Textual content description offered by the architects. Soochow College Gaoyou Experimental College is a nine-year obligatory faculty comprising an 8-track, 48-class elementary faculty and a 15-track, 45-class center faculty. The campus is split into three clear sections, from south to north: the general public library related by a studying gallery, the first and secondary faculty buildings, and the open public instructing space. As the primary interface of the campus to the town, we combine the multi-functional cafeteria, theater, wind and rain playground, swimming pool and different cultural and sports activities amenities via the continual giant roof, and its full architectural type kinds a transparent city interface on this space. On the identical time, we attempt to make the varsity talk with the society in an open posture via the design of an ambiguous boundary house.
The exterior interface of the primary ground of the North Zone is dominated by floor-to-ceiling security blast-resistant glass (the precise enclosure), and the home windows are solely opened above the protection safety top. The lobby, cafeteria and dance classroom contained in the glass grow to be short-term ready and buffer areas for college students throughout pick-up and drop-off, whereas the elevated space exterior the glass turns into a ready house for fogeys. The south aspect of the constructing makes use of the river to obviously separate the within and out of doors of the varsity, with a sunny studying gallery and library adjoining to the river. The studying gallery, which is a spillover from the studying house of the library, turns into a resting gallery for college students’ after-school actions and a ready gallery for college students after faculty.
The water community system is a regional characteristic shared by Suzhou and Gaoyou. The central cultural water road working via the north and south naturally separates the elementary faculty from the junior highschool with out obstructing the road of sight. The assorted specialised lecture rooms and public instructing rooms on each side of the water road enable main and secondary faculty college students to see and be seen by one another in a spatial environment stuffed with the architectural traits of the Jiangnan water city, eliminating the sense of strangeness caused by bodily isolation.
The hall isn’t solely an area for each day passage, but additionally a spot without cost passage and stopping to go searching, and an vital house for interplay and communication between college students and college students, and between college students and lecturers.
On the primary ground of the library, there are a number of enclosed sunken areas on the south aspect of the home windows, which can be utilized as inventive lecture rooms for small group instructing or locations for college students to learn freely. The inside is related to the higher and decrease ranges by wood steps, and the bookshelves stand up alongside the aspect of the steps, offering college students with a versatile and free studying house. With a purpose to improve the curiosity, a “cave” like house is designed by the aspect of the large steps, which brings extra spatial expertise to the studying.
