Under the background of rapid urbanization, standardize construction of Hongling High School campuses were widely built in Shenzhen in the past 20 years. As part of ?New Campus Action?, the design attempts to re-connect the campus to its natural environment, and create a new place meaning through a very logical building strategy. The design targets to use the central-location site to inter-weave a comprehensive complex that offers a wider range of spaces for cultural and sports activities, while at the same time, re-establish the circulation, communication and sharing in the campus, and create a coexistence of human and nature.
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The project not only responds to the increasing functional demands, but also serves as the generator and distributor for a new form of campus community. Designed as a sponge-like spatial nexus, the new building complex encourages teachers and students freely move, glow and merge in this loose organization.
This green-sponge fabric links to each boor of the original teaching building through additional corridor system on the east side, and connects to the existing dorm complex through landscape platforms at the lower point of the hill-shaped building on the north side. It will eventually realize the inter-connection of the whole campus and weave the existing unsystematic activities and traffics into a homogeneous organic system.
© Siming Wu
The design originates from natural geography. The new Activity Centre is conceived as topographic...