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Project name: Hangzhou West Coast Kindergarten Architect: CLOU architects Program: Education Location: Hangzhou City, China Design Team: Lin LI, Jon Clostermann, Zhi Zhang, Tiago Tavares, Sebastion Louiza, Tait Koplon, Kyra Zhooo, Alessandra Interior Design:Hangzhou Haitian Enviroment ART Design co.ltd Photography: Chill Shine
גן הילדים של החוף המערבי בתכנון של CLOU architects ממוקם באזור ליאנגז'ו מצפון-מערב לעיר האנגג'ואו בסין. חלקתו בעלת צורה מלבנית צרה הפונה ישירות לרחוב הראשי וצמודה לרחוב הקמעונאי בחוף המערבי. הפרויקט בשטח בנייה של 4,900 מ'ר. הבטחת מקום מתאים לפעילויות גן ילדים ועמידה בדרישות תאורה במגבלות של זמינות קרקע מוגבלת היא האתגר העיצובי העומד בפני פרויקט זה.
CLOU’s design employed a strategy akin to building blocks, where each classroom serves as a module. Through layering and stacking, the architectural floor area is significantly condensed, thereby freeing up limited space. This not only ensures ample playground area for collective activities in the kindergarten but also provides each classroom with its own ‘mini playground’ for creative exploration.
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
Photo Credit: Chill Shine
Photo Credit: Chill Shine
Photo Credit: Chill Shine
Photo Credit: Chill Shine
This outdoor space creates a closer connection between indoor and outdoor environments, acting as an extension of indoor classrooms. It offers children more possibilities to experience growth, learning, and play in various ways. Underneath the stacked blocks, an open and brightly lit double-height public space is formed. The variation in scale enriches children's spatial experience and provides more flexible possibilities for different activities to take place. This layout also cleverly ensures that each classroom receives ample south-facing natural light, allowing children to learn and grow in an environment filled with natural sunlight.
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
Unlike the majority of colourful kindergarten designs, colour application in this project is extremely restrained. The facades of the buildings are predominantly white, allowing children to be the true protagonists, while the architecture and spaces merely serve as a backdrop for them to express their nature. The limited colour palette adopts a combination of the Le Corbusier Color Pallete. Delineating a sense of geometry through the ‘lines’ of door and window frames and the ‘planes’ of pitched roof structures. This inspires children's sense of space and aesthetic consciousness. Gazing into the West Coast Kindergarten from a distance, it resembles a man-made hill constructed from stacked building blocks, blending its undulating skyline seamlessly with the surrounding environment. West Coast Kindergarten is a design tailored for its site, aiming to ignite children's curiosity through outdoor spaces that extend from indoors. CLOU hopes that in such a simple, unadorned environment, every child's nature and creativity can be unleashed.
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
 Photo Credit: Chill Shine
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