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Architects: Perkins Eastman
- Area: 119000 m²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Fangfang Tian
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Manufacturers: CompactWood Interior & Exterior Surfaces, Gerflor Flooring Group, Jiangsu Trans Build Tech Co. Ltd.
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Lead Architects: Ron Vitale AIA, Yi Shen AIA
Text description provided by the architects. The Whittle School and Studios Suzhou Campus is beautifully situated on a gracious 7.5 ha waterfront site in the heart of the high-speed rail new town district in Suzhou, China. A 19 minute- commute from Shanghai, the new purpose-built 119,000sm facility is designed to accommodate 2,500 students, grades Pre-K through 12, in a boarding school environment that supports the Whittle philosophy, “learning happens any place all the time”. The campus is comprised of several courtyard-style academic buildings, a sports and performing arts center and a 1000 student residential hall. The design provides high performance, flexible learning spaces that enhance the Whittle’s core academic curriculum and facilitate interdisciplinary, problem-based project work, bi-lingual and experiential learning programs. Designed to meet a LEED for Schools Silver benchmark and China Greenstar (two star) requirements, the new state-of- the-art campus is poised to become one of the premier boarding school campuses in Asia.
