Reported by: MU Ye
Translated by: REN Shuman
Edited by: Jonathan Wylie
Recently, 2014 Sustainable Building Design Competition for National College Students ended in Beijing. HIT architecture students won first place in the total number and grade of winning works. The work Periphery and Core (Wei He), created by FU Hao, LV Hangda and ZHANG Yuqiao,won the grand prize. The other entries won one first prize, two second prizes, six third prizes and seven excellence awards.
LI Lingling and XI Tianyu, advisers of the team that won the grand prize, introduced the subject, which was designing the hall of an architectural department building. Participating students were supposed to create their work using digital design techniques combined with advanced education technical measures. FU, LV and ZHANG explained that, “Considering the spatial types of architectural department hall and learning activities of architecture major students, we created the “Periphery” space as the students’ studio which helps them create works with a higher degree of privacy. The “Core” space, which is open, was designed for discussion. Based on this, we placed the big “Core” at the center and set the small “Core” inside of the “Periphery”. The former represents center and the latter means coming into fusion. We wanted to create an architectural department hall which fits modern architectural education with the combination of “Core” and “Periphery”.”The design of Periphery and Coreis focused on demand and the study experience of students. They use green technology to design a system which is energy efficient and environmental friendly, finding out a new form of composition for education.
The National College Architectural Committee hosted the competition, with the goal of encouraging entries to make conceptual and technological innovation. The competition emphasizes future architectural education while focusing on cultural heritage. Furthermore, it stimulates students to create spaces with advanced design concepts, innovative spatial morphology and advanced technology as designers and users to present a blueprint of dreams.
The grand prize design, Wei He
