幼儿园建筑是住宅开发过程中必要的配套设施。在住宅货值最大化原则的驱动下，大部分幼儿园无法脱离被住宅挤压和被规范限制的双重困境，最终以妥协和消极的空间状态呈现。在上海一个典型别墅区环绕的不规则用地内，曼景建筑试图通过设计的策略突破周边环境和建筑规范的双重限制，为孩子们营造一个城市中的理想空间。幼儿园俯瞰形似“∞”，被称为∞幼儿园。

Kindergarten is a necessary supporting facility in the process of housing development. Driven by the principle of maximizing the value of housing, most of the kindergartens can’t be separated from the double predicament of being squeezed by housing and restricted by the building norms; they’re finally presented in the compromising and negative spatial state. In an irregular land encircled by a typical villa area in Shanghai, Office Mass tries to break through the dual restriction of surrounding environment and norms through design strategies to create an ideal space in the city for children. The kindergarten looks like “∞” from aerial view, so it’s called ∞ kindergarten.

别墅区环绕的∞幼儿园，∞Kindergarten surrounded by villa area ©曼景建筑

盆景 –异质介入 |Bonsai –heterogeneous intervention

在设计的最初阶段，建筑师面临的问题是如何用积极的态度去回应这块消极的场地——不规则地形带来的用地效率的降低、与别墅区过分接近带来的独立性的缺失。在无法对外部条件进行干预的前提下，最积极的态度也许就是再造一个理想之地，如同一个盆景，它分明是微观和局部的，但是它包含了我们对这个世界的期许和想象。放弃过多的与周边环境呼应、而以一种异质化的状态介入，以不规则的场地为“盆”，在不规则的场地上造“景”。

At the initial stage of design, the architect faced the problem of how to respond to this passive site with a positive attitude——the decrease in land use efficiency caused by irregular terrain and the lack of independence brought by being too close to villa area. In the absence of interference with external conditions, the most positive attitude may be to recreate an ideal place, like a bonsai, which is clearly microscopic and partial, but it contains our expectation and imagination for the world. To give up too much echoing with the surrounding environment and intervene in a heterogeneous state, take the irregular site as the “pot” to create “landscape” on the irregular site.

都市盆景，urban bonsai © 苏圣亮

积木 –聚散为整 |Building blocks –gather the scattered into a whole

作为城市尺度的盆景，它是应该是一个理想化的空间存在，最重要的是要包含“日常”之外的“非常”。与普通集中式幼儿园不同，建筑师将这个接近6000平米的建筑分解成了房子、廊子和院子。这些空间组件犹如积木，以一种松散的秩序搭接起来一个“∞”。

As a bonsai of urban scale, it should be an idealized space, and the most important thing is to include “unusual” beyond “daily”. Unlike ordinary centralized kindergartens, architect decomposed the building which is nearly 6000 square meters into houses, corridors and courtyards. These spatial components, just like building blocks, form one “∞” through stacking in a loose order.

▼单元空间和剩余不规则空间形成一个“∞”，unit space andleftover irregular space togetherform one “∞”© 苏圣亮

聚落式布局的矩形单元——房子，容纳了儿童的分班教室。房子的单元采用的对角坡屋顶的形式将一、二层的两个班级统一成一个体量，这种坡屋顶的形态也可以用一种更为轻松的方式与周边的别墅区的屋顶形式取得形式上的呼应。体量上错落的方形窗洞，共有三个尺寸，包含了与儿童的身体尺度匹配的两个尺寸的低窗，用于空气对流和卫生间通风采光的小高窗。窗框采用柠檬绿色的彩色铝合金，配合窗洞周边墙体上的同色涂料，在灰色的基底上画满了跳跃的景框。

Houses——rectangular units with cluster layout, are classrooms.

The house unit with diagonal sloping roof unifies the two classes at the first and second floor into one mass, this kind of sloping roof can also echo with the surrounding villa roof in a more relaxed manner.

The staggered square window openings, designed in three sizes, contain two low windows that match the children’s size, and small high window used for air convection and bathroom ventilation and lighting.

The window frame is made of lemon green coloured aluminum alloy, matching with the same color coating on the wall around these window openings, jumping scene frame is painted on the gray background.

▼布满环形路径的活动场地，playground full of circle paths © 苏圣亮