Hsinchu Municipal Sunshine Elementary School｜Let's play with building blocks

“ We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.”

—— Churchill

Fixed Elements × Mobile Furniture: A Spatial System Supporting Both Dynamic and Static Activities

The renovation site is located at a key circulation node on campus, where various activities—both dynamic and static—take place. The design strategy begins by defining an unchangeable base condition for the space, complemented by a series of mobile furniture objects. Through the flexible separation, recombination, and transformation of these two categories, the space can shift among multiple functional modes, enabling users to assemble the layouts they need for different scenarios.

Geometric Aesthetics × Boolean Logic: Expanding Children’s Imagination and Multiplying Spatial Possibilities

With the constant repositioning and reconfiguration of mobile elements, maintaining visual coherence in the space becomes a secondary but essential consideration. The entire space is therefore developed through a unified mathematical logic. Each furniture unit is designed based on a 60 × 60 cm module, and the mobile pieces adopt Boolean operations—subtracting, stacking, or aggregating according to the factors or multiples of 60—to generate various volumetric forms. This allows children to explore geometric aesthetics that appear diverse yet are grounded in mathematical relationships. By stacking and manipulating these volumes, students gain a heightened awareness of body scale and spatial composition. The consistent dimensional logic also ensures that all pieces can be easily combined in actual use.