Boxes and Yards
Boxes and Yards Primary School by Xiaoyi Ma is a winner of the 2021 Iron A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Boxes and Yards is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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As the first school building in Beijing built in accordance with Passive House Standards, this project showcases the public school in China designed for Learning Anywhere Anytime, which breaks through the finger plan and cell plus bell classroom layout in a traditional school. The designers think out of the box regarding the space planning and building imagery of schools, and turn this school with a history of a hundred years into a School of 21st Century.
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Boxes and Yards by Xiaoyi Ma
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Primary School
Accolades
Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2021.
Iron Winner
Boxes and Yards Primary School
Boxes and Yards is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Boxes and Yards is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Boxes and Yards is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Xiaoyi Ma
Xiaoyi Ma is the founder and chief designer of Inclusive Architectural Practice (IAP), a graduate of Tsinghua University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a licensed architect in U.S. and a member of American Institute of Architects (AIA). Before founding IAP, Ms. Ma served as Partner and Managing Principle of KlingStubbins, a renowned architectural design company in U.S. (later as Jacobs). The design she led and participated in has been awarded by American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). As a designer and a mother of two children, Ms. Ma is dedicated in advocating learner-centered philosophy and strives to explore effective architectural solutions to create cutting-edge, adaptable, and versatile learning spaces for international schools and public schools, making transformation to future in educational and work spaces. IAP has become one of the pioneer design firms in education architecture.
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Inclusive Architectural Practice
Inclusive Architectural Practice is a pioneer global architectural design firm focused on K12 design innovation. Established in 2014, with designers from China, U.S. and Europe, IAP provides integrated design in architecture, interiors, landscape, and graphics for education, cultural, research and commercial facilities. At IAP we have faith that Inclusion Inspires Innovation. Through continuous dialogues with project stakeholders, IAP strives to design to environmental, social, and economic standards – the triple bottom line, bringing cutting-edge concepts, artistic experience, and humanity values to each project. For education projects, we believe that every student is unique and the best way of learning is different to each. The inclusive learning communities design by IAP are highly versatile and adaptable in scale, shape, materials, colors, connectivity, methods of exhibition, levels of comfort and other aspects related to learning and teaching environment, aiming to provide each learner with the most comfortable way to get himself/herself emerged in and focused on learning.
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