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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Poly WeDo Education Institution in Beijing, China by ARCHSTUDIOApril 30th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ARCHSTUDIO Poly WeDo is a new children’s education brand of Poly Culture Group, which aims at exploring and developing kids’ gift and potentiality in music, and improving their comprehensive art accomplishment. ARCHSTUDIO is invited to do the design for their teaching space within Yongli International Shopping Centre in Workers’ Stadium North Road, Beijing. The top issue to be solved while doing the design thinking is how to create an open, free and flexible modern teaching environment which breaks the limits of rigid structure and creates a feeling of closeness between children and the space.  Lobby, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi
 Lobby, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi The project covers the area cross 7 pillars of the shopping center on the first floor. The basic structure of the space is framework + shear wall, it enjoys an area of about 1000㎡and has a basement with an area of 300㎡. ARCHSTUDIO removes the concrete block wall as much as possible to open up the closed space; a corridor is used to connect the classrooms to the public space. All the teaching spaces including music classroom, private classroom, reception hall, theatre and rehearsal room, etc. stretch out horizontally to the atrium of the shopping Centre. The slope shape roof extends to the wall and then the floor, which becomes the extension of classrooms and public space. The entire teaching space is like a translucent “indoor village”, which presents spaces of variety of scales and texture according to different needs. It presents the kids an intimate, natural and cozy music playing and learning environment.  Lobby, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Private Classroom, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi ARCHSTUDIO introduces green landscape to soften the restriction of structural walls and to keep teaching get in touch with nature all the time. Part of the floor slab of the atrium is removed; the bamboo courtyard extends to the dancing classroom, Yoga classroom and office in the basement. The bamboo courtyard is the highlight of landscape of the entrance hall, and the shift point of traffic of the two floors. Gaps between walls of classrooms are used to create landscape area, thus “outdoor” space are formed in the indoor space. And the combination of plants and book shelves make kids’ reading coexist easily and naturally with rest.  Reading Area, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Office Area, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi Music classrooms need to satisfy acoustical requirements of sound insulation and sound absorption. For the purpose of soundproof, three layers hollow glasses are used for the walls of music classrooms, wood grain aluminum grille and aluminum plate are used for the ceiling. In additional to soundproof treatment, the shape of the slope roof and the wavy surface of grille have the effect of audio mixing. Because of the limitation of height of the small theatre, we keep the original ceiling, only use some sound-absorbing wood panels on part of the wall, which heightens the space visually and achieves excellent acoustic effect as well.  Music Classroom, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Music Classroom, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi Han Wen-Qiang – Founder and Principal Architect of ARCHSTUDIO Han Wen-Qiang, an associate professor in CAFA (China Central Academy of Fine Arts), the founder of ARCHSTUDIO. He mainly researches on contemporary architectural and interior environment based on traditional cultural background, devotes to making space to be the communication medium between people and people, people and environment, and creating a livable life. He has been featured as 2015 One of the Best Ten International “Design Vanguard” by American renowned magazine “Architectural Record”. His works have won many awards, including “LEAF (Leading European Architecture Forum) Awards” Refurbishment of the Year Award, Architizer “A+ Awards” Architecture + Renovation Category Jury Award, “Hospitality Design Award” Open Category Winner of American Hospitality Design magazine, “Best of Year Awards” of American “Interior Design” Magazine; “The 37th Annual Interior Awards” of American “Contract” magazine; “Taiwan Interior Design Award” Gold Award; “Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards” Gold Award; Design for Asia Award Merit Award and WA Design Experiment Award Shortlist Award, etc. His works have also been invited to exhibited at “Towards A Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China” exhibition by Harvard University and 2015 Kwangju Art Biennial in Korea. His works have been widely published by home and abroad renowned publications, including Architectural Record, Architectural Review, Arquitectura Viva, Frame, d+a, Perspective, Taiwan Architecture magazine, Time + Architecture magazine, dezeen, designboom, archdaily, gooood and other famous design websites.  Rehearsal Room, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Small Theatre, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Small Theatre, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Bamboo Couryard, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Dancing Classroom, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Dancing Classroom, Image Courtesy © Xia Zhi  Han Wen-Qiang, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  External Walls, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Previous Lobby, as warehouse, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Previous Small Theatre, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Original Plan, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Floor Plan after renovation, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Concept Analysis, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Axonometric Drawing, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO  Atrium Section, Image Courtesy © ARCHSTUDIO
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