ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
I
Illuminating pedagogy
n southeast China, an upcoming new college heralds the development of significant cultural and trade links between Taiwan and the Chinese province of Fujian. Particularly intriguing — and proving how politics can give way when the promise of a better future is on the table — is the fact that Fujian previously hosted China’s primary coastal defence system against Taiwan, now dismantled to make way for new bilaterallyfunded projects in the region. The new 550,000 sq-m Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College in southeast China is being wholly funded by Ching Fu, one of Taiwan’s largest privatelyowned companies, with over 40 years of modern shipbuilding experience. Commissioned as lead masterplanner for this 12,000-person campus, along with architectural commissions for Phase 1 and 2 building designs, is Hong Kong-based practice 10 Design. As Ted Givens, design partner of 10 and lead designer of the project, explains, “The core concept is to interweave a very largescale college into a natural setting, preserving and enhancing the site’s existing character. We seek to design the most non-invasive set of structures possible, balanced against the creation of a very efficient college.” It was 10’s previous experience in the Taiwan-China cross-strait region which played a significant part in Ching Fu’s decision on the contract award — 10 previously designed the 93ha masterplan for the central business district mixed-use development in Pingtan (also in Fujian), which is the governments’ flagship development to spur trade and political communications between Taiwan and China. “Fujian has recently been expanded to become a global leader in the production and design of LED technology,” says John Chen, son of the Ching Fu chairman. “Ching Fu’s Photonic College will be one of the first initiatives of the city’s masterplan, providing a supply of trained workers for the province.”
Text: Suzanne Miao Photography: Courtesy of 10 Design
In Fujian, Taiwan and China are collaborating to develop one of the most advanced photonic colleges in the cross-strait region 56 | perspective
Top Design elements such as this green roof will provide a sustainable learning and living environment Facing page from top Centred around a 3.85km-long lake, Meixi Lake will be home to 180,000 inhabitants • The site features — such as the natural waterways — informed the campus planning strategy
The first 3,000 students enrolled in the Photonic College will start their courses in September this year, and by 2017, it is anticipated that the total number of students will grow to 12,000. For the Photonic College project, 10 is also responsible for the architectural design of five of the nine buildings in the first phase, and the landscape design in the same phase. Most of the structures for these nine buildings are under construction. In addition, 10 will design buildings in phases two and three — the project involves a fast-track programme with complex overlapping construction schedules. The goal is to put nature and the creation of a balanced sustainable future first and the project involves changing the mentality behind the design of college or university campuses, and how the various programmes and departments are run. The design of the Photonic College will provide a sustainable learning and living environment for the students who enrol in the college and villagers who live at the edges of the college respectively. The province will also benefit by the project, becoming a demonstration of how to work with and preserve a natural setting. perspective | 57
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
I
Illuminating pedagogy
n southeast China, an upcoming new college heralds the development of significant cultural and trade links between Taiwan and the Chinese province of Fujian. Particularly intriguing — and proving how politics can give way when the promise of a better future is on the table — is the fact that Fujian previously hosted China’s primary coastal defence system against Taiwan, now dismantled to make way for new bilaterallyfunded projects in the region. The new 550,000 sq-m Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College in southeast China is being wholly funded by Ching Fu, one of Taiwan’s largest privatelyowned companies, with over 40 years of modern shipbuilding experience. Commissioned as lead masterplanner for this 12,000-person campus, along with architectural commissions for Phase 1 and 2 building designs, is Hong Kong-based practice 10 Design. As Ted Givens, design partner of 10 and lead designer of the project, explains, “The core concept is to interweave a very largescale college into a natural setting, preserving and enhancing the site’s existing character. We seek to design the most non-invasive set of structures possible, balanced against the creation of a very efficient college.” It was 10’s previous experience in the Taiwan-China cross-strait region which played a significant part in Ching Fu’s decision on the contract award — 10 previously designed the 93ha masterplan for the central business district mixed-use development in Pingtan (also in Fujian), which is the governments’ flagship development to spur trade and political communications between Taiwan and China. “Fujian has recently been expanded to become a global leader in the production and design of LED technology,” says John Chen, son of the Ching Fu chairman. “Ching Fu’s Photonic College will be one of the first initiatives of the city’s masterplan, providing a supply of trained workers for the province.”
Text: Suzanne Miao Photography: Courtesy of 10 Design
In Fujian, Taiwan and China are collaborating to develop one of the most advanced photonic colleges in the cross-strait region 56 | perspective
Top Design elements such as this green roof will provide a sustainable learning and living environment Facing page from top Centred around a 3.85km-long lake, Meixi Lake will be home to 180,000 inhabitants • The site features — such as the natural waterways — informed the campus planning strategy
The first 3,000 students enrolled in the Photonic College will start their courses in September this year, and by 2017, it is anticipated that the total number of students will grow to 12,000. For the Photonic College project, 10 is also responsible for the architectural design of five of the nine buildings in the first phase, and the landscape design in the same phase. Most of the structures for these nine buildings are under construction. In addition, 10 will design buildings in phases two and three — the project involves a fast-track programme with complex overlapping construction schedules. The goal is to put nature and the creation of a balanced sustainable future first and the project involves changing the mentality behind the design of college or university campuses, and how the various programmes and departments are run. The design of the Photonic College will provide a sustainable learning and living environment for the students who enrol in the college and villagers who live at the edges of the college respectively. The province will also benefit by the project, becoming a demonstration of how to work with and preserve a natural setting. perspective | 57
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
10 is currently working on the detail designs for the algae air purification system on the main academic building, which will pump exhaust fumes from the underground parking up into a series of algae-filled tubes on the façade. Photocatalytic coatings for the façades will be applied, and calculations are underway for the amount of UV light needed to keep the air-cleaning reaction happening at night as well, using a series of PV cells to power the UV lights. The design is groundbreaking because it generates a radial campus-planning diagram around the intersection of three small existing streams. Instead of imposing a geometric order, 10 worked with the site features and let them inform the campus planning strategy — the streams would have normally been piped and covered to maximise ease of construction and planning flexibility. “The masterplan is built upon a backbone of passive solar principles that are supplemented and enhanced by a series of highly innovative sustainable technologies including the use of photocatalytic nanocoatings, algae for air purification and for the production of organic fertiliser, thermal cooling systems, green walls, hydro power, and solar power,” says Givens. “The Photonic College will become testbeds for the development of new products and systems.”
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
照耀未來
撰文：Suzanne
攝影：由 10
Design 提供
現時海峽兩岸正攜手合作，計劃於福建興建 區內最先進的光電技術學院
正
在籌備興建的新書院位處福建省，料將帶動
在這九座建築中，大部分於現時已在施工。另一方
台灣與中國東南部之間的文化和商業交流。耐人尋味
面，10 Design 亦會設計項目第二和第三期的建築，以
的是，福建此前還是中國大陸防範台灣的軍事要塞；
符合項目的緊密的施工日程和快速的進度。
然而，現時區內的對台防御系統已經拆除，以騰出空
整座學院的設計均以自然為本，首要是為學生創
間予兩岸共同注資的多個新項目，倒證實了「世事如
造出可持續而均衡的未來校園。此外，項目亦體現了
棋局局新」的道理。
學院或大學校園設計背後的意念轉變，並對學院院系
全新的福建光電職業技術學院佔地 55 萬平方米，
如何運作等問題予以反思。因此，光電學院的設計將
由擁有超過40年歷史、規模於台灣數一數二的私營造
為在學學生和學院鄰近的村民，分別提供永續的學習
船企業慶富全資興建。香港建築事務所10 Design則會
和生活環境。福建省亦將藉此成為保育自然環境的典
出任項目的總藍圖規劃師，設計可容納 1 萬 2000 人的
範，享受與自然和諧共處的益處。
校園之餘，同時負責項目第一和第二期的建築設計。
學院的學術主樓將設嶄新的「海藻空氣淨化系
10 Design 設計合夥人兼項目首席設計師 Ted
統」，能抽出地下停車場的廢氣，並引入建築幕牆上
Givens 表示：「項目的核心概念是把規模龐大的學院
注滿海藻的管道內淨化。10 Design 現正研究系統的
融入四周的天然環境，以保存和突出當地已有的特
設計細節，包括研究於幕牆上使用的光催化塗層、計
色。我們希望設計出絲毫不覺突兀的建築之餘，同時
算夜間維持空氣淨化反應所需的紫外光量，以及為紫
亦可創造出一座效益出眾的學院。」
外光燈配搭可靠的太陽能電池。
10 Design 從事海峽兩岸項目的經驗是慶富決定
整個校園的設計均以當地三條溪流的匯聚之處為
對其批出合約的關鍵。在此之前，10 Design 亦曾為
中心，並由此向四方八面伸延，在當地是前所未有
福建平潭規劃出佔地 93 公頃的綜合中央商務區藍圖，
的。10 Design 同時摒棄了一般設計所用的幾何次
成為政府促進兩岸商業和政治交流的旗艦項目。
序，反而因地制宜規劃校園設施。另一方面，10
慶富董事長之子 John Chen 說：「福建正不斷擴 展為世界 LED 技術和產品設計的領袖。慶富的光電學 院將是城市藍圖中的首批項目之一，將向省內輸送訓 練有素的技術人才。」
From top The college is one of the first initiatives of the city’s masterplan • The design generates a radial campus-planning diagram around the intersection of three small existing streams
Miao
Design 亦把校園範圍內的溪流改為暗渠，令項目規 劃和施工更為靈活。 Ted 說：「藍圖的設計建於配合當地日照的基礎 之上，輔以一系列創新非常的可持續科技，例如應用
在光電技術學院入學的首3000位學生將於本年九
光催化納米塗層、以海藻淨化空氣和製造有機肥料、
月開學，預料在2017年，學生總數將增至1萬2000人。
熱感應冷卻系統、綠化牆身、水力和太陽能發電等。
光電學院的第一期將有九座建築，而10 Design將
新的光電學院將成為研發新產品和系統的試
會負責當中五座的建築設計，以及同一期的園景設計。
驗場。」
•
The façades will feature photocatalytic coatings
58 | perspective
perspective perspective| |188 57
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
10 is currently working on the detail designs for the algae air purification system on the main academic building, which will pump exhaust fumes from the underground parking up into a series of algae-filled tubes on the façade. Photocatalytic coatings for the façades will be applied, and calculations are underway for the amount of UV light needed to keep the air-cleaning reaction happening at night as well, using a series of PV cells to power the UV lights. The design is groundbreaking because it generates a radial campus-planning diagram around the intersection of three small existing streams. Instead of imposing a geometric order, 10 worked with the site features and let them inform the campus planning strategy — the streams would have normally been piped and covered to maximise ease of construction and planning flexibility. “The masterplan is built upon a backbone of passive solar principles that are supplemented and enhanced by a series of highly innovative sustainable technologies including the use of photocatalytic nanocoatings, algae for air purification and for the production of organic fertiliser, thermal cooling systems, green walls, hydro power, and solar power,” says Givens. “The Photonic College will become testbeds for the development of new products and systems.”
ARCHITECTURE Fujian Professional Photonic Technical College • Xiamen, China
照耀未來
撰文：Suzanne
攝影：由 10
Design 提供
現時海峽兩岸正攜手合作，計劃於福建興建 區內最先進的光電技術學院
正
在籌備興建的新書院位處福建省，料將帶動
在這九座建築中，大部分於現時已在施工。另一方
台灣與中國東南部之間的文化和商業交流。耐人尋味
面，10 Design 亦會設計項目第二和第三期的建築，以
的是，福建此前還是中國大陸防範台灣的軍事要塞；
符合項目的緊密的施工日程和快速的進度。
然而，現時區內的對台防御系統已經拆除，以騰出空
整座學院的設計均以自然為本，首要是為學生創
間予兩岸共同注資的多個新項目，倒證實了「世事如
造出可持續而均衡的未來校園。此外，項目亦體現了
棋局局新」的道理。
學院或大學校園設計背後的意念轉變，並對學院院系
全新的福建光電職業技術學院佔地 55 萬平方米，
如何運作等問題予以反思。因此，光電學院的設計將
由擁有超過40年歷史、規模於台灣數一數二的私營造
為在學學生和學院鄰近的村民，分別提供永續的學習
船企業慶富全資興建。香港建築事務所10 Design則會
和生活環境。福建省亦將藉此成為保育自然環境的典
出任項目的總藍圖規劃師，設計可容納 1 萬 2000 人的
範，享受與自然和諧共處的益處。
校園之餘，同時負責項目第一和第二期的建築設計。
學院的學術主樓將設嶄新的「海藻空氣淨化系
10 Design 設計合夥人兼項目首席設計師 Ted
統」，能抽出地下停車場的廢氣，並引入建築幕牆上
Givens 表示：「項目的核心概念是把規模龐大的學院
注滿海藻的管道內淨化。10 Design 現正研究系統的
融入四周的天然環境，以保存和突出當地已有的特
設計細節，包括研究於幕牆上使用的光催化塗層、計
色。我們希望設計出絲毫不覺突兀的建築之餘，同時
算夜間維持空氣淨化反應所需的紫外光量，以及為紫
亦可創造出一座效益出眾的學院。」
外光燈配搭可靠的太陽能電池。
10 Design 從事海峽兩岸項目的經驗是慶富決定
整個校園的設計均以當地三條溪流的匯聚之處為
對其批出合約的關鍵。在此之前，10 Design 亦曾為
中心，並由此向四方八面伸延，在當地是前所未有
福建平潭規劃出佔地 93 公頃的綜合中央商務區藍圖，
的。10 Design 同時摒棄了一般設計所用的幾何次
成為政府促進兩岸商業和政治交流的旗艦項目。
序，反而因地制宜規劃校園設施。另一方面，10
慶富董事長之子 John Chen 說：「福建正不斷擴 展為世界 LED 技術和產品設計的領袖。慶富的光電學 院將是城市藍圖中的首批項目之一，將向省內輸送訓 練有素的技術人才。」
From top The college is one of the first initiatives of the city’s masterplan • The design generates a radial campus-planning diagram around the intersection of three small existing streams
Miao
Design 亦把校園範圍內的溪流改為暗渠，令項目規 劃和施工更為靈活。 Ted 說：「藍圖的設計建於配合當地日照的基礎 之上，輔以一系列創新非常的可持續科技，例如應用
在光電技術學院入學的首3000位學生將於本年九
光催化納米塗層、以海藻淨化空氣和製造有機肥料、
月開學，預料在2017年，學生總數將增至1萬2000人。
熱感應冷卻系統、綠化牆身、水力和太陽能發電等。
光電學院的第一期將有九座建築，而10 Design將
新的光電學院將成為研發新產品和系統的試
會負責當中五座的建築設計，以及同一期的園景設計。
驗場。」
•
The façades will feature photocatalytic coatings
58 | perspective
perspective perspective| |188 57