- Area: 5000 m²
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Photographs:Lou Yongqi, Yuval Zohar
Text description provided by the architects. In January 2010, the China-US Center for Sustainable Development approached TEKTAO to lead the design and construction coordination of a new sustainable school in Liangping County to replace one damaged in the 2008 earthquake. The goals outlined from the onset of the project were to build a safe, sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective school. The school's brief specified 560 students (12 classes) and 5,000 m² of program with a 15 million RMB budget that was donated in part from the Liangping government and in part by charitable organizations. The site chosen was a beautiful plot of terraced agriculture in the rural Jindai County, just opposite the ancient Shuang Gui Temple. After a three month design phase in collaboration with American green design experts, followed by a six week construction document period, the school was under construction for 10 months and has been completed as of April 2011. During the week directly preceding the opening ceremony, TEKTAO lead a workshop along with Tongji University involving the Jindai school students and faculty, along with the local community, to facilitate the transition of the school’s ecological and social design ideas into real-world practices.
