Public schools in Shanghai are conservative in their pedagogy and factory-like in their architecture. The new Chonggu Experimental School however provides the potential for a shift in pedagogy from the traditional disciplinary model to less formal, enquiry-based approaches. It also presents a paradigm shift in formal expression – a design shaped fo...
Project name
Chonggu Experimental School, Years 1-9
Architecture firm
BAU Brearley Architects+Urbanists
Location
Qingpu District, Shanghai, China
Design team
James Brearley, Huaili Luo, Wang Liao, He Huang, Zheng Li, Shuangdiao Wang, Xiaohang Qin, Francisco Garcia, Wenxuan Yao
Collaborators
Project Management: Shanghai Qingpu Newcity Development (Group) Co.,Ltd. Engineer & architecture documentation: Shanghai Hanlian Architectural Design Consulting Co. Ltd.
Landscape
Fang Huang, Liexia Guo, Yuqing He, Li Luo, Zhengting Shi
Construction
China Railway No.4 Engineering Group Co.,Ltd.
Client
Shanghai Qingpu District Education Comprehensive Affairs Centre
Typology
Education › Public School
The client having an existing school building in Mahilpur, Hoshiarpur district (Punjab) is a modern school, set among the rural farming village setup which has children coming from all segments of the background.
Project name
Doaba Public School
Architecture firm
Studio Ardete
Location
Mahilpur, Hoshiarpur District, Punjab, India
Photography
Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Principal architect
Badrinath Kaleru, Prerna Kaleru
Design team
Badrinath Kaleru, Prerna Kaleru, Sanchit Dhiman, Nancy Mittal,Anusha Sharma, Abhimanyu Sharma, Pragya Singh,Rahul Ghosh
Structural engineer
Continental Foundations (Vikas Bhardwaj)
Construction
Own Contractors (Girish Khanna And Narinder Pal Singh
Material
Concrete, Steel Bars, Paint
Typology
Educational › School
