Shanghai High School is one of the most prestigious middle schools in Shanghai, and the construction of its new campus has got much attention, hoping that it could be a model for campus construction in some ways. The project site is located in the urban public green corridor of Shanghai Lin-gang Special Area, with one longer side unfolding along the road, while two sides facing the water. Three sides of the site are connected to the landscape, providing favorable environmental conditions.
For a fully residential 48-class high school with a plot ratio of 1.2, a dualistic narrative mode with "city" and "island" as the main body has been chosen, trying to give responding strategies in contrastive, intertextual and structural tension. The design strategy of “One City, One Island” in terms of spatial structure, scenario shaping, and method selection, expresses the reflections on the sharing relationship between the campus and the city, the balancing relationship between the high-intense study life and the relaxing campus environment, and the contrasting relationship in creating spatial atmosphere and experience during the design process, and gives a vision of the island city life.
