Tree Village Campus
Tree Village is the name of the existing site. The planned campus of 350,000sqm is in the north-western district of Haidian in Beijing, directly situated on the fifth ring and in close proximity to the most important universities in China. The proposed development is a new model initiated by a private investor where education for adults is combined with recreation, culture and commerce. Our idea was to develop a pattern specifically for this project that could be applied as a design tool at multiple scales, from the largest scale of the master plan to the smallest scale of a floor tile. First, the pattern is applied over the whole site and then superimposed with a simple grid of streets, thus creating the building-block structure. The resultant plan merges the characteristics and qualities of the typical Beijing street grid and courtyard houses with the zig-zag pathways of traditional Chinese gardens. A north-south axis connects a series of important spaces, from river-front to central square to public park. Meanwhile, passages within and between different blocks and courtyards provide relaxing meandering paths or fast direct shortcuts for frequent users.
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