Tsiaogou teaching school locates in Song County of Luoyang City, Henan province and has 49 students and 4 teachers. The school has no reading room so that the 320 books they currently have are scattered in all the classroom. This project will add a new reading room and supply more books. All the current and new books will be put in the reading room for all the students to borrow. 

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Architects: SLOW Architects

Location: Luoyang, Henan, China

Area: 30.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Rao Fu

© Rao Fu

From the architect. Tsiaogou teaching school locates in Song County of Luoyang City, Henan province and has 49 students and 4 teachers. The school has no reading room so that the 320 books they currently have are scattered in all the classroom. This project will add a new reading room and supply more books. All the current and new books will be put in the reading room for all the students to borrow. 
© Rao Fu

The campus is pretty tight. there?s no empty classroom can be transformed into reading room and the playground cannot be occupied as well to make sure the children have enough space for outdoor activities. So the school planned to use the corner of the fencing wall adjacent to the teaching building as the site for the new reading room.

Floor Plan

When we visited the site and saw the beautiful big cedar, we decided that the reading room shouldn?t crouch...