Xianlin School

Originally planned as a 42-class junior high school, Xianlin School has been temporarily used as an elementary school for the past three years. As a highly restrictive building type, the school also forces us to carefully examine the universality of the standards applied to hundreds of schools for two age groups of students, avoiding both the rigidity of a conventional fishbone pattern and the impact of excessive formality on teaching use.

Therefore, this project itself involves a response to the current Chinese school model, addressing a series of universal issues and their relationships, including the balance between large-capacity teaching models and large-scale buildings, layout patterns and rigid spacing control, classroom units and structural span regulations, the area of public space and economic construction, student sensory scale and activity convenience, transportation pressure on surrounding communities caused by commuting to and from school, and the connection with community openness and sharing. These many issues are hidden in a standard plot ratio, so we have given this project a code name: FAR = 1.0.