This is a view of the workshop as entered from the main school entrance (the 'chute' walkway seen in the background). To the left is a hallway passing the Dean's office and leading to the general staff offices. The workshop was given this lower, 'chute' entrance (as compared to the other rooms) to get the engineering students thinking about the more internal infrastructures of ventilation chutes, and to provide them with a larger amount of room for workshopping.
Staff Offices:
The general staff offices (seen in foreground) connects to the Dean's office (seen in the background) and is given plenty of space and natural light (slit openings in the background). Along with the workshop, it forms the bottom rooms of the school (based of 'cross' perspective drawings).
Dean's Office:
The Dean's office has a larger viewing window as well as the characteristic slits, and a lift which descends directly to the lotus flower folly below where he can have lunch with his students and appreciate the majesty of the valley below.
Gallery:
The gallery forms the most intricate part of the Chinese symbol for school, the horizontal overhanging top part: å¦. During the design process, I decided to keep the diagonal 'flicks' but design them from glass, so as to create intricate, beautiful lighting for the gallery while the students appreciate others' works from the long, horizontal walls (to which artworks are placed) and the flat platforms (to which model buildings are placed).
Student Meeting Space:
From the right part of the overhanging created by the gallery is a staircase that leads down to the student meeting space, where the students can appreciate the full view of the valley where the river leads into the lake. The environment as seen in the background was based of Jiuzhaigou Valley in winter when snowy tops could be seen in the distance.
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