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Liaoning Police and Justice Administrators College

2011-02-02

Project Information

Project Location:
China Shenyang, Liaoning
Project Scale:
24.7 Hectares
Design Time:
2007
Build Time:
2011
Client:
Liaoning Police and Justice Administrators College
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Project Profile

1. Project Statement

We intend to create a campus full of modern flavor but with great harmony between human and nature. It should reflect the local culture, with its own environmental characteristics, and it must be both economical and practical. In order to achieve that, the principles below are followed during the planning process: design with natural characters; out of the nature, but into the nature. Assembling parts into a whole, architectural distribution is relatively concentrated, and courtyard layout is adopted. Buildings face towards the east and the west, reducing visual barrier of the north-south view corridor. Half-covered in earth, buildings are organically integrated with terrain. Buildings built on stilts minimize the depredation of existing plants.

2. Design Strategy

Four major features of the plan are listed below:

1) Terrain

The terrain pattern full of local characteristics is reserved so that the sense of wildness is kept as well. Buildings are located at the foot of semi-ring shaped mountain, surrounding the centre valley which will be the main open space of the campus. And a gully is restored and reused as the main landscape corridor through the campus.

2) Open Spaces

Modern design language is used to design the open spaces following the natural terrain while accenting the mountain shape character. Several green belts arrange gradually downwards the mountain. A ring constructed on the basis of the former road connects all functional zones. It is designed to reduce vehicle speed in the way of following the terrain.

3) Water

The gully in the middle of the site is restored and designed to be falling water, where the main spaces for activities are located nearby. It is not only the natural separation between living zone to the east and studying zone to the west, but also a connector between artificial environment and the natural environment.

4) Perspective

Viewing on the top of the hill towards the Hun River to the south of the campus, it is wide and endless. But viewing from the North Gate on the bottom of the valley, there is thick forest in which buildings are hidden partly.

3. Conclusion

After the construction of the new campus, the environmental benefits are outstanding. The total area of the constructed wetland is 11550m2, with a maximum storage capacity of 33340m3 and a normal storage capacity of 14700m3. The average annual collectible rainwater generated within the site is 49046 m3, of which 18640 m3 of rainwater runoff is collected by the site. The artificial wetland has a runoff reduction capacity of 38%. The purified reclaimed water reaches 54800 m3 and provides habitat for at least 10 species of animals. The social benefits are significant, providing outdoor activity venues for 4000 teachers and students. Among the 102 teachers and students surveyed, the average stay time was less than 30-60 minutes. The artificial wetland can provide an average of 35336 m3 of water per year for campus green space irrigation, equivalent to the water intake of 265.9 households in Shenyang City for one year in 2012. Save 63604.8 yuan in drinking water costs and 21201.6 yuan in sewage treatment fees.