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Design Description:
A key criterion for assessing the quality of a campus is whether its spatial structure can foster informal exchanges among different users, including students, teachers, and visitors, as well as exchanges between knowledge, activities, and everyday experiences. When space stimulates curiosity and encourages unplanned encounters, the campus can cultivate a more open educational environment.

The Ningbo Huamao School renovation proposal is situated within a multicultural context and takes the existing campus as its starting point. Through three interconnected lines of inquiry, namely “Production” (spaces for learning and knowledge generation), “Life” (the everyday experience of the campus), and “Ecology” (a sustainable spatial system), the project rethinks the relationship between campus and city, introduces a dimension of public use, and establishes an open, continuous, and adaptable spatial system.

In essence, the project seeks to move the Huamao campus from a “heterotopia” toward an “artopia”, making learning, creation, and participation part of the everyday experience of the place, and thereby establishing a new educational environment.

By dissolving the boundaries of the traditional enclosed campus, the project considers Huamao campus as part of the city, and even as the city itself. The future campus combines the public openness of the city, the gathering qualities of a community, the ecological character of a park, and the educational qualities of a cultural space, accommodating diverse activities and forms of use while creating an open and vibrant campus environment.

Design Participant:
Chen Zaituan

Location:
Huamao School, Yinzhou District, Ningbo

Time:
2020.12–2021.05

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