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Picture Book
The entrance to a fairy tale world, and a gateway to a child’s life.
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The March Picture Book is where children first encounter the world of fairy tales. It introduces the concept of “Hello, fairy tale.”
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Designed as an entrance to a fairy tale world, featuring one large and one small doorway symbolizing the relationship between adults and children, March Picture Book aims to bring picture books closer to children through shared parent-child reading experiences.
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The March Picture Book Reading Space focuses on dual enlightenment by combining children’s reading with English learning. It encourages reading with a serious attitude, joyful mood, and engaging methods, offering the best path for children to develop a habit of reading English picture books and naturally acquire a second language.
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The reading space boasts a 5-meter floor height, creating a tall and spacious atmosphere. Various arch sizes are carved into the walls, crafting a unique and intriguing facade that sparks curiosity and invites visitors to explore the inner world. Reading offers children a way to understand the world beyond the constraints of reality.
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How should we approach intervention and spatial consideration?
Form follows emotion rather than function.
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Reading offers children a way to explore and understand the world beyond the limits of reality.
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Plato believed that beyond the reality and the objective world we perceive, there exists a world of ideas. Children’s minds are adventurous, pure, chaotic, spiritual, and full of philosophy, yearning to explore that world.
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The cabinets in the aisle and classroom walls interlock like stacked building blocks, separated from the curved reading area wall to form a passage leading to the storage room. This creates a unique visual experience and blurs spatial boundaries.
△ Classroom 1
On one side of the classroom corridor, natural light streams in, casting long shadows and creating a flower field full of childlike charm.
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△ Corridor of Classroom 2 and Classroom 3
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Close-up of circular windows in Classroom 2 and Classroom 3
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To maximize the efficiency of the existing L-shaped layout, multiple techniques enrich the corridors. Simple geometric shapes carve openings in the walls, creating areas of different scales and using corner spaces with intriguing elements that encourage exploration.
The corridor leading to the restroom and storage room
Behind Classrooms 2 and 3, a sloping corridor leads to a small bathroom and storage space designed specifically for children. The size of the openings matches the scale of the main reading area, with one tall and one low doorway, emphasizing the intimate relationship between children and adults throughout the space.
△ Overview of Space
Rethinking the connection between play and education to inspire the next generation of creative thinkers.
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Project Information
Design Unit: One Design Studio
Location: Shenzhen, China
Category: Educational Services
Designers: Fan Junjian, Zhou Xuanzhuo
Design Team: Wu Leqing, Hao Xingyun
Area: 150 square meters
Year: 2020
Photography by Zhang Chao
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