Client Affiliated High School of Peking University
Size 26,000 sqm
Design period (including feasibility study) April 2014 - March 2015
Construction period April 2014 –December 2016
LDI BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architectural Design)
Partners in charge Binke Lenhardt, DONG Hao
Team Sidonie Kade, Irene Solà, Dian Tang, Libny Pacheco, Brecht van Acker, Maria Francesca Origa, CHENG Si, Hugo Ríos, Alex Chen, WANG Xudong
Photographs WANG Ziling, YANG Chao Ying
Challenging current educational ideas in China, Crossboundaries proposed achievable and realistic adjustments to an already planned shell and core, inherent in the school's long term evolution, foreseeing the needs of the future based on the schools' spirit of interaction, inspiration and individualization.
communication and blurring boundaries
Devising a stage for the passion of learning and teaching that will remain as the school and its pupils evolve, by systemising classrooms, developing the programme to include music and art subject areas, as well as removing walls, adding windows and reconfiguring spaces. This is all in view of two key drivers: communication and blurring of subject boundaries. Afforded to offer room to pause and share, spaces have been reconfigured with a series of multipurpose elements, like functional walls, colour identity, and both visual and physical connections.
What were institutional corridors of classrooms are now redefined in form and function. To instigate exchange and interaction between passing students, walls are integrated with lockers shelves and seating niches. Classrooms are reconceived to focus on the student, not the teacher, to work across multiple subjects and activities. The classrooms' form breaks away from rigid uniformity, complemented by lighting, varying ceiling heights, a choice of vertical work surfaces and foldable walls to create different zones.
Passive and active connections engage the subjects of art, music and sport. The sport lobby bridges the double height space of the art area, the ceiling imbedded with light strips mirrors the running track of the sports field above. Sports classrooms share circulation with the open plan art spaces and have windows with views directly into the sports halls. The library is now a crossroad, a successful partnering of the sculpting of the multifunctional hall ceiling with the above tribune, connecting the library and sport field.
Location Beijing, China
Client Affiliated High School of Peking University
Size 26,000 sqm
Design period (including feasibility study) April 2014 - March 2015
Construction period April 2014 –December 2016
LDI BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architectural Design)
Partners in charge Binke Lenhardt, DONG Hao
Team Sidonie Kade, Irene Solà, Dian Tang, Libny Pacheco, Brecht van Acker, Maria Francesca Origa, CHENG Si, Hugo Ríos, Alex Chen, WANG Xudong
Photographs WANG Ziling, YANG Chao Ying
