Peking University High School Chaoyang Future School

Freely reconfigurable modular furniture replaces rigid rows of desks; interactive learning anywhere replaces teacher-and-blackboard-centered authority; self-directed course selection and walk-through classes replace fixed homerooms. All of this takes place in the newly completed Chaoyang Future School. Future education requires continuous exploration of China's evolving educational model, and the school extends learning into every corner of the campus, letting each student experience teaching and social life fully. Crossboundaries, the designers, give the thirty-year-old campus new life through fresh thinking. The renovation starts from student-centered multi-functional teaching spaces and uses vivid color as a tool, considering city, landscape, architecture and interior from outside in and broad to detailed. It renews the 26,000-square-meter campus while realizing the vision of feeding the community back. Education is part of life; learning should offer every student a full experience without lecturing about the future, but by giving them the ability to adapt flexibly. Reform shifts the center of gravity from teacher authority to student agency, and the campus is designed as a continuous, colorful, flexible learning environment.