The Garden School is a New Green-Roofed Learning Facility for China

<a href="http://www.openarch.com/">Open Architecture</a> believes that if our youth are going to be equipped to deal with the environmental challenges ahead, the wisdom of the ancients needs to be restored to their education. Children need to learn how to respect, balance and protect nature, all of which begins with a healthy and green learning environment. To this end, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof">green-roofed</a> Garden School in Beijing is comprised of various conventional classrooms and laboratories organized in an organic tree shape that in turn envelops plenty of outdoor green space, blurring the boundaries between indoors and outdoors.

Open Architecture believes it is essential to incorporate ancient philosophy back into contemporary education

Garden School in Beijing has been designed to blur the boundary between inside and outside

Providing a mixture of orthodox and outdoor learning spaces, the school promotes balance and harmony among students

The classes and laboratories are designed in a tree-shape that envelopes plenty of outdoor space

Orientation provides passive solar design, daylighting and natural ventilation

Nature is present all over the campus to encourage students to learn about it, protect it, and to find balance