主案设计师程枫祺 & 团队 —“小时候我是一个爱幻想的调皮孩子，躺在草地上看天上的云都能幻想出很多故事把自己逗乐，孩子的想象总有独特的魅力和意义，所以我希望我们布置的环境也能唤起孩子们自由想象的世界。”
Principal Designer Vinci Chan & Team —“When I was a kid, I was very playful and imaginative. I liked to lay in the grass, look at the clouds in the sky and imagine stories to entertain myself. The imagination of children is meaningful, with a unique charm to it. On this account, I hope that the environment we create for them can also evoke a world freely imagined by children.”
我们在思考一个问题，在教学过程中，孩子们总会接触到丰富的教学内容。而他们每天生活的空间环境却总是很少有变化的。所以我们希望减少符号的使用，比如“这是大树，这是小房子，这是小城堡，”我们尝试用最基础的几何关系打造一种混沌无常的非直观视觉，希望可以让孩子们按照自己的想象去理解和思考他们每天身处的环境。
When children learn in a classroom, they greatly benefit from rich educational content. However, their day-to-day living spaces often remain repetitive and stereotyped.To address this issue, we avoid the use of static connotations such as “this is a big tree”, “this is a small house”, “this is a small castle”, and rather make use of basic geometric relation that create chaotic, irregular, non-straightforward visuals, prompting children to think about the environment where they live every day and understand it according to their own imagination.
Benebaby国际学院新校区位于深圳福田区兰江山地，占地2000平方，是一间注重综合素质教育的幼儿园机构。VMDPE圆道设计接受了该项目的委托，在项目中试图探讨空间与艺术与儿童探索本性的关系。
The new campus of the BeneBaby International Academy is located over the Lanjiang Hills of the Futian District in Shenzhen, China. Covering an area of 2,000sqm, it is a kindergarten institution that aims to provide comprehensive quality education. VMDPE Design was commissioned to develop the project, exploring the relation between art, space and the natural curiosity of children.
以儿童为本的功能细节-Children-Oriented Functionality
Benebaby国际学院除了有一般的课室，还设有戏剧室、美术音乐教室，以及丰富的室内和户外活动区等功能，旨在培养孩子的全球视野，培养终身学习者。课室设计充分考虑了孩子们的尺度，配备可供孩子自行操作各类设施。如挂衣架、书包柜及作业柜，大面积的白板墙。专门定制的灯具，上下均可发光，柔和而充足的光线漫反射于空间各个角落，同时它还是一个天花吊杆，老师还可以利用定制灯具来进行教室上空的教学环境创作。洗手台的特殊设计可以保证孩子在洗手时不会将水溅到衣服和地上，从细节上尊重孩子一切的成长特性。
In addition to general classrooms, the BeneBaby International Academy houses a drama classroom, an art and music classroom, as well as several indoor and outdoor activity spaces, designed to help the children to build a global vision and to foster lifelong learners.Classrooms are designed to provide a comfortable and appropriately scaled environment for children, equipped with facilities easily operable by them such as clothes hangers, school bags storage cabinets, assignment cabinets and large whiteboard walls.The customized lighting systems emit light upward and downward, diffusing soft and sufficient light to every corner of the space. The lighting system doubles as ceiling hangers that can be used by teachers to create educational atmospheres in the classrooms. The specially designed hand basin ensures that the children don’t splash water on their clothes or over the floor. Altogether, these functional details respect and improve the growth and natural development of children.
▲户外游玩区
丰富的活动空间-Plenty of Space for Multiple Activities
自由的活动区域对于孩子们来说永远是欢乐的天堂。在设计中的每一层都占据了较大的面积比例，在寸金寸土的城市背景下这是少有的幼儿教育空间布局方案。室内有奇妙的”混沌环形空间”，以及充满趣味的麦田圈式室内活动中心。室外则有色彩强烈的体育运动场地，以及融合了沙、石、草地等自然要素的自然户外活动区域，不同风格的活动场所可以满足不同的课程内容，圆道设计希望透过如此丰富的设计方式为孩子创造不同环境下的多样化学习及生活体验。
Free time activity areas are always a joyful paradise for children. Each floor in the project presents large areas reserved for this purpose, a rare view in children’s educational spaces in expensive big cities.Activity centers are creatively designed, the wonderful “disordered ring space” and the fun-filled “wheat crop circles” could be found indoors. Outdoor presents vibrant color sport venues and other activity areas that combine natural elements such as sand, stone and grass. The variety of activity venues provides different solutions to develop class content. VMDPE Design hopes to create different learning and life experiences for children in multiple environments through a comprehensive design approach.
▲多功能厅
对儿童探索的理解-Understanding the Exploring Nature of Children
探索，是孩子了解世界的一种方式，而探索分两种方式，行为上的和思维上的。柏拉图认为，除了我们所能感觉到的客观现实世界外，还存在一个理念世界（world of ideas），而孩子的思维世界就是柏拉图式的世界，是纯粹的精神世界，是混沌的，充满冒险精神的，充满哲学式思考的。
Exploration provides children with a way to understand the world, it could be either behavioral or cognitive.Plato believed that in addition to the real and objective world we perceive, there is also a world of ideas. The children’s mindset in itself is a Platonic world, pure and spiritual, chaotic, full of adventurous spirit and philosophical thinking.
▲通道
无序却和谐的设计语言-A Random Yet Harmonious Design Language
受到这种思想的启发，VMDPE圆道设计试图在这个项目中植入一种新的视觉手法，即不做具象的内容，做充满启发性的“不确定性”的内容。只通过最基本的形状，颜色引起孩子们的想象，为孩子营造奇妙的感知体验。正如蒙德里安对新造型主义的解释：“这种新艺术将会‘发现自我’”，在形状和颜色的抽象化里，即在直线和直观的原始色里。”
Inspired by this thought, VMDPE Design implements new visual techniques that avoid concrete content but focus on inspiring “undetermined” content. Only the most basic shapes and colors are being used to stimulate children’s imagination, creating a wonderful perceptual experience for them. As Mondrian once explained in his theory of Neoplasticism — “This new art will discover itself, in the abstraction of shapes and colors, in straight lines and intuitive primary colors”.Upon walking into the space, we are welcomed by a subtle feeling of randomness, perhaps caused by the sphere floating in the air, or the graceful cave at the corner.
▲情绪缓冲区
行走在空间中，伴随一种微妙的随机性，从漂浮在空中的圆球，到转角处的洞口，直线和弧线交错产生的空间感，构建着让人一眼看不透的空间关系，这些奇妙的感受让置身在其中的儿童产生联想和思考，诠释空间设计对于早期教育的意义——解放思维。
Intersecting straight and curved lines construct a spatial relationship almost invisible at plain sight. Then again, such wonderful impressions make children imagine and ponder. This design approach interprets the meaning of early childhood education: Mindset liberation.
▲交通枢纽
其次，对长条形的场地进行动线梳理，通过运用强化过道区域形态的手法，视觉上扩大场内公共区域，摆脱流动性强的传统走廊式形态，同时丰富空间层次，形成不同尺度的空间及角落，让空间充满变化而促成更多未知性和趣味性，让孩子们可以选择不同的位置进行游戏及社交活动，带着好奇一点点展开探索。每个孩子的内心，都存在一个宇宙。Benebaby国际学院项目的目标，是为孩子构建一个与国际教学标准相接轨的创新型学校，更是创造一个专业而具有创造力的世界，一个能够接壤孩子内心的世界。
Regarding the design approach used to maximize the efficiency of the inherently long-layout of the project, several methods were applied to enrich the main aisle, visually expanding common areas and to avoid traditional corridor-like form and to provide dynamic circulation paths. The approach further develops spatial hierarchy within areas and corners of different scales, forming a versatile atmosphere that encourages exploration through intriguing elements. Here, children can choose different location to play and enjoy social activities, or explore even further simply with their natural curiosity.There is a universe inside every child’s heart. The aim of BeneBaby International Academy is to build a school with international teaching standards for children, but also to create a professional and creative world, a world that links to the hearts of the children.
▲等候区
▲洗手间
项目信息——
项目名称：BeneBaby国际学院（福田校区）
项目地点：中国深圳福田区兰江山地裙楼
设计公司：VMDPE圆道设计
设计时间：2019.6 -2019.9
施工时间：2019.9 -2020.02
场地面积：2260 m²
项目状态：已建成
设计总监: 程枫祺
设计团队: 张健，卢育纯
深化团队：韦柱任，邓静余，陈子龙
项目类型 :外立面改造与室内设计、灯光设计、道具设计
建材及厂家品牌信息
灯光：Philips
地胶：TAJIMA
墙面漆：MYLANDS
摄影：张超，黄安
文字：张森文字工作组
Project information——
Project name: BeneBaby International Academy, Futian Campus
Location: Lanjiang Hills, Futian District, Shenzhen, China
Design company: VMDPE Design
Design period: June 2019 – September 2019
Construction period: September 2019 – February 2020
Site area: 2,260m²
Project status: completed
Lead designer: Vinci Chan
Design team: Dio Chang, Lucy Lu
Design refinement: Sean Ve, Edith Deng, Zilong Chen
Project type: Façade renovation and interior design, lighting design, prop design
Building materials and manufacturers
Light: Philips
Rubber mats: Tajima
Wall lacquer: Mylands
Photography: Zhang Chao, Leno Huang
Article: Sam Zhang
