• Whittle School
    This building represents the first Whittle School & Studios project in China and will be part of a system of 30 WSS campuses in the World’s leading cities.

     

    This building represents the first Whittle School & Studios project in China and will be part of the 30 WSS  campuses in the World’s leading cities.

     

    The 18m-high central volume is levitating 6m above grade with its mass is divided into eight blocks. The ground and three upper floors are set back to emphasize the volume of the middle four levels. A smaller three-story building sits just West, with a landscaped playground in front.
  • Completion (2019)
    Ground floor and three upper floors

     

    Scope of work
    M series turnkey solution

     

     

    Architect
    RPBW Renzo Piano

    At the core of the design is the view that a school should be like an educational village. The school’s size and scale are comparable to that of a medieval hilltop Italian town made of singular buildings interacting with each other. As the medieval layout has a piazza for its residents to gather and meet, the programmatic blocks of the school are gathered around a central node of activities for the students'  social life.

  • The 18m-high central volume is levitating 6m above grade and its mass is broken up into eight blocks. The ground and three upper foors are set back to emphasize the volume of the middle four levels. A smaller three-storey building sits just West, with a landscaped playground in front.

     

Medellin
Hong Kong
Toronto
Suzhou