A college with vibrant volumes and sinuous curves by Hint Structure Workplace gained Dezeen Awards China 2023 Structure challenge of the yr, as seen on this film produced by Dezeen.
The studio picked up the prize, which was sponsored by The Dalmore and V&A Dundee, on the inaugural Dezeen Awards China 2023 social gathering earlier this week. The challenge was additionally named civic challenge of the yr.
Referred to as Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental College, the event spans 60,000 sq. metres and includes a highschool, a scholar dormitory and a kindergarten.
Positioned within the coastal metropolis of Haikou on the island of Hainan, the varsity sits on a sloped website and consists of a collection of intersecting curved volumes and rectilinear varieties. These buildings are brightly colored with vibrant hues to pique the curiosity and playful curiosity of scholars.
Envisioned as “a miniature pastoral metropolis”, the architects aimed to create a campus that stimulates creativity and interplay, departing from typical exam-oriented studying cultures.
“College design ought to transcend performance,” founder and lead architect Hua Li mentioned within the video. “What’s extra vital is that the house ought to evoke college students’ creativeness.”
The architects took cues from the positioning’s pure environment, which included fields, wetlands, mangrove nature reserves and the ocean, leading to its natural and winding varieties.
It options sweeping curves that mimic meandering rivers and converge like lakes to create centripetal courtyards between buildings, in addition to an undulating terrain that varieties hills to host occasions.
Towering pillars standing at 17 metres excessive had been included to create a panorama paying homage to forests, whereas the expansive roof takes on the looks of floating clouds. Each the pillars and roof had been constructed from fair-faced concrete.
The college was constructed with a radial aircraft, the place the buildings sprawl outward from a central level, which the architects likened to “a pool of water unfolding and spreading.”
The intersecting exterior and inside areas and intertwining pathways create a maze-like atmosphere, providing academics and college students a extra exploratory and wealthy spatial expertise.
Regardless of the seemingly irregular buildings, the architectural kind was guided by exact geometric traces tightly linked to the general purposeful format.
The format creates a way of symmetry and permits for environment friendly zoning and spatial connectivity, which, in flip, shortens distances and improves accessibility all through the event.
“The challenge’s spatial selection supplies a enjoyable and open discussion board for studying whereas selling social interconnectivity among the many group,” the judges mentioned.
“It breaks away from the standard rigidity of the academic institutional typology in China and opens up new prospects for the long run.”
In response to the town’s subtropical local weather, the campus options raised walkways, cantilevered volumes and angled pillars that create a number of partially coated out of doors areas, providing respite throughout difficult climate spells whereas enabling youngsters to play outside.
These semi-outdoor areas serve a number of functions by providing shade, air flow and shelter. The constructing’s eaves present ample exercise zones for youngsters to play beneath, which may additionally double as casual studying areas.
To adapt to Haikou’s robust daylight, the architects employed completely different sunshade designs for every constructing facade, based mostly on its orientation.
The south facet of the campus incorporates a curtain wall system with a mix of horizontal white aluminium panels and vertical aluminium veneers with a wooden grain end, whereas the west-facing sections function extra tightly spaced vertical shades which can be strategically optimised for the solar’s incident route through the summer time solstice.
The cautious consideration for the sunshade orientation and density is meant to contribute to improved power effectivity, higher management of inside lighting circumstances and improve the general consolation of occupants throughout completely different occasions of the day and seasons.
“Successful the Structure challenge of the yr serves as a big motivation for us,” Li mentioned. “We purpose to discover completely different experimental varieties in each challenge.”
“We consider that this award will encourage us to proceed to take action sooner or later,” he continued.
Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental College was up towards six different structure challenge winners to win the general structure challenge of the yr award.
Entries had been scored by a jury comprising German architect Ole Scheeren, MAD founder Ma Yansong, Neri&Hu co-founder Rossana Hu, UNStudio director Garett Hwang and Wutopia Lab’s Yu Ting.
Launched this yr, Dezeen Awards China shines a highlight on one of the best Chinese language structure, interiors and design, offering worldwide recognition from across the globe.
The images is by Chen Hao.
Dezeen Awards China 2023
Dezeen Awards China is the primary regional version of Dezeen Awards, to have a good time one of the best structure, interiors and design in China. The annual awards are in partnership with Bentley Motors, as a part of a wider collaboration that may see the model work with Dezeen to help and encourage the subsequent technology of design expertise.
