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The Endless Boundary


BArch  Year 3 in Huaqiao University, China, 2018
Tutor: Xu Weiwei


In China, children are often compared to “the rising sun”, waiting to bright the future of the country. However, the extremely intensive education weaves a beautiful dream of a promising future and pushes everyone to think and fight for the same. Many Chinese children are highly oppressed by pressure from their parents, peers, teachers and the society, hardly allowed to do almost anything other than study.


“The Rising Sun”

The school is located in Xiaman, one of the four earliest Chinese Economic Zones. With the increasing pressure of peer-competition and unproper administration of teachers, “more extracurricular activities for students” is reduced to merely a slogan.

Site Plan

The order of space reflects the order of social life. If we look at the current prevailing design for primary school, I would say that space is the accomplice of the murderer of childhood.

Thus, The Endless Boundary proposes a new spacial prototype for the Chinese primary school to enable more autonomy of students on their everyday space, thus leads towards a new pedagogy.

The Classroom Revolution: From Closed-source Space to Open-source Space


Activity Revolution: From the Regimented to the Self-defined

The activites of children can be grouped into 3 categories that happen in 3 typical spaces:
1. Classrooms for regular education.
2. Green space for outdoor activities.
3. Blank space for the extension of traditional class education and organized activities like Art Festival and debate competitions.

The hierarchy of space enables students to distribute their own activities, thus leading to the open-source school.
First Floor Plan

Schedule Revolution: Cross-programming and A Flexible Spatial-temporal Relationship

In the Endless Boundary, curriculum is no longer limited in the single distributed space but can happen in different space in different ways.


Cross-programming is the superimposition of different events that happen in the same space at different times. It allows a more flexible use and keeps architectural space away from certain specific and determined meanings.

Every child could be the "adopter" of a part of the wall in the blank space, which gives play to their own talents and cultivates their senses of responsibility. During holidays which last for totally 3 months, artists are encouraged to use the blank space as their studios with walls as their drawing boards, presenting a gift for the beginning of a new term.
Continuous Space from Section 

In general, The Endless Boundary proposes a new prototype for the primary school in China. The new spatial relation enables more autonomy of students and breaks the boundaries of each space by creating a continuous experience, so that children can escape from the trap of the predetermined and fixed school space and explore for themselves, living up to their maximum potential.

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