CUIZHU SCHOOL

Landscape for Learning

Professional work with Studio Link-Arc


Date: 2020
Location: Shenzhen, China
Type: Elementary & Middle School
Phase: Concept - SD
Status: Ongoing
Reponsibility: Spatial design, Facade design, 3D modeling, Rendering production, Drawing production

Cuizhu school is sited in Shenzhen’s oldest district (Luohu District) where city plots often have irregular shapes. Designers face tremendous challenges when addressing the district’s congestion as they were often provided with complex programmatic objectives. To tackle such issue, we played with forms of solid and void, proposing an artistically sculpted architecture that crystalizes our hope to enhance the overall experience of its future users, young students and their faculty. The project aims to discover a new public school typology within the present frame of building regulations in China. By introducing concepts of natural landscapes into our built environment, the design intends to bring freshness to schools nowadays in China commonly being pictured as rigid boxes.

Rice paddies: topographic feature of the landscape in Southern China