On August 24, the opening ceremony of the 17th Venice International Architecture Biennale China National Pavilion Exhibition was held at Beijing Tianqiao Art Center. Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism Zhang Xu attended and delivered a speech. Chinese Ambassador to Italy Li Junhua and Italian Mayor of Venice Luigi Bruniano, Venice Biennale President Roberto Cicuto and former Italian Vice Foreign Minister Laura Fincato sent video messages.
The theme of this year's Venice Biennale is "How we live together", and the curator of the China National Pavilion, Zhang Li, responded with the theme of "Courtyard - from the largest to the smallest". LYCS Architecture was invited to present its work "Hangzhou Haishu School of Future Sci-Tech City" at this year's Venice Biennale.
Hangzhou Haishu School of Future Sci-Tech City, located in the Future Tech City area in western Hangzhou, is a comprehensive building project that includes a kindergarten and elementary school, with its architecture and interior designed by LYCS Architecture in an integrated manner. The design is inspired by the language of children's drawings, where the ideal campus is full of friendly scales and joyful streets, and from this we break up the 8,000-square-meter volume into 15 small houses with sloping roofs. Campus. The corridors and staircases are not only a connection between classrooms but also a place for students to meet, and the playgrounds and roofs are not only their literal function but also a space for students to communicate. The school is a small-scale community in which children build their own sense of community through first-hand experience.
