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Wuhan, China
How big is a child’s world?
The kindergarten begins with three scales of loop: a large route for meeting nature, a middle scale for everyday activities, and small places for private discoveries. Circular rooms and courtyards form a landscape of learning and play, allowing the journey between activities to become part of the day.
Different sizes of enclosure give the kindergarten a varied spatial rhythm.
Embrace nature. Experience life. Share secrets.
The largest loops open toward outdoor play and planting. Smaller loops organise daily activities, while intimate corners offer places for imagination and retreat. Each classroom unit is paired with a courtyard so that indoor learning can extend outside. A central circulation hub and individual classroom entrances support the daily movement of teachers and children.
Read the courtyards and their surrounding rooms together: each unit has a local centre within the larger network of loops.
Let the boundary change along the way.
The elevations bring the looping plan back to the body. Curved walls, openings, and changing heights make a sequence of edges around outdoor spaces. The project draws on children’s poetry as a way to imagine a school where ordinary routines can include exploration, planting, conversation, and quiet moments.
The elevations show how the continuous route meets the ground, the garden, and the scale of its youngest occupants.
Nature / Everyday life / Small discoveries
A school made of places to discover.
The loop gives the kindergarten continuity, while its changing scale makes room for different ways of being together and apart.
Back to the beginning ↑- Location
- Wuhan, China
- Studio
- HUST Studio Project
- Instructor
- Ting Zhang
- Collaboration
- Individual work