2铁门关华山中学新校区
上海
An institutional library atrium featuring dramatic diagonal roof beams and abundant top-lighting, useful as a precedent for luminous, multi-level educational interiors.
- What we like about this project
- Diagonal beams break the orthogonal floor plan overhead, creating complex shadow patterns across the white ceiling.
Materials
- timber
- plaster
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- diagonal-beams
- double-height-atrium
- light-wood-shelving
- stepped-seating
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimal
- institutional
Visual tags
- library
- atrium
- daylighting
- institutional
- wood-and-white
- educational
- Geometry
- A double-height central atrium crossed by diagonal white structural members and flanked by mezzanine levels with glass railings.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete composite frame supporting folded roof planes and long-span diagonal roof beams.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale institutional atrium, roughly two to three stories high, with a single person seated for scale.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight pouring down from upper clerestories and skylights, creating bright reflective white surfaces and soft shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, airy, and flooded with clean daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior school library space with daylight filtering in from high exterior windows.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive and luminous; the high volume draws the eye upward to intersecting beams and top lighting, while lower stepped seating provides human-scale enclosure.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal structural bracing cuts across the longitudinal axis, contrasting with the vertical rhythm of lower bookshelf bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional minimal
- Program
- School library or media center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, plaster, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- diagonal-beams, double-height-atrium, light-wood-shelving, stepped-seating
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimal, institutional
- Visual tags
- library, atrium, daylighting, institutional, wood-and-white, educational
- Geometry
- A double-height central atrium crossed by diagonal white structural members and flanked by mezzanine levels with glass railings.
- Structural guess
- Steel or concrete composite frame supporting folded roof planes and long-span diagonal roof beams.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale institutional atrium, roughly two to three stories high, with a single person seated for scale.
- Lighting
- Diffused daylight pouring down from upper clerestories and skylights, creating bright reflective white surfaces and soft shadows.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, airy, and flooded with clean daylight.
- Environmental context
- Interior school library space with daylight filtering in from high exterior windows.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive and luminous; the high volume draws the eye upward to intersecting beams and top lighting, while lower stepped seating provides human-scale enclosure.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal structural bracing cuts across the longitudinal axis, contrasting with the vertical rhythm of lower bookshelf bays.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional minimal
- Program
- School library or media center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture