Hangzhou Olympic Sports Experimental Primary School and Kindergarten

The Hangzhou Olympic Experimental Primary School and Kindergarten is located next to the Lotus Bowl main stadium of the 2022 Asian Games and the Xixing Bridge, the gateway to Hangzhou Airport. The site is surrounded by high-rise residential buildings and elevated highways, with an irregular boundary angled approximately 40 degrees southeast and a short campus entrance interface. The design cleverly resolves various unfavorable factors through a unique layout, implanting a new spatial dimension beyond basic school functions, colliding and blending with existing teaching spaces to create unlimited functional and spatial potential to meet the needs of future primary and secondary education. The goal is to provide a dream-chasing stage for children to grow happily. Urban spatial strategy: from the beginning, the design considered the surrounding urban environment as a whole, incorporating the adjacent community center and nearby high-rise residential buildings into the overall planning, striving for breakthroughs and innovation within regulatory requirements. To reduce playground interference with teaching buildings, playgrounds in many school designs are placed in corners far from buildings, but from a larger dimension, for the surrounding high-density urban space, the project rethinks the relationship between school and city. The project by TJAD creates a school that is embedded in its dense urban context while providing generous, flexible learning spaces for children.