The 14th Venice Biennale will run from June 7 to November 23. LYCS ArchitectureThe work "Tiantai No. 2 Primary School" will be exhibited at the Zen Palace in "Strain - Architecture and Change in China". The school's design has been featured in many international media such as the New York Times.
EMGdotART Foundation is the only Chinese private institution officially recognized by the Venice Architecture Biennale to host the outreach exhibition titled "ADAPTATION", curated by Marino Folin, together with MovingCities presents a unique exhibition titled ADAPTATION - architecture and change in China. Through photography, project models and short documentary films, the exhibition examines the architectural projects of representative architects in China today, presenting a deep insight and critical reflection on the current state of China's architectural development and showing the professional status of Chinese architects. With its unique perspective, the curatorial team interprets the changing architectural culture in China, one of the largest developing countries in the world.
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.
