The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) Campus Planning, Campus Plaza, Library and Student Centre 香港中文大学（深圳）校园规划、中庭广场、图书馆及学生活动中心

The Campus Planning for the CUHK(SZ) brings together the architectural typology of courtyards with the landscape terrain and the mountain form, creating a central green mall allowing nature to become the dominating sublime. Replacing the formality of classical symmetry in Jefferson’s campus prototype, the design articulates academic programs into one mega-block with a sequence of courtyard spaces, parallel to the central green while lining up against the city edge away from the mountain green. Allowing the water and nature to flow into the green mall through the valley, the design also arranged a series of separate pavilion buildings along the foothill across the central green: library, student center, administration, dormitory, and conference hall, creating visual and ecological corridors spacing in-between the pavilions. The planning takes the natural terrain as the overall composition in contrast to the academic mega-form, incorporating the natural valley and water to integrate with the campus infrastructure system for rainwater collection and recycling. The square quadrant with a sunken plaza in the middle of the central green not only connects the library and student center to the academic spine but also moderates the campus contour and coordinates with different datum levels. By leaving nature alone and giving way to the mountain and landscape, the mega-form as a continuous aggregation contrasting to the independent pavilions array along the landscape becomes even stronger as a form in the planning diagram. The library’s center is a hall with multi-story high bookshelves and a skylight. This space extends all the way to the bottom of the building, which is the reading room. The outdoor spaces of the library are yards, corridors, and platforms that fit the indoor hall and rooms, creating a framed view for both the interior and exterior. The student center of CUHK(SZ) inherits the vertical courtyard and horizontal corridor from traditional Lingnan architecture in Southern China. Ascending courtyards and platforms bring students from the campus’s ground level to the semi-open courtyards and landscape of the back hill above and beyond. Facing the central plaza and leaning back on the slope of the hill, the student center is connected to the library at the north and the teaching buildings at the east. The interior space of the student center aims at vision guiding towards the green space of the campus and the hill.

香港中文大学深圳校园规划，以【山／林／院】三个平行的线性空间展开：图书馆、学生中心、书院，沿着校园西侧山脚序列展开；东侧教学楼沿校园边界布置；中央80米宽的连续绿地、广场、水体和林木形成校园绿轴。 中庭广场在校园的几何中央，介于图书馆、学生中心与对面教学楼之间，形成一个方形回廊的绿地广场。作为校园中心最重要的复合式建筑，中庭广场整合了南北向和东西向地形高差，利用缓坡和大台阶联结周边建筑与地面层绿地，更衔接不同建筑层次的不同入口，表现典型复合多层的城市空间特色。中庭广场本身是没有造型的虚空间，也是最活跃的功能体。在联系不同功能的同时，更保持了校园空间南北向大绿地的基本个性。 图书馆将六层高大面积楼板的功能量体，分开成两个交错的C字形三层长条量体，经由转折和架空叠加，配合校园的入口朝向与绿地轴线，保留由中央绿地到山体的视线穿透性，维系校园自然坡地的完整性。学生中心延续了传统岭南四合院的空间特性，将垂直天井与水平穿廊的空间形式，转化为多层交错穿透的院落空间。建筑面对校园绿地的方院中庭广场，背靠坡地的绿色山体，对外以长廊连接北侧的图书馆和东侧的教学楼，对内强化由校园绿地连接山体的视觉引导。