The project is located in the urban public green corridor of Shanghai Lin-gang Special Area. The design needs to answer some questions: First, how to integrate the campus into the urban public space system as a participant in shaping the urban environment? Second, how to bring out the possibility of relieving stress from efficient and intense study life in terms of spatial design? Third, how to create a traditional and unique spatial language and experience for the new campus?
Finally, a dualistic narrative mode with "City" and "Island" as the main body has been chosen, trying to give responding strategies in contrastive, intertextual and structural tension.
The campus is divided into two parts. One is to further gather the construction capacity to the side along the road, creating a highly intensive micro-study city. The other is to combine the released floor area ratio with the demand of sports facilities, shaping a vibrant green sports island by means of landscape. The island is connected to the city by bridges, and extends to the urban park on the east side, creating the possibility of time-sharing with the city.
As a result, completely different spatial qualities are presented in the Study City and the Green Island. Within the Study City, grouped courtyards and bridges of different heights connect various spaces, embodying rigorous sequences and efficient functions. On the Green Island, there is a suburban atmosphere, and moving freely in green spaces brings a rare sense of relaxation under the pressure of high-intensity study.
In terms of design language, the "City" uses a geometric orthogonal system, matching with warm earth tones, to reflect classic modern space characteristics with warmth, while the "Island" uses flowing curved surfaces, matching with metallic plain colors, to reflect the characteristics of returning to nature and integrating with nature.