With the development of urbanization, the optimization of stock urban space has become one of the hot issues to be explored at present. The space in front of the school, as a kind of stock space, is both a hub connecting campus space and urban environment, and a container where campus culture and social culture are mixed, therefore, the demand for regional functional compounding keeps arising. A student's architectural thinking partly comes from understanding, and the rest comes from perception, experience and imagination, the decades of development of the Buza teaching system has perfected "understanding", but experience is far from enough. Therefore, the architectural design teaching group of Hebei University of Engineering, in its fourth‐year undergraduate architectural design teaching practice, explores the method of integrating and activating the space in front of the university from the trilogy of human perception, experience and imagination, stimulates students' perception and imagination, provides creative solutions to urban space contradictions, and searches for a design method and way of thinking that is both open and coherent logic.