DESIGN CONCEPT
Public Space Roof Farming Dormitory
Teaching Space
Garden School
Teaching Space Dormitory
Canteen
Service Rooms
Garden
Auditorium
Swimming Pool
Gymnasium
Large Public Spaces
The intention of creating more open spaces filled with nature, combined with
is a thin rhizome shaped super slab that contains the more repetitive programs
the site limitations, inspired a vertical strategy of separating the programs into
of classrooms, labs and dormitories. The roof-top of the upper building is made
above and below, and inserting gardens in-between. The lower part of the
into an urban farm, with 36 plots for the 36-classes of students.
building contains large and non-repetitive public functions, canteen, auditorium, gymnasium and swimming pool which push the ground up from below into various
The two types of educational spaces together with the gardens in between create
mound shapes that touch the belly of the upper building; their roofs in the form
city-like exciting spatial experiences, encouraging explorations and awaiting
of landscaped gardens become the undulating new ‘ground’. The upper building
reinventions by each individual.