중국 선전 난산외국어학교(Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language School, NSFL) 1

급격히 변화하는 수직적 도시와 대비되는 낮고 짜임새 있는 캠퍼스 환경… 매스의 흐름과 절묘하게 이어진 단면 변화를 통해 이끌어낸 역동적인 학교 시설

중국 광둥성에 있는 신흥 산업도시 선전에 수직적 도시 환경과 대비되는 이색적인 학교시설이 들어섰다. 주변의 밀집 고층 주거군과 낮은 레벨로 한껏 대조되는 모습을 보여주는 선전 난산외국어학교(NSFL)가 그곳이다.

링크아크 스튜디오가 디자인한 NSFL 캠퍼스는 선전 외곽지역에 10여 년간의 수직적인 도시로의 급격한 변화를 담고 있으며, 54,200㎡ 규모에 주변 지형에 맞춰 초등학교와 중학교를 절묘하게 배치한 학교시설이다. 전체적인 건물의 구성은 교실과 도서관, 체육관, 실내 수영장, 강당, 기숙사, 식당, 전용 운동장으로 짜임새 있는 배치를 자랑한다. 특히 곡면으로 굴곡져 흐르듯 이어지기도 하고, 닫히고 열리면서 절묘한 매스의 흐름을 다이내믹하게 연출하는 건물의 공간 개념은 자연 경사를 활용한 다양한 레벨과 체육관, 수영장, 식당, 강당을 형성하는 다채로운 프로그램 볼륨, 매스 곳곳에 자연친화적 분위기를 한껏 고조시키는 수평 정원과 테라스 플랫폼 등을 통해 더욱 흥미롭게 전개된다.

동서로 길게 이어지는 교실의 기다란 수평적 배열은 주변 콘크리트 숲에 적절히 대응하면서 자연광을 최대한 내부로 전해준다. 역동적이면서 길게 늘어선 건물 매스를 브리지와 계단, 테라스와 데크 등의 방식으로 연결하면서 각각의 공간을 서로 이어준다. 매스 곳곳을 흐르듯 이어주는 길에서는 부드럽게 루버와 스크린월을 통해 유입되는 자연광의 향연을 만나게 되고 창을 통해 수직정원의 윤기 나는 기운을 만끽할 수 있게 된다.

이처럼 매스 틈새와 각 레벨 공간을 효과적으로 채워주는 녹지 공간과 다양한 환경 조건에 대응한 유연한 단면 변화를 통해 NSFL 캠퍼스 공간 환경은 낮은 자세로 힘 있는 건축 메시지를 전하고 있다. 건물 전체가 사용자의 환경에 맞추어 짜임새 있고 기능적으로도 완벽한 면모를 보여주는 학교시설의 모범적인 활력 공간인 것만은 분명하다. ANN

Chief Architect Yichen Lu, Razvan Voroneanu

Interior Designer Yichen Lu, Razvan Voroneanu

Project Manager Chunqi Fang, Hyunjoo Lee, Wen Zhu, Ching-Tsung Huang, Shiqi Li

자료_ STUDIO LINK-ARC, Photos by Shengliang Su, Roland Halbe

Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language School (NSFL School) is a 54,000 m² elementary and middle school campus, comprising regular and specialized classrooms, library, gymnasium, indoor swimming pool, auditorium, dormitory, along with dining halls, and dedicated playgrounds. Located in Shenzhen’s DaChong neighborhood, the NSFL elementary and middle school campus represents the last piece of a decade-long development, which saw the area change from a compact industrial outskirt into a vertical city.

The NSFL campus is conceived as a sweeping, horizontal garden that stands in sharp contrast with the ever denser, ever more vertical urban environment it serves. The design intentionally breaks the distinction between building and open space – which defines its surroundings – in favor of a low-rise linear hybrid of closed, semi-enclosed, and green, open spaces. To achieve the low-rise condition, Studio Link-Arc’s design uses the natural slope of the site to top the large program volumes of the gym, pool, dining halls and auditorium with a series of terraced platforms, which become a new ground for dedicated teaching spaces and playgrounds.

This configuration allows an unrestrained linear organization of all teaching spaces without the need to develop the building vertically. The design uses a three-story bar arrangement of staggered classrooms that sweep the site from east to west, chasing every available square inch of sunlight penetrating the surrounding concrete forest. The sinuous motion of classroom ribbons generates a fluid sequence of outdoor spaces tailored to the specific needs of each teaching area. The dynamic, elongated courtyards of the specialized and middle schools turn into enclosed, protective courtyards for the primary school and library, or conversely, open into vast grounds used for physical activities.

The project intentionally breaks with conventional school design – which divides the campus into buildings and functional zones – in favor of a sectional organization of spaces that maximizes access to green space and daylight for each classroom independent of their location. This strategy imposes a perpetual tweaking of the vertical arrangement of spaces, which generates endless sectional variations and creates a highly diverse compendium of spatial conditions for play, recreation, and interaction. The sectional variation spurs a series of spatial configurations that calls for an intelligent response to different environmental conditions. Given Shenzhen’s hot and humid climate, the design introduces a weather protective system formed by hangovers, shading boxes, and corrugated aluminum panels, based on a rigorous year-round solar radiance study.

Building Area: 54,200㎡, Client: China Resources Land, Ltd, Chief Architect: Yichen Lu, Razvan Voroneanu, Interior Designer: Yichen Lu, Razvan Voroneanu, Project Manager: Chunqi Fang, Hyunjoo Lee, Wen Zhu, Ching-Tsung Huang, Shiqi Li, Project Team: Kenneth Namkung, Dongyul Kim, Hyungsun Choi, Yihong Deng, Jing Liu, Yoko Fujita, Simeng Qin, Yishuang Guo, Viviana Wang, Qingyue Gao, Mariarosa Doardo, Jialin Yuan, Wenyun Qian, Xinhui Wen, Architect & Engineer of Record: Architectural Design and Research Institute of Guangdong Province, Int Construction Document: Shenzhen Ruihe Construction Decoration Co.,LTD, Landscape Designer: Lab D+H, Landscape Architect of Record: Shenzhen Landscape Co.,LTD Structural Consultant: Yoshinori Nito Engineering & Design PC Curtain Wall Consultant: EFC Engineering Co.,LTD, Lighting Consultant: Ning Field Lighting Design Co.,LTD, Green Building Consultant: Shenzhen Institute of Building Research, Construction Manager: Yuanda International Engineering Management Consult Co.,LTD, General Contractor: China Resources Construction Corp.

>>STUDIO LINK-ARC Based in New York City, Studio Link-Arc, LLC is an international team of architects and designers. Our name, Link-Arc, refers to the practice’s collaborative nature as well as the company’s mission, which is to work across disciplines to create strategy and design in the fields of urban planning, architecture, spatial art and landscape. We accomplish this by linking knowledge, resources, and intelligence, from multiple perspectives and diverse backgrounds. Our body of work includes innovative projects at all scales. We see the relationship between architecture and context as an opportunity to create new context, new nature and a new understanding of the world. Through research, we uncover the essential truths unique to each project, and use those truths to create concepts and to shape form. We endeavor to create refined works of architecture. We create spaces that promote contemplation and imagination, and provide quiet satisfaction through the simple act of occupation. We approach each project with an open mind. We work to understand the constraints unique to each project and integrate them into our process, allowing our work to develop in an informed manner. We address societal and cultural issues in our work, which promotes design integrity and the understanding that context extends beyond the physical. Our intellectual approach is based on openness to challenge. We gain strength from diverse cultural backgrounds and contexts and see architecture as a discipline that transcends the pragmatic act of building. We believe that architecture can be an inclusive discipline that rises to the challenges of the current era.

>>Yichen Lu Yichen Lu, Principal of Studio Link-Arc, holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts from Tsinghua University in China. He was awarded the Ikuo Hirayama Scholarship in 1999, and was nominated for the 2008 H.I. Feldman Prize for his work in Frank Gehry’s Advanced Studio at the Yale School of Architecture. His design project “Planless House in Manhattan” was awarded First Prize in the 2006 Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition. He received the Iconic Award from the German Design Council in 2014 and 2016, and was one of ten architects ‘2015 Design Vanguard’ winners selected by ‘Architectural Record’. Between 2008 and 2010 Yichen Lu worked as a project architect at Gehry Partners, LLP, where he was responsible for the design of many projects, including the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Between 2010 and 2012 he was a project manager at Steven Holl Architects, and managed the firm’s many award-winning projects in China. Lu founded Studio Link-Arc in 2012. He served as the chief architect (on behalf of Tsinghua University) for the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015. This commission, China’s first Expo Pavilion outside its borders, opened in 2015 to international acclaim. Yichen Lu has been an associate professor at Tsinghua University since 2012. In 2016, Lu served as a visiting professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and the Politecnico di Milano. In that same year, he was invited to participate in an exhibition and symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design titled “Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China”.