Sengo Kindergarten

City: Guangzhou, China
Area：7300㎡
Type：Architectural design
Date：2020-09-01

We have always believed that divinity and humanity will make a common promise at a certain moment. In the constant "restart" we ask ourselves, what is the ideal kindergarten for children? Does the kindergarten have to be cubes? What is the soul in the kindergarten? Is it the same? The mediocrity day after day is a huge consumption, which consumes talent, enthusiasm and hope, and repeats the cycle in the worldly chain.

The process of creation is beautiful, without saying anything, and constantly digging out powerful forces from the smallest things. The light of the world is waiting to be captured. Dreams about the ideal country seem to shine into reality, reappear in front of you, and stand in front of you. On every piece of unbuilt land, the needs of the kindergarten building itself are realized. Perhaps the meeting of the building's landing and inspiration is a destined and natural thing. It has nothing to do with time, but it is related to eternity.

A prosperous kindergarten does not mean that he has a soul, and a good kindergarten education concept must not be written on the wall, only one bit by bit, one stroke by one stroke, to flood his own life and build a rich spirit. The world can inadvertently penetrate and spread to every corner of the soul.

Architecture is to assist education. The purpose is to make education more effective. Only through building a real educational environment can children feel it. We hope that the spirit and vitality expressed by architecture will be long-lasting, even as time goes by. The surface has been eroded or peeled off, but this "dandelion seed" can still stand quietly and motionlessly in the changing world of light, shadows, clouds, water, and the growth of all things.

All the primitive forces of the environment are the freedom of imagination. In the mysterious light falling from the zenith and the sound of gurgling water, children may have a feeling of leaving reality and entering another time and space and world.

Based on regional considerations, it was demonstrated that reinforced concrete was used as the main structure, supplemented by the steel frame to bring more flexible curves to the building appearance; the double corridors with inner and outer rings, plus the main facade glass curtain wall, introduced more to the building Sunshine and light allow the overall building of Shengguo Kindergarten to meet the sunshine requirements of the garden, and also meet the requirements of good ventilation, moisture-proof, heat insulation and sun protection, and it can also cope with the invasion of seasonal typhoons.

The continuous opening of the inner ring and the outer ring breaks the fixed relationship of space and connects the functional spaces of different attributes. Children gather here to experience the beauty of colors. The world is a sea of blue, and the uncertainty of space may become Part of the children's spatial memory and growth, all the marks and thoughts about growth are inadvertently engraved in every corner of the space.

In the design of the movement line, it broke the traditional kindergarten design with one corridor and multiple classrooms, cut off the redundant decoration, and interspersed the functional education public space in the main classroom area, so that the dynamic and static areas are more closely combined, giving children more flexible activity space , To encourage children to break the rules and meet the exploration desire and social needs of children at different stages.

The space emphasizes transparency and sight penetration. The large area of glass integrates the natural landscape outside the window with the space, allowing natural light and energy to flow in without reservation, allowing children to walk into any corner of the space and be in the natural light. in

Light is everything, without light, there is no life. The architecture uses measurable light, space and order to present and capture the deep shadows and inner beliefs hidden behind the light. You will involuntarily remember the words of Louis Kahn: "The sun never knows how great it is until it hits the building."

The structure can create light and shadow. When the sun’s brilliance penetrates through the round holes into the kindergarten, when you look up close, each hole is a magnifying glass, magnifying countless souls and freedoms. The children under the magnifying glass are running along with the space. With gradual indentation, the children themselves become the key factors for measuring, exploring, reading and experiencing the space. The relationship between the children, the building, and the surrounding environment is thus established.

Each dome, under the light cast by the sun, began to talk to God, and the silence seemed to reverberate with oracles. Hearing with ears up, the inadvertent light touched everyone's heart.

A certain place will always become the freeze frame of a specific scene in memory. Symmetrical, orderly, pure, real materials, shadows cast by geometric forms, generously presenting thoughts and ideas, creating a fascination with light, a kind of noness The orderly nature brings the children into the beauty of dreams, which is probably a kind of natural and disorderly beauty formed by the acquired arrangement of architecture.

When the sun rises and the sun shines on the wall, a special kind of beauty is produced in this way. The gentle and powerful light has reached a good tacit agreement with the wall. Naturally, these things were not created, those that did not exist. But in front of "artificial objects" even at a loss.

For a good kindergarten, the architectural space must allow children to feel the difference in time every season and every day. Space is the most basic part of the building. We can even see that children behave differently in large and small spaces. Yes, the kindergarten "design" is not to solve a practical problem, but to open up another world when the children really need it.