Article source: CJ STUDIO-ShiChieh Lu 

H Academy primarily offers hairdressing courses including hair cutting, dyeing, perming etc. and make-up, nail art additionally. The plan focuses on the teaching process and how the program functions. The teaching consists of academic and practical learning. More complicated activities would be performed in practical learning, so there is only one classroom for academic and two for practical. The hairdressing procedure usually separates into two categories, the primary that takes longer duration and the minor that lasts only temporarily, such as the differences between hair cutting and washing. Thus, space for minor procedure could be shared between two practical classrooms and in turn forms a cycle to each practical classroom. In such specialized relationship of sharing, a lab box that includes washing and perming is embedded between these two classrooms. Eventually, there exists an individual lab box within the interior and becomes “a box within a box” as a layered space.

Image Courtesy © Kuo-Min Lee

• Architects: CJ STUDIO-ShiChieh 
• Project: H Academy
• Location: Datong District, Taipei
• Photography: Kuo-Min Lee
  
• Team: Reya Lu, Shu-Ju Chen, Bos Sun, Ice Chen, Ivan Chen, Yu-Ting Huang
• Built Area: 460 m2
• Completion Year: 2018

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