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Project name: Yiwu Foreign Languages School
Location: Yiwu, China丨Size: 85,481 sqm
Project Period: Design + Construction 2016-2018, Completion 2019
Yiwu Foreign Languages School is located in the main urban area of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. The school, a branch of Hangzhou New Century Foreign Language School in Yiwu, consists of a primary school of 48 classes and a junior high school of 24 classes, now is under construction. As the first project of the client as returned overseas Chinese, it’s expected to be designed as a cosy and comfortable campus integrated with the international outlook and Yiwu-rooted culture. It’s a project with huge challenges: how to define the architectural form of educational building in the high
-density urban environment; how to organize the architectural layout under the lack of the land; how the contemporary architectural style interprets the characteristic of Yiwu, which takes international trade as a pillar industry, and builds its cultural context with traditional Zhejiang architecture. All of these issues are common questions in the process of rapid urbanization in China, and what LYCS have been focusing in the field of high-density city and education. Based on these concerns, the design is aimed to create a joyful campus to bring back a sense of intimacy and inspire children’s curiosity, rather than a uniform and solemn general school. Starting with a child’s perspective, the design introduces the “moving”, “communal” and “social” teaching environment to stimulate children’s desire for study and creativity.
