OPEN Architecture designed over-flow water sprouts and water catch basins, traditional pavement patterns, and different water features to enhance the building’s aesthetics. This strategy further serves to overcome the constant maintenance of traditional white plaster. The building is wrapped in an envelope of board-formed white concrete to pay tribute to the traditional ‘white-wall-grey-roof’ architecture of the Suzhou area. The five-building volumes contain unique spaces for reading, sports, and arts, each with its personality, but together forming a synergetic whole. The building complex allows air and light to permeate, with natural lighting and ventilation playing a significant role in reducing energy consumption. During school holidays, the theater, sports center, and swimming pool can all be open to the public. As an interface between the school and the city, the project shares many facilities with the community outside the campus. ![]() Shanfeng academy: inward facing and community-sharingĪlthough divided between multiple structures, OPEN Architecture’s Shanfeng Academy building is expressed as a unified, inward-facing whole that is shielded from the surrounding city. These voids act as un-inked areas in traditional Chinese landscape drawings, providing breathable spaces where people can relax and slow down while light and shadows, changing skies and clouds, raindrops, and falling leaves animate them. On top of the walkways is the fifth garden, a place of retreat and gathering that connects all the main functional spaces above and below. Between the gardens and solid volumes are semi-outdoor walkways where colonnades and their shadows create voids. To maximize space and accommodate the large user population, the team at OPEN Architecture divided the Shanfeng Academy building into a cluster of five individual structures, all connected by rooftop walkways. Image © Jonathan Leijonhufvud| and interconnected buildings by open architecture The architects note that during the project’s development, they were deeply influenced by the intricate Chinese landscape drawings and traditional Suzhou Gardens, which they sought to honor while addressing contemporary urban and educational challenges. The project is designed to accommodate the needs of the Mountain Kingston Bilingual School’s nearly 2,000 students while at once serving as a cultural hub for the local community. ![]() The team at OPEN Architecture celebrates the completion of its Shanfeng Academy building, a cultural and sports center situated in the new district of Suzhou.
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