Type | Architectural Design

Design Firm/Architect | Tianshang Design Group

Completion Year | 2023

Address | Huanghu Town Central Primary School

Located in Huanghu Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, the Renovation and Expansion Project of Huanghu Town Central Primary School covers a total land area of 26,746 square meters and a total construction area of 26,618 square meters. With "rammed earth memory + future education" as its core, it builds a "breathable palace of knowledge" in northern Zhejiang.

Featuring the innovative application of local materials, the project inherits the local rammed earth context in depth. The design extracts the traditional rammed earth craftsmanship of Dongwu Auditorium in Huanghu Town, uses six types of local soil from Qingshan Village to prepare rammed earth walls, and applies them to the facades of teaching buildings and libraries in a mountain wave shape. It not only inherits the simple texture of historical buildings but also endows traditional craftsmanship with a modern form. The rammed earth walls are not only enclosure structures but also physical carriers of local culture and the concept of "Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains are Invaluable Assets". Meanwhile, the aerial corridor adopts titanium metal bamboo weaving imitation technology, and light and shadow form a unique landscape through the diamond grid, realizing the integration of traditional texture and modern technology.

In terms of space renovation, the project adheres to the core concept of "space as the third teacher" and integrates the concept of future education into space design. It breaks the closed pattern of traditional school buildings, creates open teaching spaces and semi-transparent and flexible libraries to meet the needs of project-based learning and interdisciplinary collaboration; connects various functional areas through aerial corridors, and integrates the northern forest land, the western Tuotou Mountain scenery and the Dongtiao River scenery into the campus through window-view design, making nature an implicit teaching scene. At the same time, it retains the original green plants such as camphor trees and beech trees on the original site, and combines rammed earth low walls to enclose outdoor learning areas, creating a "historical memory corridor" to realize the coexistence of old and new in space and the integration of nature and architecture.

With the design concept of symbiosis between traditional activation and future education, the project sets up a rammed earth craft workshop to allow students to inherit local skills through practice. The overall design realizes the modern translation of traditional craftsmanship in space renovation and material application, deeply integrates local memory, natural ecology and smart campus, and builds an educational space with both cultural heritage and contemporary charm.