CHS Resource Center

Designed between 2012-2013, this building is constructed between 2014-2017 under tight budget constraint for an independent Chinese high school in Batu Pahat. With a built-up area of approximately 95000 square feet, it consists of a library, a museum, an art gallery, studio spaces, and a café.

It is a 4-storey building made of exposed concrete frame structure, brick, steel, timber, and glass infill. These natural ventilated verandas connect the building to the surrounding greens and act as huge canopies that protect glass façade from the sun. Brick walls are used on east and west façade to reduce direct sunlight while glass façade are mainly north and south facing.

In addition to orientation consideration, sun shading devices of steel and timber provide further protections during certain season of the year. The use of raw materials with different texture aims to give characters to the building and create atmosphere of tactile qualities. 

【 中鏡樓 】 位於batu pahat 華仁中學。從初步設計概念直到竣工總耗時5年，一個打造自由開放式多用途空間，圖書館，展覽館，文史館。建築材料主要為混凝土，磚，鋼，木材和玻璃。

建築設計考量將天然通風，陽光和周圍的植物和建築融為一體，在光線的考慮部份，設計師利用不同面積和方向的玻璃，把陽光引入室內，也計算建築與陽光的朝向，適當的把部份光線阻擋。建築在東西立面上使用磚牆來減少陽光直射，而玻璃立面則主要面向南北。

中鏡樓 打造一個室內外有互相關聯的關係，可以依據想像力去運用整體空間而達到不同的感受效果。設計師利用不同的元素讓室內外得到一定的平衡，整體感覺不會過於冷硬。使用具有不同質地的原材料的目的在於賦予建築特色並營造出觸覺質感的氛圍。

Architecture by Basic Design Workshop

no 1-19b, jalan maju 3, taman maju, 83000 batu pahat, johor, malayisa.

t +6016 441 5236

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Photography by Rayson Lo / yandha goh