Xiayu Kindergarten, Shanghai / Atelier Deshaus

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Text description provided by the architects. Xiayu Kindergarten lies in the Qingpu New Town. The area around site is vacant, thus the traditional urban feeling is non-existent. The eastern side elevated highway is a potential source of exhausted gas and noise, but it also provides the possibilities of viewing the building from various eye levels, altitude and speed in process of passing by. The river provides the fine landscape, and it also let us think about the way of ensuring the children’s security and the figure of building by the river. In design of Xiayu Kindergarten, we emphasize the difference between inside and outside. We moderately isolate the inside from the outside of the building by conforming the boundary, thereby creating the difference between them.