The building is built for Qixing Education, a successful Chinese company that offers summer and winter school programs for children and the youth. Their pedagogy is to take the Chinese children, mostly products of the one-child policy, out to a temporary community of their own, and get close to nature while learning various skills in culture, craft, and socialization.

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Architects: Atelier TeamMinus

Location: Aranya,Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China

Architect In Charge: Li Zhang

Design Team: Li Zhang, Guanglu Dou, Hao Wang, Xue Bai, Zishen Wen, Cong Li, Zihao Pan

Interior Designers: Li Zhang, Guanglu Dou, Zishen Wen, Yingxiu Lu

Area: 4700.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Lei Bu

Owner: Qinhuangdao Tian-Xing-Jiu-Zhou Tourism Development, Ltd.
Owner Representative: Yin Ma

Operator: Idea Camp Development Centre

Operator Representative: Wei Zhao

Contractor: Changli County Constructions & Decorations, Ltd.

Contractor Representative: Yuxiang Liu

Engineering: THUADI

Structure Engineers: Mingzhu Wang, Xiaohong He

Electronic Engineers: Jinsong Huang, Wen Gu

Hvac Engineers: Peng Guo, Laiquan Gao

Landscape: BJF (Beijing) International Landscape Architecture, Ltd. / Atelier TeamMinus

Landscape Designers: Hang Kou,Ran Tao, Guanglu Dou

Lighting: Atelier Zhang Xin

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