抵抗是有可能的。

讓我們共同為孩子打造一片森林，自然將是我們最好的老師……

在新竹市東區的重劃區，關埔國小被周邊大樓環繞，但東側也有老社區及冷水坑溪做鄰居。教室單元稍微切碎為熟悉的樹冠尺寸。刻意避免可辨識的形式，均勻組合成水平的大森林，抵抗被大樓圍繞認為是必然的無奈。

選擇恢復重劃前的自然丘陵地形，讓教室隨著地形自由起伏，甚至二樓也可以擁有地面層的遼闊感。

跳脫框架是為了回歸本質

新世代的學校，喜歡向自然學習，教室單元自然地鬆開，有如樹林的生態聚落。關埔國小的學習空間就像森林一樣，有疏有密。疏密之間，微風可以連續的流動，學習如同呼吸一般，自然地發生在每個角落。

關係的流動

鬆開的教室間有寬敞、微微起伏的走廊，屋簷大膽向外延伸，有水平綿延的空間感；以大尺度的梯間、挑空打破樓層間的隔閡，強化視覺、聽覺、人群上下左右的流動，關埔國小是可以自由跑上跑下、時時充滿歡樂的生活社區，包括家長、老師和社區居民，都在這裡重新思考，經歷深刻的自由。

空間留白

透過教室裡的空，有明有暗，細細感受彼此。

透過教室間的空，讓孩子們自由發揮，創造遊戲基地。

透過大量如陰影般黑色牆面的空，讓孩子們擺脫物質，享受抽象與包容。

透過對都市不分彼此的放空，豐富校園邊界的交流、期待對社區有所貢獻。

與自然相遇

新竹氣候以風聞名。略帶包圍感的校園，加上阻擋車聲且運用伯努利定律的通風塔打散量體，讓風變得舒服，讓孩子能聽見風的叮嚀，在風吹拂下玩耍、成長。在高密度發展的城市裡，未來的關埔國小，仍有著大片的樹林、泥土、草地與平衡舒展開的建築群落，分不清是室內還是戶外。蟲鳴鳥啼，隨時可以與自然相遇。

Resistance is possible

Foster a forest for our children, and nature will be the best teacher.

Guan Pu Primary School is located in eastern Hsinchu City, a district with plans for rezoning. It is surrounded by both high-rise buildings and old communities, and neighbors the Leng Shui Keng River. Classroom units are divided into sizes recalling the scales of surrounding large trees. Deliberately avoiding identifiable forms, it is evenly distributed resembling a large horizontal forest. The perception of resistance to the surrounding buildings was unavoidable. We hope to reconstruct the landscape prior to redistricting so that the classrooms may freely rise and fall with it, and that the second floor may have the same vast space as the ground floor.

Getting rid of limitations is to reimagine

The new generation of schools should learn from nature. They should allow classrooms to loosen and become free like the ecology in the woods. Classrooms of Guan Pu, like trees in a forest, are distanced enough that the wind may flow between them. The space will become more continuous because wind and sound is involved. Learning in Guan Pu is like breathing occurring everywhere.

Flow of relations

Spacious, slightly undulating corridors run between loose classrooms, where children enjoy playing. Thin and light eaves stretch outwards, creating flat and long horizontally extending spaces. Breaking the barriers between floors, strong vertical relationships are produced of sight, sound and flow of people. Guan Pu Primary School is a playground in which there is freedom to run up and down, fostering a community always full of joy even for parents, teachers and community residents. It is here that they may reflect on their thoughts and experience their profound freedom.

Blank space

Through the empty classrooms, let us see each other.

Through the spaces between the classrooms, let the children play creatively.

Through the vast, shadowy expanse of the black wall, let the children abandon their material and enjoy abstraction and tolerance.

Through the cities that know each other, let us enrich the communication between campus boundaries and look forward to contributing to the community.

Live in nature

Hsinchu is famous for its strong winds, and we designed an enveloped shape to slightly resist it. Furthermore, by making use of Bernoulli's principle, a ventilation tower is added to block the sound of cars. The classrooms are scattered enough that the wind may still blow in for the children to hear and allowing them to play in the wind. In a high-density developing city, the future Guan Pu Primary School will have a large area of trees and grassland, without distinction between the indoors and outdoors, becoming the most comfortable urban forest in the Guan Pu area.