On September 28, 2015, LYCS Architecture's "Tiantai No.2 Primary School" was featured in the "10x100 - 100 Architects in UED Decade Exhibition" at Beijing Design Week.
"10x100 - UED Ten Years of 100 Architects Exhibition" brings together one hundred representative Chinese contemporary architects of the old, middle and young generations, with their architectural projects as the main content, through pictures, images, models and other forms, showing their thoughts and responses to the city and Through pictures, images and models, the exhibition presents their thoughts and responses to the city and architecture, reflecting the latest trends of contemporary architecture, and is the most realistic record of the current state of China's cities. The exhibition uses the works of 100 architects and the UED Magazine 10-year exhibition as two exhibition clues, expressing the connection between the two through the displacement of time and space. As one of the main activities of the Smart City section of Beijing International Design Week 2015, the exhibition attracted great attention in the architectural community, welcoming many architects and related industry professionals from home and abroad.
Tiantai No. 2 Primary School is a primary education building with a 200 meter circular running track placed on the roof of a multi-storey building. This ingenious concept was born out of the site's extremely limited land area: placing the standard 200-meter track on the rooftop allowed the school to gain an additional 3,000 square meters of public space on the ground level. If the playground had been built next to the school building in the conventional way, the 200-meter loop would have taken up 40% of the site, making the campus very small. But the students needed a playground to play sports, so the design placed the standard 200-meter track on top of the school building, giving the school an additional 3,000 square meters of space where students could run and have fun.
