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Rural primary school children in China lack the standard education to that of urban primary schools. Having poor conditions, poorly designed spaces and inadequate funding for the necessary education become a hindrance to their learning capacity. In retrospect, these rural schools are a part of the growing urban-rural gap where much of the policy and reform affect the socioeconomic and sociopolitical development in Chinese rural village communities. These constraints are causing rural migrations to the urban centers of China leaving stewardship to its unrelenting doom. Therefore, using design as a method to invigorate learning spaces provides insight into a child’s development and future transitions to adulthood. Integrating indoor and outdoor spaces for rural primary schools emphasizes the idea of stewardship and traditions both on a local and global scale. Accordingly, there is a need to improve and innovate these learning spaces to increase development capacity in rural school children. The immediate objective of this research is to analyze elements in the rural landscape and how they as outdoor elements can be integrated with indoor elements of typical learning spaces i.e. classrooms. Using case studies, this research aims to create a new design typology combing and integrating previous typologies in rural design and kindergarten architecture but it is important to understand the types of spatial relationships between indoor and outdoor. Therefore, thermodynamics and ecology is a major component of this research, using principles to study the flow of energy between indoor and outdoor spaces and living systems, expressed in an architectural manner. One objective is to define the boundary or what the zone between indoor and outdoor spaces is, whether it is thermally quantifiable or ephemeral through a child’s learning experience the transition between the two spaces is vital to rural primary schools. In the future, the creation of a new design typology integrating indoor and outdoor spaces for children of rural China will help empower their stewardship connecting both on local and global levels.