Lansheng Fudan Middle School Guohe Road Branch is located at No. 128. The site, with an area of 6,820 square meters, borders Guohe Road on the north, with its east, west and south sides surrounded by semi-public roads inside the Guohe Yicun Community.

While maintaining the original spatial structure, the formal strategy of the renovation is to take down the old gymnasium and add new volumes to shape a simpler geometric layout, so as to create a more private teaching environment within the neighbourhood. New programmes including a series of diverse, flexible teaching spaces and open activity spaces are brought into the teaching building to create a more coherent education space for the new pedagogy model.

Red brick slips are generally used on the façades, interspersed with white aluminium panels and stone cladding, creating a style in which history meets modernity. In representation of the school’s inclusiveness and vitality, linear, rhythmic and orderly vertical elements are used in the cladding and window openings in relation to the programmes within the building envelope.