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Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town

KINDERGARTEN OF JIADING NEW TOWN

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Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He

ARCHITECTS
Atelier Deshaus

PHOTOGRAPHS
SHU He

AREA
660.0 m²

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Nanxiang, China

CATEGORY
Kindergarten

Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He

Text description provided by architect.

The kindergarten is located in the Jiading new town of the northern suburb in Shanghai, it is neither countryside nor urban in the traditional sense.

Face to the ambiguous and uncertain surrounding, the architecture emphasizes the self-improvement, directly intervening into the site, and making a very clear juxtaposition of the architecture and the site.

Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He

Compare with the open environment, the kindergarten acts as an introversive area. The architecture is divided into two general parts:

one is the rational and efficient area, which is composed of 15 classrooms and a number of playrooms; the other is the intentionally enlarged transportation space, which is an atrium with ramp ways connecting with different storey.

Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He

This atrium contributes to an emotional and entertaining spatial experience that is beyond the common daily experiencing. Beside the transportation function, it is the vagueness and uncertainty that also provide a number of possibilities in spatial utilization.

The external form and the façade represent the inevitability to the internal relation as well.

Apart from the two separated shapes of this architecture, the constantly transformed height among different floors is been represented onto the façade as well.

Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He

The open activity space are being put into these changed elevation places, and the courtyards has been extended along the vertical direction instead of the horizontal direction in the traditional method.

Thus, the courtyards and activities of the children act as an important part of the façades.

Everyday, kids and teachers are shuttling between the architecture and the site, between the two-separated parts of the architecture.

Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
© SHU He

They are shielded by the architecture and experiencing the inside and outside, the balance of passion and reason.


Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
ground floor
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
1st floor plan
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
2nd floor
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
3rd floor plan


Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
section
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
section


Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
east facade
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
west facade
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
south facade
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
north facade


Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
rendering
Kindergarten Of Jiading New Town
siteplan

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