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Chaoyang Future School

Using color to negotiate from the urban scale to the human, the renovation of Future School facilitates continuous learning throughout campus life. Completely reassessing the landscape, facade, interior, and down to the signage

Navigating both pedagogy and architecture it explores the crossover of and the public and private, to create a village that delivers to individual needs, catering to both students and teachers.

Education fit for future needs

The existing educational campus built in the 1980s mirrors its tight urban surroundings. The design explores the new demands of the school to serve its educational community. Navigating both pedagogy and architecture it explores the crossover of and the public and private, to create a village that delivers to individual needs, catering to both students and teachers.

Color is the first layer of identity, orientation and a centering of the campus, at its center the scarlet red Art Center. Inspired by the rich deciduous and evergreen vines that drenched the campus in its previous state, the color sustains the liveliness of its outdoor spaces and brings it deep into the activity indoors.

Architectural interventions open floors and walls to expand volumes and give way to new opportunities for creativity and inspiration. The facades are transformed creating an interface between inside and out with square openings, the rhythm preserved from the original building.

Window frames washed in green outline the public face of the campus, fading to yellow and then red at its core, the Art Center. Each building holds its own unique identity while maintaining a common mission, prolonging its use and also restoring its relevance and purpose.

 

DATA

Project: Chaoyang Future School
Client: Affiliated High School of Peking University
Program: educational
Location: Beijing, China
Building area: 25,916 m2
Completion Date: Dec. 2017

CREDITS

Partners in charge: Binke Lenhardt, DONG Hao
Design team: GAO Yang, Alan Chou, Natalie Bennett, Andra Ciocoiu, Irene Solà, HAO Hongyi, Cynthia Cui, Tracey Loontjens, Aniruddha Mukherjee, Libny Pacheco, Sidonie Kade, TAN Kebin, FANG Ruo, Chloris Yu, Silvia Campi, WANG Xudong.
Photographers: WANG Ziling, YANG Chaoying

COLLABORATORS

Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD)

AUSZEICHNUNGEN

2019 GERMAN DESIGN AWARD
Special Mention, Excellent Communications Design, Category Architecture
2019 IDEAT FUTURE AWARD
Best Public Architecture
2018 ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE
Honorable Mention, Category Architectural Design/Educational Buildings
2018 ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE
Honorable Mention, Category Architectural Design/Restoration & Renovation
2018 ARCHITIZER A+AWARDS
Winner, category Concept – Plus-Architecture+Color
2018 THE PLAN AWARD
Winner, Category Renovation / Completed
2018 WAN AWARD
Finalist, Category Colour in Architecture