Enjoy a Bird’s-Eye View Over a Unique Kindergarten Reconstruction and Expansion Project

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Located in the first residential community built in Shenzhen in the 1980s, the Kindergarten of Museum Forest imagines a new geometric relationship between the site, building and city. To account for the irregular shape of the lot, the collaborating firms, Yunchao Xu, Atelier Apeiron and SZAD, broke the project into several volumes, which they arranged along a series of axes in different directions, joining them with a jumble of bridges and platforms. As a result, the classrooms are flooded with light and air.

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