Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School

TAO's latest educational building, Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School, is now in use. Located in Haikou, Hainan, the campus includes a forty-eight-class high school with dormitories and an eighteen-class kindergarten, totaling 64,700 square meters. This is TAO's second school project in Haikou and another exploration of educational architecture and locality. Miniature landscape: the site is on the south side of Jiangdong Avenue in Haikou's east coast. Jiangdong New Area has a long coastline and excellent landscape resources including wetlands and mangrove reserves; planning emphasizes ecology, forming a city-nature integrated pattern. The original site was open wetland with pools and green islets. The design treats the whole campus as a miniature pastoral city, responding organically to surrounding nature. Flowing curves wind like rivers, gathering into lakes that become courtyards between buildings; undulating terrain forms hills that become continuous activity fields; tall columns stand like a deep forest, and thin large roofs become floating clouds. The campus landscape is a continuation of the original site, merging with outer fields, greenery, rivers, wetlands and sea into an organic whole. Organic form: free curves and strong colors echo children's innocence and playfulness, and poetic spatial forms make the campus a unique place carrying school-time memories. In the high school design, the aim is to free students from the traditional fishbone layout.