When we started to work on this project four years ago, there was a big controversy on whether the site was suitable for building a primary school, since the height difference in the site is as large as 35 meters.

We thought our solution to the issue should be “the mountain”. We hoped to build a mountain campus, which was promising, accessible and convenient. China's villages mostly "hidden" at the foot of a mountain or on the mountainside. In this project, we tried to lower the height of four teaching buildings as much as possible, setting them perpendicular to the contour lines and radially along the mountain. Between teaching buildings, there are stepped garden platforms, which are spreading along at the foot of the mountain. The main teaching buildings radially facing the roads and sports fields. It created a visual corridor to enjoy mountain views even after all campus buildings finishing construction.

When we build teaching buildings perpendicular to the contour lines of the mountain, we make one end of each building lies at the foot of the mountain. Therefore, the height of the first floor in each building is basically the same. Children use the first-floor corridors at the foot of the mountain to attend school, and then use stairs after arriving at teaching buildings. In this way, our school is as convenient and safe as those built on plain while children can avoid climbing the mountain. In the spare time, children on different floors can go to the nearby stepped garden of the same floor to play and enjoy the vast space, which is not available on the flat campus. The large volume of buildings is visually decomposed and dispersed to form a scattered building group at the foot of the mountain.