Guanghua Qidi College is a personalized academy as the subsidiary of Guanghua Education Group which has accumulated experience in cultivate international young elites. Guanghua Qidi College Dianshan Lake Campus has recently completed its improvement of teaching areas and outdoor environments to reinforce college’s creative thinking and future-oriented/sustainable educational theory.

The project is close to Dianshan Lake in Qingpu, Shanghai. The original site is a forest resort owns very unique ecological resources, which has become a favorable natural condition for the campus reconstruction. This promotes the possibility of building the connection between man and nature within a education environment; therefore, while maintaining the natural base and not breaking the architectural pattern, our team completed the unified transformation of the overall campus environment design combined with outdoor camp education, and actively explored the innovation of high-quality interior teaching space.

A distinctive experience opportunity for socializing, gathering, sports, cultural display, natural education and full enjoyment of campus life is provided by the new landscape . 

On the basis of respecting current situation, our team emphasizes the original natural characteristics and the school’s concept of diversified and inclusive, in hence to stimulates the creative interaction between each campus user, and brings about a quality landscape that can grow together with students; improving the attraction of the campus by encourage the transition of learning and living scenes from the traditional spatial dimension to the free, harmonious and friendly natural dimension.

Unique feature such as abandoned runways, lush forests, diversified vegetation, semi open spaces etc from the original c the campus into multiple theme zones such as Burning stadium, Forest invitations, Star party, etc. The location selection of each zone fully consider the planting, traffic flow, activities functions and the development plan of surrounding buildings, so as to ensure that users can obtain reasonable site use experience.

Our team retained the original spatial structure of the main gate and form the overall gate design by abstract the shape of the forest behind the entrance, which bring this harmonious and interesting image of the main entrance. Students shall have this natural experience walking into the campus with the tree shade above the head, and the sunshine under the foot.

The abandoned kart racetrack in the original venue has been renovated into a multi-functional sport field. By improving site utilization through the space combination , creating basketball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis venues and a 250m circular runway, as well carry out water sports such as canoeing and paddling with the good use of dock functions. The surrounding forest vegetation provides a natural and healthy oxygen bar for this blue sports field.

Design creating a forest theater combining the rich vegetation allowing students to perform outdoor performances and sightseeing activities. Our team retained tall trees, cleared the middle and bottom vegetation through flow-line guidance, bring into a broad and semi-open natural shared space: outdoor paving material of pine bark was laid on the activity  ground, plants of shade tolerant and mosquito repellent were locally grow in the non activity area.

Set up a performance stage, a wooden camping platform and a low China fir pile fence; The fluorescent theater in the north of the woods can meet the functions of campus outdoor music festival, open-air movies, small theater activities, sketching and camping, as well as be used as a small collection and distribution site.

To ensure the continuity of indoor and outdoor space, our team conceived a leisure party field around the existing swimming pool. The central activity area behind the school dining room brings users a gathering space full of artistic sense: Starlight T Platform Square is the connection between the starry sky waterscape and the restaurant; The leisure tables and chairs on the side of the pool become an outdoor communication and rest place.

Blending with nature, combines education with recreation, growing together with landscape, the campus culture of which is a more humanized positive education guidance, and also a trend expression to improve the traditional teaching environment. Meanwhile, our team provided a diversified space solution to the question that how the boundary-breaking open teaching scene could better meet the learning and living needs of contemporary teachers and students.

We believe that cohesive narration with temperature can better interpret the core idea of school under the precipitation of time. 

Our team have tried to create a spiritual field full of extensibility with implicit space design by taking advantage of a scene to express emotion and blurring internal and external boundaries, which let the school space serve the purpose of the tangible carrier of students' emotional sustenance.

Instead of being defined by the traditional indoor layout of schools, the campus aims to reconsider the modern campus design of simplify what is complicated. In terms of theme color selection of interior space, we endow white to endless imagination, in which allowing creativity to bloom and free growth without gravity, achieve an immersive narrative environment that giving young people boundless polysemy space to learn and create.

Our team reorganized the original construction space, divided the building into ABCDF sections according to the education indicators, and connected each section through corridors to form this independent and closely connected spatial order.

The lobby reception area is built into a gray and white picture among green landscape, the large area of blank wall is reserved for teachers and students to show themselves. The furniture that can be combined freely is convenient for creating flexible space, making it a gathering center for learning salons, art exhibitions, characteristic themes and other activities.

The combination of concrete texture coating and white blue furniture makes the indoor atmosphere quiet and close.

With the demand for "affective education" appeal of the education has become more complex, the teaching space is no longer limited to the closed walls and full of desks and chairs. The space can also become a more comfortable, diversified teaching tool to promote communication and actively create.

In order to adapt to teaching, our team has an overall grasp of the brightness of color and light in design process. 

The peace from light colors and the silence from dark are mutually balanced in the tumultuous light. The wide floor-to-ceiling glass, solid color walls, and simple furniture all reflect the consideration of different gradation of light, material and color details in the design, enhance to enrich the indoor space expression, and enables the learning emotions grow quietly among simple, pure and rich teaching environment.

The rest area provides a relaxing place for the young people to rest and social after class, discuss homework and talk of everything under the sun. A large number of unmodified walls are reserved in the public area waiting for teachers and students to display and arrange together, so that the space can grow organically with time.

The natural light is filtered through the tall french window, which depicts the sense of "residence" in a softer language, drawing out a full texture of life. The white cabinet and wood wallboard simply mellowed the space atmosphere so that form a warm living habitat.

The unique ring dining room can also be used as a lecture hall or a coffee house. The white metal mesh hoisting covers the complicated pipes on the top while strengthens the ritual sense of the circular space.The private dining room emphasizes to bring the outdoor view inside to blend in with nature.

Taking the essence of open education itself as the starting point, enable communication to flow naturally in the teaching space. The office environment without boundaries allows teachers and students to get close contact and turn to time companion like friends.

This project was carrying out at 2020 while the epidemic situation was severe. When it was difficult to promote the field work，as a project that duly completed the construction with a fine effect, the team's successful online working mode also provides discussion value for the new form of "online- offline" design.