Located in the beautiful Yangmingshan and adjacent to the famous Taipei Hwa Kang Arts School, the redevelopment of Taipei European School’s senior high school sits on a site totalling 16,030 square metres. The design takes local climatic conditions into account and draws inspiration from Chinese traditional book cases by creating a series of ‘shells’ on elevation, symbolising the school’s ‘books’ are collected in the cultural ‘book cases’. Spatial design imitates the local ‘alleys’ to construct the public interactive spaces in the school. Landscaped courtyards are designed with reference to the traditional gardens to provide a natural, vivid and unique learning environment.