Shekou Primary School was established in 1945 which provided basic education for fishermen's children at that time. Shekou Middle School, as its counterpart, was founded adjacent in 1970, divided by a mere wall with Shekou Primary School for decades. In 2003 the two institutions merged under the name of Shekou School. In late 2022, as the Shekou School was added to the final list of the "Hundred Schools Renewal" plan in Shenzhen, it triggers a chance of this renovation project.
Current Conditions & StrategiesDecades of fragmented renovations had resulted in ambiguous spatial relationships between buildings and their surrounding external space. As the total construction time is restricted within 2 summer vacation periods, the core issue of renovation focuses mainly on two aspects: resolving essential functional needs and redefining a more appropriate relationship between buildings and external spaces. Meanwhile, each new gesture was conceived not as an erasure of the existence, but as a dialogue with the site's embedded texture, allowing old and new to coexist and creating a new identity of the campus.
First Courtyard "Vestibule": Flow & GatheringShekou School sits at the topographical high point of the district. The first open space after entering from the south gate is an irregular outdoor area which lack of basic spatial enclosure. This transitional zone harbored three fragmented parts: a provisional dining area at the far west end, a simple school gate on the south side, and an abandoned triangular corner at the east end. Next to this triangular corner was the existing kitchen and logistics entrance, which locates far from the western dining area creating a functional problem.
This irregular space after entering the south gate could be interpreted as an oversized "vestibule", the core strategy is to create a spatial hierarchy reorganizing the pedestrian flow and gathering. We conceived a covered pathway system tracing the serpentine contours of the "vestibule",integrating three parts as a whole: the expanded dining space on the west side, the new gate on the south side, and the newly added dining space in the triangle corner on the east side. The continuous covered pathway engages in a symbiotic interface with the mature trees along the campus boundary, bringing a sense of enclosure to the vestibule.
After the renovation, the new school gate grew out from the original terrain visually, emphasizing the solidity of the volume. The duality of the gate interface allows different gesture: on the urban side as a large-span cave, while on the campus side as colonnaded facade. The column positions aligns with the paving grid of the square's original stonework, and the "absence" of the 6cm high column base at the bottom articulates a dialogue between old and new, bringing a sense of sculptural quality to the new gate.
The covered pathway transforms into several dining platforms following the natural slope in the triangle aera, formulating different courtyards with appropriate scales, creating a comfortable dining environment. The angular contours of these platforms adapt to the site's triangular geometry and existing trees precisely, simultaneously inspiring a dynamic umbrella-like framework geometry for the overhead steel canopy structure. Within the compact triangular site, the green color of the platform allows an intimate relationship with the existing trees and the aluminum panel with vertical texture also responds to the subtle scale of the landscape, creating a distinctive spatial atmosphere and formulating a more positive interface to the street.
Second Courtyard "Atrium": Volume and SurfaceThe second courtyard enclosed by several buildings is a regular square where the activities of students are relatively concentrated, like a large atrium. We improved the quality of this external space mainly by dealing with the initial negative vertical interface: We complete the fragmented volume of the building and transform the initial window-wall system facade into a column-and-slab motif merely by painting, which gives the building a relative open gesture towards the public playground. Meanwhile, the formerly protruding central curtain wall was removed and reversed as a semi-outdoor "performance platform", creating an intimate viewing dynamic with the children's energetic activities.
Third Courtyard "Living Room": Resonance with LandscapeThe third courtyard in Shekou school is the most public space — the sports field. It functions as an outdoor living room gathering the entire school community. Instead of a clear distinction between buildings and landscape, we conceive buildings and existing trees as a symphonic interface. The north facade of the Art Building performs as a visual anchor point of the "outdoor living room" along its long axis. After completing the building's volume, the white loggia facade formulates a formal face towards the outdoor open space and acts simultaneously as a quiet background nestled among the trees.
For the west building clusters nestled within tree canopies, we implemented a forest-green steel grating system across their facades and rooftops, covering AC units on the facade and defining an ark-like layer on the top of the building sheltering a public platform. The porous steel screens create a dynamic veil that filters sunlight into ever-shifting patterns of shadow and luminance as an organic dialogue resonating with the surrounding landscape. In the garden between the building cluster, a small garden bridge as a twin counterpart of the Big Ark echoes an analogous architectural language, forming a three-dimensional interplay, creating an immersive spatial experience.
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项目信息
建筑设计:大屿建筑事务所
项目地点 :深圳市南山区蛇口学校
建设时间 :2023年暑期 及2024年暑期
建筑面积:35000平方米
撰文:于岛
完整项目信息
项目名称:边界刻画与整体织补:深圳蛇口学校改造
项目地点:深圳市南山区蛇口学校
项目功能:改造、教育、建筑
建筑面积:原有建筑面积35000平方米
设计时间:2022年—2023年
建设时间:2023年暑期 及2024年暑期
设计团队:
设计单位:大屿建筑事务所
主持建筑师:于岛
工作室联系邮箱:info@yuarchitects.cn
项目建筑师:刁佳敏、胡继樟
技术总监:刘扬
设计团队:刁佳敏、胡继樟、孙中维、张祎、朱维涛、黄雄深、蔡依葵、何丹晴、曹恩沛、杜文婷、牛柏乔
驻场建筑师:胡继樟、张祎、于岛
施工图设计:深圳市同济人建筑设计有限公司
施工图团队:张凌飞、周浩、蔡小欢(建筑);陈奕华、叶军(结构);朱国权、廖建松、魏理华(给排水);赵铁刚、潘峙男(电气)
策划与组织团队:
深圳市“百校焕新”总策划:周红玫
深圳市“百校焕新”学术策划:朱竞翔
学术导师组:庄慎、王方戟
组织协调:杨利君、董书赞、高雪香、游金兰、赵之昆、林嘉霓、尧红刚、李文杰(南山区工务署);杨珺、刘小宁、徐乾财、邓剑飞、那庆(南山区教育局);何英杰(百校焕新秘书组)
校方:王小洪、贺中玉
各参与单位:
项目决策:南山区委区政府
项目管理:南山区工务署
决策支持:南山区教育局、规自局南山管理局、南山区住建局、南山区发改局
策划顾问:深圳市规划和自然资源局、香港中文大学建筑学院
业主与建设单位:南山区工务署
使用方:南山区教育局、南山区蛇口学校
代建单位:中信城开投资集团有限公司
施工单位:广东联富建设工程有限公司、深圳市彬绿园林有限公司
监理单位:广东中弘策工程顾问有限公司
纪录片创作:牛牛映画
项目摄影:罗必争、大屿建筑
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