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Aranya Ideas Camp

Aranya Ideas Camp
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ARANYA IDEAS CAMP

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ENGINEERING
Thuadi

OWNER REPRESENTATIVE
Yin Ma

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Li Zhang

HVAC ENGINEERS
Peng Guo, Laiquan Gao

OPERATOR REPRESENTATIVE
Wei Zhao

DESIGN TEAM
Wen, Cong Li, Zihao Pan

OPERATOR
Idea Camp Development Centre

ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS
Jinsong Huang, Wen Gu

CONTRACTOR REPRESENTATIVE
Yuxiang Liu

INTERIOR DESIGNERS
Li Zhang, Guanglu Dou, Zishen Wen, Yingxiu Lu

STRUCTURE ENGINEERS
Mingzhu Wang, Xiaohong He

OWNER
Qinhuangdao Tian-Xing-Jiu-Zhou Tourism Development, Ltd.

LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS
Hang Kou,Ran Tao, Guanglu Dou

CONTRACTOR
Changli County Constructions & Decorations, Ltd.

LIGHTING DESIGNERS
Xin Zhang, Xiaowei Han, Bentian Niu, Bo Tang

LANDSCAPE
BJF (Beijing) International Landscape Architecture, Ltd. / Atelier TeamMinus

LIGHTING
Atelier Zhang Xin

PHOTOGRAPHS
Lei Bu

AREA
4700 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Qinhuangdao, China

CATEGORY
Educational Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

The building is built for Qixing Education, a successful Chinese company that offers summer and winter school programs for children and the youth.

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Aranya Ideas Camp
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Their pedagogy is to take the Chinese children, mostly products of the one-child policy, out to a temporary community of their own, and get close to nature while learning various skills in culture, craft, and socialization.

The building sits amid a strip of sand dunes, which runs along the middle of a seaside weekend housing development inside the Aranya complex.

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Aranya Ideas Camp
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A continuous, spiral ramp that starts from one side of the sand dunes, circles around two courtyards, reaching its highest point before landing down to the ground on the other side of the dunes.

Of the two courtyards, the outer one is designed to be kept open and used for collective activities; the inner one is framed by the classrooms on the ground floor and the dorms on the first floor, which is used for private activities.

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Along with its entire length, the ramp helps to form a series of spaces both above and beneath it.

In the lower part, the ramp forms a temporary spectators' stand in the outer courtyard,covering an outdoor cafe area with large openings in the walls framing views to the dunes and the playgrounds.

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In the middle part, the top of the ramp provides panoramic views of the sea and the distant plains; below the ramp, there are flat spaces for children’s games.

In the ending part, the ramp takes a quick descend to the playgrounds below.

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When there is no summer/winter school activity, the ramp is open to the local residents.

The different heights expand and slopes of the activity spaces are to encourage the youth to move their bodies more creatively.

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