Tianyou Experimental Primary School and Kindergarten designed by BAU Brearley Architects+Urbanists

BAU were selected through invited competition to design a combined 24-class kindergarten and 48-class primary school on the rapidly urbanizing fringe of Suzhou New District. Previous BAU school projects have lead to outcomes of buildings as figures on a ground of open space. With this project (a primary school and a kindergarten on a smaller site) the figure ground plan can be perceived as the reverse – open space as figures in a ground of building – more Circus Maximus or Piazza Navona than Levittown or Oak Park. Read more here: https://www.bau.com.au/more-piazza-na... Design Firm: BAU Brearley Architects+Urbanists Discipline: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Project location: Dayang Mountain, Suzhou New District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Status: Completed 2020 Client: Suzhou Science and Technology City Social Service Center Typology: Education Program: Kindergarten (24 classes), primary school (Yr1-6, 48 classes), canteen, sports and activities hall. Video credit: Xiazhi