Architizer shared some of its A+ award-winning projects, including LYCS Architecture's design "Tiantai Chicheng Street No. 2 Primary School". Architizer is the world's largest community of architects and has been called the "Facebook for architects" by the New York Times, and is an architectural platform that leads the way in architecture.
"Tiantai Chicheng Street No. 2 Primary School is committed to creating a unique design that will be a model school for elementary school students. The project aims to address the shortage of land in the old city. Due to the scarcity of land, a 200-meter running track was projected onto the roof, providing over 3,000 square meters of usable area on the ground, and the oval-shaped school building created a sense of interiority and safety for the students. The total height of the project is four stories, instead of the five originally requested, thus creating a more harmonious relationship between the new school and its urban surroundings." The article reads.
Tiantai No. 2 Primary School is a primary education building that places a 200-meter circular running track on the roof of a multi-story building. This clever concept was born out of the site's extremely limited land area: placing the standard 200-meter track on the roof gains the school an additional 3,000 square meters of public space on the ground. If the playground had been built next to the school building in the conventional way, the 200-meter circular track would have taken up 40% of the site and the campus would have been very tight. However, 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 more than 3,000 square meters of activity space where students can run and have fun. At the same time, the elliptical shape of the building gives the students a sense of inward-looking security. The placement of the running track on the roof allows the number of floors to be limited to four, as required, in harmony with the surrounding buildings. In order to provide more usable green courtyard space, the building block is rotated to create a fifteen degree angle to the site boundary, thus creating several small plaza spaces between the exterior of the building and the site boundary.
Learn more at: The Future of Architecture: How to Transform a City Through Urban Regeneration - Architizer Journal
