BIBA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RENOVATION
BEIJING INNOVATION LEADERSHIP
ACADEMY MULTI-FUNCTIONAL HALL
The design of the Multi-Functional Hall at Beijing Innovation Leadership Academy establishes a highly adaptable environment that integrates teaching, performance, and community gathering within a single spatial framework. Serving as a key public node on campus, the hall functions both as an educational laboratory and a social “salon” that bridges the academic and communal life of the school.
The conceptual foundation of the design draws from the school’s emblematic straw hat, a symbol deeply embedded in Leadership’s educational philosophy of inclusiveness and heritage. The hat’s woven texture is reinterpreted into the spatial and material language—expressed through layered lattice screens and textured wall panels that modulate light and shadow. The combination of light wood tones and deep blue upholstery extends the school’s visual identity into the interior palette, creating an environment that merges rationality with warmth, discipline with emotion.
LOCATION Beijing, China
AREA 673 m²
STATUS Completed
CLIENT Beijing Innovation Leadershio Academy
YEAR 2025
PROGRAMS Educational, Theater, Interior Design, Renovation
Functionality and flexibility form the operational core of the space. The hall can seamlessly transform between theater, concert, and lecture configurations, supporting diverse programs such as drama, dance, vocal performance, debate, and conferences. A system of retractable seating and a hydraulic stage enables efficient spatial conversion, allowing rapid responses to evolving pedagogical and event-based needs. Acoustic design follows professional theater standards, employing adjustable absorption and diffusion panels to balance speech clarity and musical resonance. The lighting, audiovisual, and control systems are modular and zoned, ensuring smooth transitions between educational use and professional performance modes.
Spatial articulation emphasizes visibility, participation, and interaction. Transparent partitions on the mezzanine and open interfaces connect the hall to adjacent public zones, allowing activities inside to be visually shared with the wider campus. Dual control consoles—both at front and rear—enable students to operate lighting, sound, and video systems firsthand, transforming the hall into a hands-on learning platform. In this sense, the space transcends its functional definition as a performance venue and becomes an experiential classroom where learning is inseparable from practice.
Through the integration of advanced acoustic performance, flexible stage systems, and a refined architectural vocabulary, the design achieves equilibrium between technology and atmosphere. Rooted in the symbolic language of the straw hat, it unites the school’s pedagogical ethos with a contemporary spatial expression—an environment where tradition, adaptability, and the spirit of learning interweave as harmoniously as the hat’s own woven form.
CHIEF DESIGNER
Xiaoyi Ma
DESIGN TEAM
Jing Zhu, Jiajia Wang, Pengfei Chen