Qianjiang New City Phase II future campus

10 Design, part of the Egis Group, has won the design competition for a major new campus in the Qianjiang New Town Second Area of Hangzhou, designed for 2,000 primary-school pupils. The 74,000-square-metre educational complex will double as an open, child-friendly public space for the surrounding community. Led by design director Peby Pratama, the team developed the concept of a "green-field town," a future-oriented learning platform that follows children's instincts and fuses nature, culture and technology. Rather than a conventional row of teaching blocks, the campus borrows the forms and scales of a small town - fields, streets, squares - to create a series of open, interactive learning and activity spaces. The design exploits the site's riverside setting with a single, undulating green platform as its organising core. The green belt stretches north-south, linking every functional cluster while providing abundant outdoor space for contact between teachers, pupils and nature. It also acts as an extension of the city's green network, bridging the western urban green space and the high-density residential neighbourhood to the east, producing what the team calls a floating oasis in Hangzhou's built-up environment. The master plan includes 48 teaching units plus specialist facilities for science, art, physical education, information technology and the performing arts. Three year-group buildings are placed on the southeast side of the platform, away from the highway, while shared facilities - library, dining hall and activity rooms - line an east-west central corridor beneath it. An 800-seat performance theatre in the northwest corner will be open to local residents. Facades use natural tones and textures to express a safe, healthy green campus; classrooms are oriented to maximise daylight, natural ventilation and views, and student drop-off is handled in a basement hall with a smart queueing system to avoid surface congestion. Pratama describes the project as a learning environment that supports environmental education and social interaction, embodying openness, vitality and sustainability, and serving as both a community school of the future and an international calling card for Hangzhou.