Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi

Middle School for Zhubo Design

The Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi project is located in Longhua District, Shenzhen. It is a middle school that accommodates 2,100 students with 42 classes. What architects promote is to design schools that return to student-oriented services for education rather than from the perspective of teachers or adults. With it, architects finally create an open, personalized, diversified, and multi-level communication space, and win a three-dimensional complex shared campus space.

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Unique Properties

The design uses the method of subtraction, digging holes in the dense classroom array and adding public bridges to create an Mobius Ring type of public space system of informal communication with three-dimensional spatial circulation. In these pleasant-scale holes, the colorful and livelys staircases, platforms and small buildings create varied and individual spaces, making the campus a wonderful place that can continuously stimulate children's curiosity and imagination.

Tags

Event container, High floor area ratio, Community sharing, Public communication circle,New type of educational complex

Production Technology

The 1st and 2nd teaching buildings use the frame structure, and the dormitory building uses the frame shear wall structure. In order to avoid the influence of falling columns on the lower space, the corridor in the middle of the teaching building adopts the steel structure corridor with 27 meters long span. There are two and a half basements in this project, some functional spaces, such as basketball courts and lecture halls were set up here. It uses the structure form of large-span concrete unidirectional secondary beam to ensure the large space without any columns.

Design Challenge

How to combine the 10-meter height difference between the north and south of the base and the extreme shortage of public space and community cultural facilities in the surrounding communities to creat an open, personalized, diversified and multi-level communication space, and win a three-dimensional complex shared campus space.

Project Duration

The project started in 2019 in Shenzhen and finished in 2021 .

Operation Flow

Architects pioneered the dumbbell-shape model of main public space with the dual-sport area. Sports facilities such as sports fields and gymnasiums are stereoscopic arranged at the east and west of this elongated campus, and, in the middle, a complex and three-dimensional public steps square with a width of 25M is used as a traffic connection, which becomes block-type core public space system of the school. Many open public activities of the school and the community also can be held here.

Research

The project is located in Longhua District, Shenzhen. It accommodates 2,100 students with 42 classes. The campus covers an area of 23,000 square meters and has a total construction area of 58,000 square meters.The urban environment around the campus is dominated by dense urban villages and industrial areas. The public space of the surrounding community is extremely scarce, and the cultural community facilities are also seriously insufficient. We hope that the construction of the school would be an opportunity to moderately solve this local community problem.

Inspiration

What we promote is to design school with the concept that returns to the student-oriented and services for education rather than from the perspective of teachers or adults. With it, we finally reate an open, personalized, diversified and multi-level communication space, and win a three-dimensional complex shared campus space.

Image Credits

Qingshan Wu

Project Overview

Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi Middle School has been a Bronze winner in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design award category in the year 2023 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

Bronze Recognition

Zhubo Design was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2024, a testament to excellence of their work Shenzhen Longhua Xingzhi Middle School.

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