Huizhen High School

  • Prize
    Jury's Favorite in Architectural Design - Educational
  • Design Company
    Approach Design Studio / Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group Co.,Ltd
  • Lead Designer
    Ma Di
  • Architecture Firm
    Approach Design Studio
  • Photo Credit
    Wu Qingshan
  • Project Location
    Zhejiang,China
  • Client
    Ningbo Huizhen High School
  • Project Date
    2022/05
  • Project Link

A Reflectionon the Teaching Model of ‘Efficiency First’ under the ‘Efficiency First’Teaching Model Explore a campus that can ‘waste time’.
We firmly believe that‘wasting time’ mindfully is the best way for adolescent students to release stress.
The separate the concept of‘school’and‘campus’,redistribute ‘efficiency’ on the basis of constant total space efficiency. We make the ‘school’ responsible for teaching,being as ‘compact and efficient’ as possible thus allowing ‘campus’ to partially become ‘low efficient’ or even ‘inefficient’,being a place where students can waste time mindfully.
By condensing the teaching space,we have freed up a ‘floating forest’ in the direction where the teaching building faces the morning sun, a space that does not resemble an image of a school.Students can quickly arrive to this forest after class,to a piece of primitive nature where they can temporarily escape from the burden of school.We also try to make some classrooms not to follow the strict norms,by‘hanging’them in each corner of the forest in free form,so that the classrooms are no longer considered as neatly arranged‘machines’and classes within them can be full of adventures.