In November, the 2020 The Architecture, Construction and Design Awards announced the winner of LYCS Architecture's "Yiwu New Century Foreign Language School" as the Winner in the Public Building category (completed).
The ACD Awards, organized by Rethinking the Future, a leading design media magazine dedicated to promoting new design ideas for the past nine years, along with Archdaily, World Rethinking the Future, a leading design media magazine, has been promoting new design ideas for nine years, working with over 100 international media outlets including Archdaily, World Architecture Community and DesignMag to promote the 2020 ACD Awards.
Located in the main city of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, Yiwu Foreign Languages School has 48 classes of elementary school and 24 classes of middle school. As the opening project of the expatriate businessmen back home, the owners hope to make it a friendly and comfortable campus with both world vision and Yiwu roots.
The project is quite challenging - how to define the subtle position of education space in the urban high-density environment and how to solve the problem of the layout of teaching space under the lack of land; how to interpret the architectural form of Yiwu's contemporary architecture with international trade as the pillar industry and traditional Zhejiang architecture as the cultural vein; and how to respond to the teaching space requirements of the New Century Foreign Language School, which is compatible with the international teaching system and traditional Chinese culture. How does the architectural space respond to the teaching space requirements of the New Century Foreign Language School, which combines the international teaching system with the traditional Chinese culture?
