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China's landscape and cities have undergone tremendous transformation in the last few decades. However, the Beigou Village, which is located in the Huairou District and just on the outskirts of Beijing, maintains its traditional historical appearance.
The village’s remote location and barren soil has kept this unique site mostly undiscovered by the outside world. However, in 2005 the secretary of the new village committee of Beigou Village took office and saw great potential. He witnessed the depression and barrenness of Beigou Village and became determined to lead the villagers to build Beigou Village into a garden-like new countryside. Immediately in 2007 and 2015, two "Environmental Revolutions" were launched in order to realize the dream of the garden countryside.
The first step in this transformation was to change the way the villagers felt about the Beigou village. This is, to create a sense of place in the mind of the community. For many the city and the village represented two very different and opposing conditions. The city meant progress and future while the village was a vestige of a rural past. It was important to change that idea by establishing a new perception of the village rooted in cultural life and its unique sense of place. A new perspective of the village, where the psychological inequality between the city and the countryside are eliminated. Instead, a new mutual and respectful relation that seeks active growth and integration.
In 2007, when the first environmental interventions began, the residents began to feel different about their village. The effect was not immediate, but it was the beginning of shift in perception. The success of these initial steps also began to attract outside eyes, initially perceived as rural revitalization, these small changes were the beginning or something much larger to come.
Gaining momentum, in 2008 the abandoned glazed tile factory was transformed into a hotel by an American couple. The new hotel and their owners had a vision of community development and cooperation. Their attitude and vision began to spread and grow, creating its own form of cultural revolution.
In 2009, the 2049 Group came to Beigou Village and began to support and transform the village bit by bit. Working closely with the community, the 2049 Group began to integrate the villagers’ houses, customs and traditional trades into their development projects. At this stage, the second set of environmental interventions gradually began. llLab. was fortunate to join this initiative by participating in it and began a new set of comprehensive design interventions. First, the Beigala Nostalgic Station was transformed from a rural farmer’s house kitchen into an old Beijing shabu-shabu, also referred to as a rural living room. At the same time, the former gas station site was redesigned as a village-in-village community. Both projects integrated local typologies, materials and traditional construction methods with a respectfully modern architectural language. Subsequently, the original tile factory hotel was also renovated. This project was particularly important as it was a key component of the traditions and culture of the Beigou Village and a critical participant in the process of rural development and reform. The project celebrates the tradition of glazed tile making as a cultural component of the villages at the foot of the Great Wall.
The shift from outlier to cultural center has not only affected Beigou but it has also started a new revolution in the neighboring villages in the north. Over the last ten years, each village has gradually started to pioneer initiatives that celebrates their own unique cultural identity and social character.

The most recent project in Beigou, WAAAM (originally named the Glazed-Tile Art.Architecture Museum), is a testament to the broad and meaningful impact that rural revitalization has brought to the community. The museum is designed to commemorate the pioneering attitude of Beigou. A daring community that challenged itself with reinventing the concept of the rural village through environmental development, art installations and architectural interventions.

The concept of the WAAAM museum is based on the history of the site, the villagers’ daily lives and the integration of traditional craft. The building negotiates the duality of the new dynamic sense of place in the village with the different eras, ideologies and cultural generations that have claimed this village as their own before. The museum takes a critical approach to local materials by positioning them in a new light, expressing their features in a more artistic and contemporary sensibility. Similarly, the exhibition spaces of the WAAAM mark the radical collision of cultural eras. The space is designed to act as a platform for communication between the permanence of Beigou and the ever-changing avant-garde consciousness of their people. The building records the context of the past, the ambitions of the presents while embracing the uncharted territory of the future.

The building is structured around three thematic interior spaces, titled: "Beigou Memory", "Beigou Now", and "Beigou Future".
"Beigou Now", located near the entrance, welcomes visitors into the museum and includes functional areas such as a cafe, a community activity room, and outdoor rest areas.
"Beigou Memory" is located at the base of the original historic building and encompasses the main exhibition spaces. This includes the history of Beigou exhibition, a display showcasing the historical records of the original building, and an exhibition on Beigou’s architectural culture. This building also houses the multifunctional hall on the second floor, which can be used as academic lecture hall, temporary exhibition hall, or meeting hall.
"Beigou Future" tower hosts an exhibition space within its main staircase, a building services space on the first floor, and a terrace overlooking the Great Wall on the top floor.

Beigou Village is now a model to rural China through its pioneering approach to rural development. Combining environmental, cultural and architectural development as drivers for urban revitalization and social transformation.

中国的大环境在改革开放二十几年以来产生了巨大的变化，然而，在北京市郊怀柔区的北沟村却依然保持着一幅旧模样。
北沟，顾名思义，是北方村落的一处山沟，因为土地贫瘠，长期被外界和村民所嫌弃。
2005年，北沟村新村委书记上任，目睹北沟村的萧条与荒芜，不甘贫穷落后的他决心带领村民将北沟村建成花园式的新农村。随即于2007年和2015年，为了实现花园农村的梦想，发起了两次《环境革命》。
打造环境，打造乡村的环境，仍得从改变村民的思维意识开始试探并实行。环境为了生活，为了乡村与城市之间的生活，状态，意识的逐步平衡，而并非政治目的性的行为，从而在乡村生活环境改善的同时，将城市与乡村之间的意识不平等及心理上的歧视偏见弱化甚至渐渐消除，使两个群体，在不同生活模式的条件下，却能用一种寄托依存的关系，相互融合成为一种新的社会框架。不仅仅是乡村振兴的口号性或者是自我表现型行为，而更是一种相互主动性生长融合的存在关系。
2007年第一次环境革命开始，以家庭为单位开始传递这样的意识思想，效果并不显著，但也是一个行为的开端，并已经在乡村振兴的动作之下，开始吸引外界的目光。
2008年，废弃的琉璃瓦厂被一对美国夫妇改造成了酒店，并促使开放合作的态度和眼界，开始在环境革命的过程中蔓延生长。
2009年，2049集团来到了北沟村，也开始了对村子一点一滴的扶持和改造。 从村民的生活开始进行帮助，与村民沟通并在村民的闲置房与生活模式上进行整合的尝试。
于是第二次的环境革命也在这个过程之中渐渐的开始，llLab.叙向建筑设计有幸参与其中，开始了一层层更加深入的改革动作。
北旮旯涮肉乡情驿站从乡村大棚厨房被改造成老北京涮肉和乡村会客厅；燃气站空地被勾勒成了三卅村落型民宿，尊重本地材料和建筑语言的建造方法填充入现代生活方式，将城市与北沟乡村生活相自然融合；随之，原本的瓦厂酒店又重新被改造，以更加能够在乡村发展和改革的过程中凸显出北沟村的原本特点和文化，用更加自信的表现形式，体现出琉璃瓦及长城脚下村落的底蕴。
土生土长的北方村落，已经在十几年的环境革命过程中逐渐变化成为与国际意识接轨的先锋村落。同时，美术馆的概念，已经潜移默化的在不间断的对于乡村振兴，生活融合，社区生活的归纳和讨论之中，逐渐形成。

瓦美术馆，原名北沟乡村艺术建筑美术馆，主意为表达将北沟视为第三故乡，发展乡村，活化乡村，同时使用艺术的表现手法，敢于将乡村形象与城市美学融合的一种先锋的态度。

项目本身基于对原址及村民生活的尊重，将艺术的表现与北沟乡村文化，以空间为界面，意识形态作为前提，进行感官上的融合，将视觉感觉的矛盾体结合，并在材料与空间的使用手法上，将演化用一种以文化遗产为基础，以人为动力的变化空间模式，将这股象征新的力量，把北沟视为第三故乡的人群，用憧憬的方式体现出来。

建筑及空间的材料，以本地的文化为基础，不同空间，不同时代，不同的群体和意识形态，均敢于就地取材，却用不同的理解和工艺，赋予不同的意境体现方式。
空间的内容，保留当地村民的生活模式，与新空间结合，并用概括的空间使用法，使空间能够沿着时间延伸。

因此，文化成为演变的基石，演变却又融合了当地的文化，不受时间的限制，因为内容本身的演化，也给下一步引导了方向。
北沟乡村建筑艺术美术馆的空间及展示内容，将会是一种勇敢，甚至激进的碰撞，一种固定思维与先锋意识的交流的平台，它记录了过去的脉络，描述了现在的试探，却又引申到了未知的领域。

主体建筑方面：
室内部分设置3个主题空间，分为北沟的记忆、北沟的现在、北沟的未来三部分。
“北沟的现在”主题空间位于入口部分，包括咖啡厅、社区活动间、室外休息区等功能区域。
“北沟的记忆”位于原建筑基底位置，设置有北沟历史展览、原址建筑记录、北沟建筑文化等主要展览空间，以及位于二楼的多功能厅，可作为学术报告厅、临时展厅、聚会厅等功能使用。
“北沟的未来”塔楼配有主要的阶梯展览空间，一层的服务功能空间，以及顶楼的长城眺望景观露台等功能。

北沟村的环境革命，原以为会因为这样的改变而画上句号，然而，却发现是个更新的开始。让人期待。

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Project Background:

Antuo Hill had been the site of a large-scale blasting project starting in 1997, with about half of the hill being excavated in order to provide stone for urban reclamation. Now this urban memory is planned to be preserved and elaborated on through the development of a museum cluster that will restore a damaged ecology and bring together more than 10 national and provincial institutions, forming a new cultural highlight for Shenzhen and the greater region.

Project Proposal:

The edge of architecture can define the character and attitude of an entire building complex. We try here for a more delicate approach, drawing lessons from local nature in order to find resonance in design and achieve dissolved shape and unbounded boundary. Then, in between high-density urban development and mountain landscape, new connections between architecture and city and people can be established.

The Cultural Quarries complex is like a small city. Just like art itself, it creates an unknown but tangible spatial framework in the continuous process of pursuing borderless and innovative breakthroughs. Artists exchange and explore here, while citizens can approach and comprehend their works, all within an environment that is intimately tied to nature and history. The functional frame shaped by the combination of architecture and landscape can flexibly respond to the ever-changing needs and interpretations of the future. From the exhibition space to the civic space, from an independent building to an artistic landscape city, it continues its vitality, as nature is endless.

项目背景:

从1997年起，安托山开始爆破采石，约一半的山体用于深圳的填海造陆工程。现在，这段珍贵的城市记忆得以保留，并被精心规划为博物馆群来修复受损的生态，引入超过十个省级、国家级的艺术机构，它们将一同组成深圳乃至大湾区的文化新地标。

项目说明:

“建筑边界”定义“建筑整体”的性格和态度。我们倾向于使用更细腻的方法，向本地的自然学习，从中寻找与建筑的共鸣；从而做到形则无形，界亦无界，进而在高密的山地景观中建立建筑与城市、建筑与人的新联系。

艺术矿山建筑群如同一座小的城市。就像艺术本身，它在追求无边界和创新突破的持续过程中，创造未知但却有形的空间框架。在历史于自然交汇的空间里，艺术家在此交流探索艺术，市民也能够接触和了解艺术。建筑结合景观所塑造的功能载体，能够灵活应对未来不断变化的需求和解读。从展览空间发展到市民空间，从独立的建筑发展成艺术景观城市，延续自己的生命力，如同自然生生不息。

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Brief Background of The Brickyard Retreat

The history of the Brickyard Retreat can be traced back to an independent tile firing workshop, known as the glazed tile factory. Located at the foot of the Great Wall at Mutianyu, Beigou village, Huairou District, Beijing, the glazed tile factory had been decommissioned due to a reduction in market demand. The vacant tile factory building took on a new life in 2010 as a tile factory Hotel; the building was renamed, “The Brickyard Retreat”. Owned by local villagers that love architecture and Chinese culture, the factory building took on a hospitality role under their care.
In September 1, 2020, the building transitioned again. The owner of the nearby “San Sa Village” acquired “The Brickyard Retreat” and LLLab. was honored to be invited to participate in the next step of cultural development for the Beigou village.

The Structure of Cultural Life in Beigou Village

Beigou village is famous for its geographic feature and proximity to the Great Wall of Mutianyu. In 2018, “The Brickyard Retreat” in Beigou village became one of the first Chinese rural heritage hotels jointly selected by the State Administration of cultural relics of China and the China Association for the protection of ancient sites. So far, it is still the only Heritage Hotel in Beijing to receive this award.
A renewed interest in cultural tourism has prompted more than 100 villagers of Beigou Village to create and operate different types of B & B business opportunities. At the same time, with the completion of “San Sa Village”, Beigou village has gradually formed its own tourist infrastructure, which has brought a great variety of travel accommodation experiences for tourists. This hospitality development has generated multiple job opportunities for local villagers and continuous to support social development for the community. The combination of rural revitalization and cultural preservation presents a promising strategy for a sustainable and ecologically informed development.

Target and Strategy of The Brickyard Retreat Renovation

The Brickyard Retreat is an example of a new trajectory of urban renewal in this region. A trajectory of carefully considered architectural interventions that are necessary and unavoidable in order to protect and support a thriving cultural heritage.
The architectural intervention in The Brickyard Retreat is structured around three main architectural elements: Glazed Tile, Old Kiln and Red Brick. These elements are of particular significance as they reflect the cultural heritage of the factory, the architectural history of the space and the local culture of the village itself. The intervention leverages these elements to articulate program spaces, landscape features and a mutual respect to the site.

Spatial Framework

The program is organized around the main building on the south side of the courtyard; this is the space where the original tile burning kiln is located. The building’s program includes a multi-purpose reception space that can also accommodate small gathering events. Embracing the architectural and historical importance of its features, tiles in both natural and bright colored glazes are used throughout the floor. Forming an organic mosaic, the combination of historical features and contemporary design interventions provides and stimulating atmosphere that connects its new use with its previous technical background and creative history.
The north courtyard, offers a distinctly different vision. The use of local red brick and the open view of the Mutianyu Great Wall reinforce a natural connection to the local, rural and traditional lifestyles. This is a quiet space that aims to slow down activity patterns, offering a space for rest and creativity. The north courtyard space focuses on the perception of nature and landscape.

Design Elements - Glazed Tile, Old Kiln, Red Brick
The design intent seeks to honor the authentic quality of natural materials and highlights the relationship between human beings and nature over time. This is a direct reference to the dialectical relation between craftsmen and their understanding of the natural properties of materials.
“The Brickyard Retreat” demonstrates pride in the Beigou village heritage by honouring a tradition of exceptional workmanship while defining its own architectural style. The renovation of “The Brickyard Retreat” respects and embraces the local craft history while highlighting the evolution of consciousness that cultural products can bring to people and society.

Glazed Tile
The architectural language of the kiln, a sequence of cave-like space, is unified and intensified through the tiling treatment in the floor. Different sizes of tiles and methods of tiling support the distinct atmospheres of each space. The roof, indoor paving and outdoor courtyard paving have each their own distinct tiling pattern. The glazed tile mediates the cultural heritage and history of the building. The rich tile mosaics engages the visitor through multiples senses, from its varied tactile quality, its acoustic signature, to its visually engaging brightly colored patterns. Every effort is made to convey the social significance of preserving and reinterpreting cultural heritage in the current society.
The green glazed tile roof forms a straight datum line, this gesture acts as a canvas for the more organic forms of the kiln structures. The bright green of the tiles marks the importance of the building, referencing the hierarchy of roof color in traditional architecture, while echoing the vibrant greenery of the natural vegetation around the site.

Old Kiln
The former kiln is the most historical part of the tile factory itself. To celebrate its unique quality, the existing interior texture of the structure has been preserved as much as possible. Only one extra interior wall has been added for both safety and comfort reasons. With this minimal intervention, the guests can experience the space in the cave from all angles while having the opportunities to access the unique multi-layered material deposits - relics of its former use. The arched porch has been extended to become the main entrance of the building, this provides the visitors with a first impression, appealing directly to the heritage of the building. This gesture enhances the historical importance of the kiln building and reinforces the solemn nature of architectural language.

Red Brick
Materials and construction techniques, within the traditional sense of rural construction, have been challenged in the project. The re-appropriation of these methods provides new expressive qualities to the materials when they are used in a different architectural framework. While red brick is extensively used, in homage to the local rural heritage, it is used with more autonomy than before in order to break through and reach a new level local expression.
The re-conceptualization and re-appropriation of traditional materials and techniques seeks to investigate the dialog between spatial relations, forms of inhabitation and ideologies from both urban and rural life conditions.

Expectation and Vision

Three years after the completion of “San She Nostalgic Station” and “San Sa Village”, at the foot of the Mutianyu Great Wall, The Brickyard Retreat presents itself as another study of spatial and cultural reappropriation within this unique rural context. The project challenges the relations between rural and urban life withing spaces of critical cultural significance. At Lllab. we seek to develop an inclusive approach, that reconceptualize local landscape and architectural languages to create interrelated spatial qualities. We hope that the projects can stimulate people to actively seek a special perception of culture.

瓦厂酒店简单背景介绍

位于北京市怀柔区北沟村慕田峪长城脚下的琉璃瓦厂原为北沟村自营的烧制作坊，然而随着市场不景气的因素而废弃。而后，废弃的瓦厂建筑被住在附近的热爱建筑学及中国文化的国外村民改建成为瓦厂酒店。
2020年9月1日起，毗邻瓦厂的三卅精品民宿的业主并购瓦厂酒店，LLLab. 叙向建筑 则有幸再次参与其中，以共同打造北沟村的乡村建设及文化发展的下一步。

北沟村的生活文化结构

北沟村因其地理位置邻近慕田峪长城而闻名，2018年，位于北沟村的瓦厂酒店又成为首批由中国国家文物局和中国古遗址保护协会共同评选的中国乡村遗产酒店。至今也是北京唯一一家获此殊荣的遗产酒店。
100多户村民因旅游行业及近期兴起的农家乐，而各自发掘并运营着不同类型的民宿事业机会，同时，因为三卅的建成，北沟村也逐渐形成了自身的运转体系，为游客带来了不同类型的旅行住宿体验，为村民带来了各种不同的工作机会，并同时发掘出潜力的发展需求，使乡村振兴与城市空间的探索结合形成了更新更可持续的生态组成结构。

瓦厂改建的目标与策略

在这样的新社会框架及生活需求条件下，瓦厂的演化及更新也就成为了它及其拥有的文化遗产继续衍生及传播的必经过程。
瓦厂的改建，主要集中体现在整体区域的整合划分，以及三个主要元素上，琉璃瓦，旧址窑洞，砖，分别体现了文化的遗产，建筑的历史，及本地的文化。同时用最纯粹的体现手法，使建筑空间，景观空间，与大自然的链接关系在不同的比例关系下产生呼应及相互的层次衬托。

空间框架
整体区域来理解，则主楼，原烧瓦窑洞区域所在的南院一侧，以接待，会议，活动等集体体量的，更活跃一些的氛围为主的院落，在平衡建筑庄严及历史厚重感的同时，用自然及明亮的多色彩为表现方式，使其能在过去的庄严感中寻找能够激活和愉悦的空间体验方式，使内容及氛围在这种活化的设计手法中能够带着过去和历史的背景，一同演变。
绕过院落连接的屏风处，抵达北院，则视野豁然开朗，材料清晰区分，使本地，乡村，康养生活的自然感受最大化，使活动方式也缓慢下来，形成对比强烈的一种慢速恬静的意境，使生活体验及自然感受成为北院空间的最主要载体。

设计元素 - 琉璃瓦，旧址窑洞，红砖
整体设计遵循尊重天然材料的表现形式标准，以材料自身的属性，在自然条件下的变化，来凸显人与自然与时间之间的关系。
瓦厂坐落于北沟村，北沟村则本以自身建筑的材料风格及做工手法为一种自信的象征代表，同时瓦厂改造，则以尊重琉璃瓦厂的文化为基础，突出文化产物能给人与社会带来的一种意识变化，因此，主要设计元素即以表现这些本地的文化元素，历史沉淀及重新激活文化底蕴的手法来实施。

琉璃瓦
旧址窑洞建筑语言整理统一化，并在屋顶，室内铺地及室外庭院的铺地等不同空间层面采用不同比例，不同尺度，不同方法的应用，使此文化遗产元素能够通过不同的感官，视觉，触觉的联系，与人进行沟通，以传递对于此文化遗产在现今社会的重新理解及演变意义。
统一的绿色琉璃瓦屋面整体形成一条直线，在强调老窑洞建筑的历史意义的同时，与原有的花色琉璃瓦建筑在屋顶的层面平衡。同时绿色的屋顶在地面层人眼视角上，将屋顶与自然的草地植被面联系，使感受着能够自身将空间的不同层面结合起来。
当感受者能够将自身放置在这样的角度时，主要体验就已经和其中一层面的琉璃瓦处理融合了，也就是将不同的旧瓦及新瓦通过手工敲制而形成的碎片，作为画面路面的铺装，进入室内时，铺装的比例变化为更加精细的尺度，使感受一层层的递进。

旧址窑洞
旧址窑洞是瓦厂本身最具有历史的一部分，所以在保留内部窑洞空间肌理的同时，增加了更加亲人的室内墙体面，是感受者能够静止并各角度的感受窑洞内的空间。此外，延续窑洞建筑的拱门特点，将拱形门廊，延伸到建筑的主入口，使加深窑洞历史的沉淀感，建筑的体量庄严感，同时尽可能保留窑洞原有的空间感受，并将最核心的历史意义直接作为第一印象传递给感受者。

红砖
红砖建筑的延续则更是作为本地乡村肌理的延续，并在空间内容上尝试突破到新的生活层面。
乡村传统意义理解上的材料与建设手法，尝试在建设过程中就做出一定挑战，以形成不一样的空间架构，从而给未曾实现的空间体验能够在相同材料但不同空间内实现。这种用传统模式呈现不传统生活体验的传统模式演变进化，则希望给城市与乡村在生活空间理解和意识形态上，进一步的进行融合与探索。

期望及远景

瓦厂改造是我们在慕田峪长城脚下的北沟村，自叁舍乡情驿站，三卅之后，有一个对于乡村生活文化背景的研究与空间扩展，同时，也是又一个层面的对于乡村及城市生活关系的探索。我们希望用一种包容的迎接的态度，用当地的人文模式，去描绘它自身的庄严意义。在这样的条件下，运用景观和建筑语言，创造相互关联的空间品质，激发人们积极寻求对文化的特殊感知。

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DAPENG PUBLIC AFFAIRS CENTER

Project Background
The Dapeng Public Affairs Center will be situated within a park at the base of a mountain range, not far from the sea. Combining program ranging from government facilities, to cultural archives & museums, to recreational sports grounds, this project offers a unique challenge. Here we explored how such a large complex can simultaneously unite a diverse set of activities, while fostering an atmosphere of opennness to the public, all while also forming strong links to its vibrant and varied natural context.

Diversity and Ecology
The urban edge is a key space for any city. What happens here can determine future patterns of development, for better and for worse. If the natural landscapes at the edge are seen as obstacles that need to be leveled or avoided, then the boundary will always be pushed forward, with no nature left behind. Our proposal aims for a more sensitive approach. By drawing lessons from local architecture traditions, a new relationship is possible to form between high density development and existing mountain landscapes.
Similarly, this approach can also find a new balance between diverse building types, achieving a form that can simultaneously provide both a strong civic image and a system of many small, human-scale spaces that are intimately linked to nature.

大鹏公共事务中心

项目背景
大鹏公共事务中心毗邻大海，地处一座山脚下的公园中。它将提供包括市政建筑，档案方志、博物馆，乃至休闲运动场地等多种功能，面对独一无二的挑战。在此，我们探索如何在大型综合体中融入一系列不同活动，同时促进开放包容的环境，并以全新的姿态融入当地生机勃勃的自然文脉中去。

多元共生 连接环境
城市的边界至关重要，这里发生的一切决定了未来的利弊。如果城市边界的自然景观被看作是一种需要避免和扫除的障碍，那这条边界将不断后退，直至自然被蚕食殆尽。我们倾向于更细腻的方法。那便是向本地的建筑传统学习，进而在高密度的发展和山地景观中建立新的联系。
简而言之，这个过程可以达到多种不同建筑类型的平衡，既呈现一个强烈的公民建筑，又保留一系列的人性化小空间，并将建筑和自然环境连结在一起。

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Located in Xintiandi, V-Garden City Lounge integrates the concept of digital immersion and personal characteristics providing an ultimate esports cultural experience and lifestyle for young corporate generation.

V-Garden City Lounge tries to make a unique interpretation of "virtual cyberspace" from a curiosity about the future. This is a space with experimental and imaginative e-sports power with a pioneering attitude, and by visualising a virtual form to present the exploration of mankind’s future space. The space embeds contemporary ‘grid-like’ motifs of ‘cyberspace’ into an operative language that invokes a sense of ubiquity through geometric structures that organise the overall volume. In the space where the boundary between human and digital realm dissolves, the physical separation is replaced by the soft boundary given by different degrees of density and abstraction of structure and becomes a flexible open space.

The digital future coexists within reality, and to construct a convincing space under this setting that surpasses the common sense of reality is the exploration of human beings for the vast future.

VSPN城市会客厅坐落于新天地，以个人风格的理念融合未来虚拟空间的特性，为忙碌的都市年轻力量呈现极致的电竞文化体验和生活方式。

在这个主题下，VSPN城市会客厅亦对未来“虚拟数据空间”作出独特的解读。这是一个充满想象力和多元化的电竞商业空间，通过具像化虚拟数据形态的方式呈现了对人类未来空间的探索。基于虚拟数据空间的阵列架构特性，网格语言延伸与扩展至空间的不同维度，演化成各种结构与形态。在虚拟和现实的边界逐渐消解的空间里，物理的分隔被架构聚散所赋予的软边界取代，变为一个更灵活多变的开放空间。

虚拟的未来与现实的维度共存并达到奇妙的平衡，在超越现实常理的设定下构建具有说服力的场景与空间便是人类对于浩瀚未来的探索。

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GROWING FROM TRADITION
In our opinion, good modern architecture needs to be linked to history. It needs to respond to given circumstances rather than impose oneself upon them. It needs to look at the past and the tradition of building in a certain part of the world. And it needs to understand WHY things were designed a certain way in order to function. In this particular case, in the harsh climate of Saudi Arabia, we drew inspiration from traditional Arabian settlements.

RAMMED EARTH
Buildings were made from local materials like mud and clay, they were made solid to withstand the scorching heat, while keeping the interior cool. Openings were as big as they needed to be. These buildings seemed to have grown straight out of the underlying soil. Using rammed earth gives us the opportunity to improve upon this traditional building technique. It uses the local sand as aggregate and therefore not only matches the landscape in colour, it also allows for fairly inexpensive construction as well. These buildings provide a solid plinth, that incorporate Arabian tradition in materiality and response to the environment. Atop this plinth, modern buildings are situated like jewels, encapsulating stunning views while being viewed from afar at the same time.

ZEN GARDENS
In order to create a luxurious feel in a dense urban environment, we believe the space between the buildings is as important as the buildings themselves. This would achieve the sensation of being in a luxury retreat, sat in an ocean of green. Framing views of the gardens and water features, as well as having the residents take a journey through interior and exterior spaces only enhances that.

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The Impression Sanjie Liu, Yangshuo, Guilin is located in one of the most dramatic landscapes in China. Endless greenery surrounds the site filling space between large karst towers of rock. With a landscape so grand any moves to dismiss it, let alone compete would make little sense. With this understanding it was decided that the natural elements themselves would form the premise for what architecture would inhabit the site, one element in particular, bamboo.

The Impression Sanjie Liu is already well established, now in its 15th year of operation. The project presented a situation where most existing structures would remain untouched. Instead focus shifted to how introducing new intervention could support a pre-existing condition. At present, large clusters of bamboo cover most of the site, creating structures of mingling pipes and leaves. As a means to coincide with what is already there, the new architecture looked at borrowing the materiality of the bamboo, reconfiguring it to form new space. In doing so, this new space means not to contest. Instead it aims to augment, albeit very gently, the surrounding bamboo groves and hills.

Currently, the night show entertains guests in two areas, one at either end of the island site. The entry and pagoda where guests arrive, and the main stage, perched at the bank of the Li river at the other end. Between these two points little interaction takes place. It is here in this middle ground that two new assemblies of architecture are introduced. The first, woven bamboo lantern structures, scattered where guests circulate, whose purpose is to guide and intrigue. Then the other, a stretch of woven canopy amongst clusters of bamboo, providing area to walk sheltered from regular rainfall. In these, the architecture relies on bamboo not only for its composition, but also its constant referral to parts that constitutes the place.

When entering the site, lanterns small in stature line along the pathway cast out signals of dappled light. As visitors travel further the once small lanterns become drastically larger to a point where the guest can find themselves able to walk inside. The makeup of the lanterns remains sincere, with a structure of bamboo lengths encased in lashed bamboo either side. On closer inspection one can get a sense of the random beauty that can only be created when something is truly constructed by hand. The slightly dark appearance of bamboo framing shows markings of how it is bowed with fire to create the curved lantern silhouette. Over this, piece by piece, teams of local craftsman have threaded numerous stripes of bamboo in an unintentional pattern that requires no glues or nails to hold its shape. This method of production is a showcase of intricacy, clearly shaped by the hands of people and their intuition of beauty.

In the daylight, the lanterns appear solid, the yellow of the shell in compliment with the green surrounding. Come night the personality of the lantern shifts from something more unyielding to a porous shell. The lantern itself is a diffuser of light, playing theatrics of scale and light with guests. As a whole, the lantern looks at home under the arching towers of bamboo in its peripheries. Almost by chance, when looking to the distance the lantern silhouette is echoed by the stone towers of the Yangshuo, Guilin landscape strewn along the immediate horizon.

Further along at the edge of the island, the canopy shrouds itself within the large masts of bamboo. At first glance it appears to rely on little for support, only the columns of bamboo shooting up and through circular openings. Hidden amongst these living clusters columns twist from their footing upward and outward mimicking the indecisive route of the bamboo to meet the structure above. Supported by the columns in a maze of tubes, the structure of the canopy while seen doesn’t look out of place. The hand-woven layer obscures what is in front and what lays behind. Stretching 140m from where you stand the woven ceiling takes on a shape of an inverted landscape, undulating between different levels of surfaces. The stepping surface of the canopy is pieced together entirely in the same irregular hand-woven bamboo as the lantern, but on a scale that seems that it should be seated in fantasy. The resulting intention means to enchant while still extending recognition to the natural condition of the site.

Under daylight, light streams through to the woven canopy bringing patches of dappled light to the ground below. While reprieve from the sun is apparent when walking underneath, in an unexpected compliment when looking up the ceiling appears illuminated, the entire canopy giving off a temperate glow. In the transition to night, introduced light within the volume rises in intensity focusing the spattering of light in a more vivid pattern on the pathway. Fragments of bodies dip in and out view as light streams down through the ceiling above onto guests making their way the stage.

In acknowledgment to the theatrical spirit of the Impression Sanjie Liu, moments of performance make its way into many parts of the design: The hand weaving, bamboo playing off the tension of one another. The topography of the canopy ceiling dancing between columns of bamboo as if unsupported. Even the way guests are intended to move from lantern to lantern, in a narrative of interaction. Together these subtle hints encourage a particular frame of mind, readying the guest for the main feature.

桂林山水甲天下，项目地位于阳朔印象刘三姐园区，中国最富戏剧性的自然景观环境区之一。无尽的绿植环绕着大型山丘巨石之间，面对如此宏伟的景观地貌，任何与之不协调而对抗的设计手法都变得不再合理。基于这种对于现场的理解，自然元素本身即成为这次建筑概念设计的前提，尤其是竹子。

印象刘三姐园区的演出，已经运营15年的时间了。参考本地景观的状态，针对于该项目的设计出发点提出了一种将大多数现有结构维持不变的想法，将设计和规划的重点转移到采用一种可以维护现有景观的同时，更加强调和突出本地自然之美的干预手法。
目前，大部分地区都覆盖有大片竹子，形成了竹林绿道长廊的结构。为了与已经存在的方式相吻合，新建筑考虑借用竹子的生长习性和其生长过程中形成的空间形态，将其重新配置以形成新的空间。
这样的设计和实施策略，使新形成的空间不会与现有的自然环境相互竞争，同时却有呼应和强化的效果。尽管自然的手法，达到最佳效果需要过度时期和相对来说较长的时间，但这样的过程反而更能体现出这样可生长的设计策略的力量，同时增强了感受者与周围的竹林和丘陵的互动感和意识感。

印象刘三姐的演出在天黑后开始，观众和园区的拜访者主要集中在园区岛屿的两端，起始点为园区的主入口，即宾客到达的入口和原鼓楼区域（现修缮后的印象刘三姐文化博物馆场地），另一端，也就是演出舞台及观众席，则位于园区最深处的漓江岸边。而此两端之间，占据园区大部分区域的空间却仅仅作为交通疏散及流线的区域来使用，完全没有连接性的文化内容帮助访客获得更有意义的体验。正是在这个中间模棱两可的空间里，项目的概念引入了两个新的体系以融合入现有的自然肌理同时形成一种情绪感知及故事文化的铺垫过程。

第一个体系“竹灯未央”, 即手工竹编制成的灯笼结构空间，散落分布在访客入场流线的区域，以作为入场前感受印象刘三姐文化的体验/文创销售/休憩空间点。
另一个体系“手工竹艺长廊”, 在竹丛之间形成一层手工编织高低错落的“竹网”，提供了可以避开常规降雨的步行区域。
这两个竹体体系的创建和形成，则不仅仅是作为它们本身存在的属性，而它们与周围自然环境的材料上的，肢体上的，感受上的一种内外在的共鸣与呼应，则更是不断传递着层层更新的意义，使相互赋予更强更有活力的生命力。

刚刚进入园区时，沿着通往演出场地的通道，体型较小的竹灯会发出斑驳的光线信号，随着访客进一步向园区深处走去时，原本视觉上因为距离而感觉是竹灯的体量突然变得越来越大，以至于可以成为可以供人使用的空间。视觉产生的体积大小的错觉，和当认知到这个实现错觉并感受到不同体量变化带来的物品和空间的不同感受时，原本纯流线的行走通道则因此变得有趣，从而不再因为功能上和行为上的单一性带来感受上的单调感。
竹灯的妆容是真诚的，内外两侧都由手工切割的竹条绑扎包裹着天然竹杆自然找形形成的竹制结构。微观视角地观察其细节，人们可以感觉到只有在真正手工制作的条件下才能创造出的随机美感。竹灯的外侧编织层感官上略显深暗一些，即真实反映了通过火烧加热处理以形成弯曲的竹灯轮廓所留下的自然印迹。基于此工艺的基础上，当地的工匠团队以随机的方式将无数的竹条相互穿插缠绕，不夹杂任何胶水或钉子来保持其形状和纹理，并完全自然地以此方式寻找着最真实的光线穿透效果。这种生产方法展示了错综复杂却最合理真实的创造方式，同时清晰地由工匠们的手及其潜意识对材料的深刻理解和对材料美感的意识形态所塑造。
在日光下，竹灯的外形显得相对坚实，外壳的黄色与绿色的环境相辅相成。到了晚上，竹灯的个性从空间性的体态转变为多孔而更加通透的形式。竹灯本身成为光的散射体，与访客一起玩起了视觉空间的变形和光线变化的戏剧游戏。
从整体上看，竹灯的概念取之于园区竹丛在空中交错而形成的拱形门洞式形态，然而，几乎是一种偶然，当仰望远处时，阳朔的自然石山也呼应了竹灯的轮廓。
桂林的风景沿着眼前的地平线散落。

沿着岛的边缘伸展，“手工竹艺长廊”的竹棚飘浮在错落而至的竹丛之间，乍一看，它似乎几乎没有依靠结构支撑，只有竹丛穿过竹棚圆形的开口空间并向上生长，而隐藏在其中的如竹子般粗细的结构柱，则从其立足点开始向上向外旋转而扭曲地，如模仿了竹子的生长模式一般，也长入圆形的开口空间并与竹棚内部的结构相连。
“手工竹艺长廊”的竹条编织表面从入口的位置延伸140米有余，呈倒置景观的形状，并不同高低幅度地上下起伏，同时，竹棚表面完全用与竹灯相同的不规则手工编织竹条制作而成，看起来如是幻想中的空间体验，并顺着竹体波浪飘向空间的深处，将原本枯燥的等待体验变得虚幻而沉浸，又再次将访客的感观扩展到整个自然环境的氛围中去。
光线穿透竹编波浪，将斑驳的光点散布到地面上。当在竹棚下行走时，光亮通过竹棚散射开均匀的照亮整个空间，但当抬头仰望时，却可感受到意想不到的视觉体验。整个顶篷散发出温和的光芒，并发散出金色的光辉。
当夜色降临时，竹棚体内的人造灯光光线通过竹网的缝隙，将光体更有戏剧性更专注的照射在地面，顶底两层光波的实虚包夹，更让体验变得充实。

对刘三姐印象的戏剧精神的认可及对当地自然环境的感动和尊敬，很多感知的元素潜移默化地穿插进入了设计的许多部分：手工编织文化的融入，竹条材料的使用与自然竹林环境的融合，竹棚起伏的倒置地形在竹丛立柱之间的舞动，结构柱的体态与竹子生长形态的呼应，甚至在叙事性的流线及互动情境中，访客从一个竹灯移到另一个空间的方式，这些微妙的细节提示共同激发了特定的意识感知框架，为访客观看印象刘三姐的演出带来了最好的心理和文化的铺垫。

The Yangshuo Impressions Sanjie Liu seats itself in one of the most dramatic landscapes in China. A blanket of greenery surrounds the site filling space between large karst towers of rock. With a landscape so grand, any attempt to dismiss it, let alone compete makes little sense. With this understanding, it was decided that the natural elements themselves would form the premise for what architecture would inhabit the site, one element in particular, bamboo.

The Impression Sanjie Liu is already well established, now in its 15th year of operation. This presented a situation where most existing structures would remain untouched. Instead focus was shifted to how new intervention could support a pre-existing condition. At present, large clusters of bamboo cover most of the site, creating walls and roofs of mingling pipes and leaves. The concept looks at borrowing the materiality of the bamboo, reconfiguring it to form new space. In doing so, this new space aims to in no way challenge, rather its intention is to augment, albeit very gently, the surrounding bamboo groves and hills.

Currently, there are two main areas of interest for the guest, one at either end of the lengthy island site. The first, the front gate and pagoda where guests enter and can wait. At the other end, the main stage, perched at the bank of the Li river. However, between these two points remained little interaction. It is here in this middle ground that two assemblies of architecture are introduced. The first, woven bamboo lantern structures, scattered where guests circulate, whose purpose is to guide and intrigue. The second, a stretch of canopy amongst clusters of bamboo, providing area to walk sheltered from regular rainfall. In these, the architecture relies on bamboo not only for its composition, but also its constant referral to sentiment of place.

Near the entry of the site, the lanterns begin small in stature, casting out signals of dappled light through their porous facades. Further in they become incrementally larger to a point where the guest can enter. Here, following the suspense of only viewing, features of the lantern can be experienced from both the inside and out. The makeup of the lanterns remains sincere, with a structure of lashed bamboo that is enclosed in a hand-woven mesh either side, the exterior coarser than the linear weaving inside. To the southern edge of the island the canopy shrouds itself within the massive masts of bamboo. At first glance, it appears to rely on little for support, only the columns of bamboo shooting up and through openings above. The ceiling takes on a shape of an inverted landscape, undulating between different levels of surfaces. The stepping surface of the canopy is covered entirely in irregular hand-woven bamboo, the intention to enchant while still extending recognition to the natural condition of the site.

In acknowledgment to the theatrical spirit of the Impressions Sanjie Liu, moments of performance make its way into many parts of the design: The hand weaving, bamboo playing off the tension of one another. The topography of the canopy ceiling dancing between columns of bamboo as if unsupported. Even the way guests are intended to move from lantern to lantern, in a narrative of interaction. Together these subtle hints encourage a particular frame of mind, readying the guest for the main feature.

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镜
在一号场地，一个微微下凹的圆盘置于河道中间。
晴天雨天，圆盘的积水或浅或深。
雨后的桥面成为巨大的镜子，被天空填满。

光
二号场地，厚重的墙将天空压成细细一道光。
在窄窄的桥上，通过光感知变化的时间和季节。

默
在三号场地，以一种谦逊的姿态连接两岸。
桥体结构简单轻盈，消隐在环境中。
四周变化的环境是主角，桥是默默的剧场。

A site of heated artistic discourse and creative force
A platform of contesting voices and diverse tongues
A place of spontaneous responses and open counterblasts
一个创作者思想碰撞的场所，允许各种思想进驻其中
一个作品表达的平台，给予先锋语言平等发声权利
一个参观者自由论战的场所，尊重不同观点态度产生

Power Station of Art 5th floor is stating the attitude of contemporary art
free, open, equal and democratic
PSA展览馆5层作为常设展厅的同时也在表达对当代艺术态度
民主，自由，平等，开放

Un-wall the walled and eliminate the hierarchy of space
突破原有空间界限，将原本的空间层级消除，创造一个更加开放的场所

Spotlights on the distinct conversations between art work and beholder
尊重作品与参观者的对话方式，使作品和参观者平等交流的同时成为展览空间的主角

A Space for all
重塑艺术的权利

Void, yes, maybe.
Sometimes filling an imaginary hole can be as satisfactory as eating a croissant.
You asked for a plan, so how long will you wait to build it?
One or the other.

Bon Appétit.

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“San Sa”, formerly named as “The Third Hometown”, refers to a social space created for a introspective group of people who seek a space away from everyday life to recharge the mind, body, and spirit. The project is situated on a 2,000-square-meter unused plot of land, which was originally occupied by a gas station and about forty minutes' walk from the Mutianyu Great Wall.
“三卅”，原名“第三故乡”，意指为一种特殊人群而创造的第三种社会空间，以帮助他/她们找寻属于自己的那一种舒适距离及精神氛围。项目便以这样的初衷，在距慕田峪长城步行四十分钟左右的一块面积约为2000平方米的原村落燃气站空地上开始。

The original idea of the project was to build an inclusive rural oasis in a place that has been selected as one of China's top ten most beautiful villages by a number of internationally renowned media. The aim is to provide visitors with a spatial and sensory experience that evokes personal renewal, inpart by reflecting on the imagined memory of lives past. To embed within the design an appreciation for the site‘s heritage, we extended the existing spatial arrangement of the village, scattering the architectural blocks in-line with the typical village plan, while combining those blocks into an integrated whole. This approach enabled us to create a spatial pattern and order that blends rather seamlessly into the local built environment. By subverting the stereotypical concept of rural tourism resorts, we hope to create a kind of "village within a village" and to give this piece of land the vitality it deserves.
项目原本的设想是在这个被多个国际知名媒体评为中国十大最美村落的地方，围一座应有尽有的乡村绿洲，为拜访者提供所谓回忆里已流逝的生活点滴。可这样的温故，对底蕴哪里有半点的尊重，于是，我们延续了村庄现有的空间排列肌理，依然是一座建筑，将屋顶按村落格局打碎，创造了更融入的空间规律与秩序。颠覆掉千篇一律的乡村度假村的观念，希望用一种衍生的村中村的概念，给予这片土地应有的生命力。

The visions happened to coincide; the concept of "village within village" began to develop, growing throughout the design and construction process of more than four years.
远见不谋而合，村中村的概念便开始经历长达四年有余的生长过程。

Design. This project complies with the basic elements and volume division of the original village, and aims to simplify architectural details in order to facilitate the use of local resources. The design emerges through this process, informed in part, by the overall rhythm and pace of real life, and through a lived experience of the building site.
设计。遵从整体现有村落的建筑基本元素及体量分区，并在细节上做出简化处理，以便于在呈现的过程中能够让本地的资源得以运用，又可以在整体韵律上，让过滤下来的感受与现实生活的节奏能找到一些贯穿的感受。

Materials. Within the particular environment of Beijing, the selection, production and transportation of building materials posed many challenges throughout construction. Therefore, we tried our best to use local materials that were authentic and readily available, without introducing ornamental or decorative elements. Observing the natural phenomenon of the wind and the sun helped to reveal the hidden wisdom and beauty of the materials. The old slate as the landscape pavement, the porous red brick in the private courtyard, the stone brick joints at the building wall base, and the collocation of red brick and blue brick used for building walls, all together made the relatively impressive material characteristics and the dignity of the architectural geometry present a feeling of leisure and quietness.
材料。在北京的特殊大环境下，建筑材料的选择，制作，运输，都使建设的过程变得极为困难。所以我们尽可能的就地取材，材料以真实为本，不推崇装饰主义，以本真的形式展现。让风吹日晒的自然现象使材料更显底蕴。老石板的景观地面铺装，私院的渗水红砖，建筑墙根的石砖连接，建筑墙体的红砖青砖的搭配使用，却让相对凝重的材料特性及建筑几何形态的庄重感，呈现出了悠闲又安静的感觉。

Realization. The whole process of building became a growing process of constant trial, self-pursuit and self-subversion. Only with the participation of local villagers can village houses find their real roots and become truly integrated into the village life. The construction team was fully integrated with modern management and local villagers' practices. From architectural design, drawings and communication, to production samples, on-site testing, error correction, re-understanding, re-production, and repetitive attempts, the entire team came to form common values. The entire team‘s commitment to these idealistic values may be the most fundamental to the realization of San Sa.
实现。整个建造的过程，就是不断的尝试，自我追求，自我推翻的成长过程。村里的房子，只有了本地村民的参与，才会有它真正的根，才能真正融入成为村落生活的一部分。建造团队的搭建，充分融合了现代的管理和村民的实践，从建筑的设计，制图，沟通，到制作样品，现场测试，纠错，重新理解，再制作，反反复复的尝试，使整个团队，形成了一种共同的价值观，这种自我追求的理想型价值观，也许是实现过程中，最值得提及并对建筑设计的实现有最根本的帮助的因素。

Details. The details of this project, in our view, certainly cannot be as good as the ideals rendered by the pen on the paper. However, the coordination and compromise in the details are produced by the process of integrating the intention of rational design with the subjectivity of in-situ thinking. Indeed, the most attractive details of San Sa are derived through the communication, contradictions, conflicts, and lessons that arise on site, and especially through subsequent experimental attempts in the case of unknown results.
细节。此项目的细节，在我们看来，一定不如纸笔上展示的理想，但这里的细节，理性设计的初衷与主观惰性思维上的捏合所经历的过程，及通过矛盾，抵触，沟通，学习，之后在结果未知情况下的实验性尝试，这些过程所产生的协调性/妥协性的细节呈现，才是“三卅”最吸引人的细节。

Architects with different cultural backgrounds used their experience and vision to precisely plan the details. The attitude of the construction team changed from "typically we don't do this, typically we do this," to a new understanding of joints and connections through hand drawing and through the meticulous realization of the final production. From learning the proper alignment of materials to understanding randomized patterning, until by the end, feeling it was not perfect enough and spontaneously hoping to continue improving; this transformation was the most gratifying part for us among all the architectural details.
不同文化背景的建筑师，用经历和理想，精确规划细节，实施团队，从 “一般我们不这么做，一般我们这么做”，到手绘重新理解节点，至制作呈现；从学习线条的平齐，到理解随意的拼接，到最后觉得不够完美希望继续尝试改进；这样的变化，是所有建筑细节中，我们觉得最欣慰的一点。

Ecology. The layout of the design aims to make the ecology of buildings and courtyards different from other typical buildings in North China. By responding to issues of human-scale and social interface in place-making, the project seeks to break the conventional 'mode of thought' for the Visitor. The continuation of culture and lifestyle is certainly necessary, but it is meaningless to conservatively follow the rules and blindly carry it forward. We hope to use this method, which seems to challenge the typical comfort zone for people living in the North to interact with space, and to bring the visitors another way of contemplating life. You can feel that the courtyards are similar to those in South China, or feel that they are a mixture of north and south buildings. You may feel that there is not enough privacy, but more likely, you may come to feel that the space offers some enticing exotic elements. In any case, this kind of thinking has already brought forward the vitality of self-reflection and a conscious engagement with the environment.
生态。设计的布局，目的在于使建筑，院落的生态，在北方却区别于北方，以人性为理解基本，从而一定程度上打破体验者传统的固有思维方式。文化与生活方式的延续当然是需要的，但是墨守成规的遵循和盲目发扬，却是没有意义的。我们希望用这种看似挑战在北方人与空间交流的舒适极限的方法，给这里的体验者带来另一种对于生活的思考。可以觉得这样的院落类似南方，可以觉得是南北建筑的混搭，也可以觉得这里私密性不够，更可以觉得它还掺杂了异域的元素，可是，也就是这样的思考，已经为这样的布局带来了具有自我批判性的生命力。

This kind of "courtyard neighborhood" ecology may be the best way for "San Sa" to help people who visit to re-examine their lives and to gain an appreciation for the original intention and method of rural construction.
这种“院落邻里”的生态，也许是“三卅”能够帮助来这里的人们，重新审视生活，重新看待乡村建设的初衷和手段的一个最好的途径。

Vision. The courtyard scene is also a vision.
When you see a beautiful building standing in the beautiful countryside, please do not be too hasty to mention what has been given up for the Zen, which has become a cliché, or recklessly defined as merely an architectural style. Zen is not a superficial word, but requires more serious understanding and criticism, so as to give these lives more deserved respect.
Sitting in the yard, this is the most beautiful moment of "San Sa" when you no longer feel disturbed by close neighbors, when you can enjoy the stars again, when you are able to sit still in one place but forget about the time.
远景。院景，也是远景。
当一看到乡村美景里矗立着一幢美好的建筑时，请不要太草率的立刻就提及放弃了什么，为了什么的千篇一律的禅意，也请不要再鲁莽的定义这是什么什么风格的建筑。禅，不是一个表象的词语，也请各位读者能够严肃的去理解和批判，这样才给了这些生命更加应得的尊重。
坐在院子里，当你不再觉得被这么亲近的邻居干扰，当你可以再次享受星空，当你竟然可以忘记时间却还坐在原地的时候，这就是“三卅”最美的时刻。

SpontaCeity
A Maximum of Activities and A Minimum of Architecture
[Tentative English name, Sponta-city, SpontaCeITY, or SpontaCeity, meaning “Spontaneity” + “City,” “Spontaneous City”]
[Tentative Chinese name，meaning + Living before Building]

Chengdu is unique among the vast pool of Chinese cities; it exuberates an exceptional liveliness and vibrancy. The citizens in Chengdu are masters of space-making: the figure and ground of the city fabric, as long as the lines between in and out, manmade and natural, are vigorously blurred by the locals.

Indoor and outdoor spaces are used indiscriminately. A section of tree-canopied sidewalk, a ma-jiang table, and four stools make the best recreational space. People move around furniture, objects of human-scale and at users’ disposal, to create informal outdoor “rooms,” layering a new iteration of openness to enclosed buildings, boldly manifesting a certain degree of indifference to the form or envelope of built structures, that makes them to be used more freely than one would expect.

The city, in its core, is shaped by its people. The exceptional vibe calls for a rethink over the role of architect and architecture in the phenomenon, leading to us renouncing the architect’s obsession with precision of control, and aiming for a type of architecture that does not restrict freedom of action, the freedom of movement that characterizes both contemporary culture and Chengdu spirit.

Thus, the SpontaCeity, a spontaneous field. It speaks to you all the possibilities of what you can do, instead of telling you what you shall do. The empowerment of users asks for a maximum of activities and a minimum of architecture: “Where there is nothing, everything is possible. Where there is architecture, nothing (else) is possible.” (Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau)

In order to stimulate pro-activity, sponsor autonomy, and promote the chance of serendipitous emergence, building is reduced to its very elemental form. Door, as the most interactive, the most respectful of human will and actions, and the most human-scaled among all the architectural elements, becomes the strategy of organizing space and channeling activities. The envelope, including roof, floor and wall, becomes an on/off mechanism that lags wills and motions, imposing no constraints over. As a result, building is dissolved to an interface, and the multitude of interfaces creates “a directed field within which multiple activities unfold.” (Stan Allen) This field functions simultaneously as one building and many buildings, vibrating between autonomy and connectivity.

Programs are reconfigured according to three categories of actions and interactions: the wonderous, the ponderous, and the amalgamational. They are strategically placed and mixed to provoke intense and positive reaction in people, not by physically pushing one against the other, but by devising the link while maintaining comfortable social distance.

Eventually, what we want to propose for Chengdu, a city with such endogenic power of space-making, is Measured Chaos or, in other words, Deliberative Spontaneity. The strategy, as we believe, transfers the city’s spirit at the center to its newly established frontier, promising an ideal future that is deeply rooted in the collective.

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We confronted the task of planning a Panda Theme Park within the natural preserved area of panda. The innate tension between the manmade and the natural, as long as the intrusive and the respectful, posed a deeper quest for the purpose of this piece of negotiated nature. At the intermediate zone between human settlement and natural habitat, the land has every potential to be an “infomediary” between people and nature, not only raising public awareness of this endangered species and its threatened haven but also generating earnest empathy and true understanding.

A very early on stance we took was the type of presence panda assumes. To use it as a symbol or an icon is a simple but shallow gesture. To encircle wild pandas within and to create a pseudo-natural habitat with protected human tracks seemed like a creditable and eco-friendly way to go; yet, the extreme sparse distribution of wild panda (0.072 panda per square kilometer according to 2015 panda census) renders this merely wishful, if not forcing. The solution also runs against the rule of ecological intervention, when it carves out the animals’ life resource instead of contributing to it.

“Panda” represents a way of living very integrated with and dependent upon the environment. The species migrates both vertically and horizontally from mountain tops and ridges to valleys and creeks, when they are sensitive to the seasonal and diurnal changes of wind, water, moisture, sound, light, and smell. Its specific relationship with and experience of nature are unknown to most.

By creating paths as non-intrusive extension of human settlement and strategically placing nodes of manmade structures within several selective natural conditions, the proposal puts visitors in the “shoes” of panda without enclosing either pandas or their habitat. One would experience walks on tree tops and nights in caves, feeling the wind, water, moisture, sound, light, and smell, engaging nature in ways sublime and humble.

The visitor center marks the entry. At the foot of the undulating hills, it peels off from the ground, revealing two slits of light to visitors approaching from the adjacent town, yet merging into the landscape while being looked back from the mountains.

By the first turn of the creek, one finds a field of canopies intermixed into the baldachins of trees. The manmade and the natural collectively form the resting space. Patches of shade and pockets of sunlight dance around through the day.

When the path leads further into the wild, translucent poles flank and direct the way. They grow denser when crossing the creek and taller when the road is steep. Some time they become lights and other framing views. Echoing woods and bamboos, they mark, guide and protect but never shut off.

At the end of the creek floats a cable car station. The station provides a panoramic view of the creek behind, the cliffs, and the forest beyond. It barely touches the cliffs to its sides, and the flat disk shape never obstructs the wind in the valley; with such strong presence, it still maintains permeability. From this point, one can choose to continue hiking or to take the cable cars - the buoyant and covert bubbles that float through waving leaves.

Cabins for overnight stays are the most grounded ones, partially buried in the earth and entered from the roof terrace. They distribute across a gentle slope on the mountaintop, each only accessible through private path. Opaque along one axis and transparent along the other, they are a section of the cave, providing scenic views and privacy at the same time.

The spa center hides behind a mountain ridge. At the remotest corner on site, visitors lose the last trace of city. The balconies climb up fog and weave through tree tops; at this unusual height, one experience the changes in moist, light, air pressure, and smell, not unlike the ones felt by pandas.

On the way downhill, one could easily spot the observatory rising from a peak, like three clusters of trees. The “trees” prop up platforms of varied elevations, granting optimum and comprehensive views to the exiting panda base on site, the mountains, the plateau, and the city at distance.

It would be doomed to presume that putting panda in front of people’s face automatically engenders empathy and promotes understanding. More powerful approaches appeal to emotion and sensation. Thus, why not pursue this seemingly peculiar strategy: to hide the objective panda in order to bring about the subjective panda? Paths lead people into the realm and life experience of panda, when nodes amplify the natural conditions and corresponding sensations.

Living panda is knowing panda. A Panda Theme Park is not necessarily full of pandas. Let human be the protagonist and panda as a paradigm! It shall respect its environment, being not merely entertainment but also a dose of sensational vaccine that influences action.

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Otoro, the most desirable part from under-belly inside the tuna, with exquisite marbling will just practically melts in your mouth. The design inspiration comes from a burst of taste, to a burst of different sensations. Using curved elements and red paint as the main design element to represent the texture of tuna’s fat and meat. Layers of topological form on the ceiling extend to both sides of the space like a linear spatial movement through nature. Fabrics extend to the wall, which become the decorative elements to highlight the central dining area, while curved wood elements extend to the other side, to become the partition of private room corridor, and also function for wine display. Two different materials of curved elements are rising a contract in the space while providing an extraordinary narrative spatial experience.

The overall finishing using grey as base to correspond to the tuna-liked ceilings and wall. The light belts placed above the curved elements illuminates the whole ceiling gently and uniformly; with spotlights on each table to illuminate the food, customer will feel a more multi-sensory experience brought by the carefully designed space when enjoying the feast of tuna.

The entrance and dining area are separated by translucent elements to still keeping a certain level of visual connection. The slender entrance area is painted white and applied with multiple layers of same curved material, giving the whole space facade a Japanese sense of privacy and narrative. The wooden furniture also provide a comfortable feeling while enjoying the pleasure of food.

Doraya, a brand of bluefin tuna restaurant is popular in Hong Kong. The first Doraya Isakaza located at Mudanyuan Station, centre of Haidian District, is a new spot dedicated to having fresh, daily imported bluefin tuna in Beijing.

新鲜的吞拿鱼油脂分布均匀，如雪花般洒落，在味蕾被大腹激发的那一刻，白纹里的油脂在口中绽放与粉色的肌色重构出一种抽象而美妙的感官体验，而餐厅整体设计希望把这种味蕾上的跳动转化为更具象的空间感受。整体天花以悬挂的曲线设计及红粉色的喷涂勾勒出自然生长的纹理，层层叠加的拓扑形态使顾客在就餐区不同的地方阅读到不同的空间深度。悬挂曲线设计如同自然中的轴向运动向空间两侧延伸，在一侧，和纸延伸到墙面，成为装饰性更强的设计点亮整个中心就餐区，而弯曲木材延伸到的另一侧，成为私人包间走廊隔断，同时承载酒品展示的功能。两种不同曲面材料的运用不单带来了空间的对抗性，更因为其不同功能带来特别的叙事序列，使餐厅在不同材料、尺度、密度的变化中达到和谐的状态。

餐厅整体饰面以灰色为基底，与彩色的天花及墙面装饰性设计和喷涂相称.安置在天花上的灯带透过悬挂材料匀质的照亮整个天花，各个餐桌上所配搭的射灯照亮食物，让每个顾客在享受味觉盛宴的时候也能感受到精心设计的空间带来的多重感官体验。

入口与就餐区域利用半透明渐变玻璃进行分割，细长的入口区域喷涂成全白并赋予多层的柔软和纸材料，给予整个空间以及原本开放的立面一种日式的隐秘和叙事感。软装搭配木色为主家具，让人更加舒适的享受美食带来的愉悦。

Doraya来自于香港最热门的日料餐饮集团，其菜单提供以蓝鳍吞拿鱼为主的菜肴。北京首家三雫Doraya位于海淀区交通中心地铁牡丹园站，是一个专供享用每日进口新鲜蓝鳍吞拿鱼的美食空间。

In this town with few vehicles on the streets, alongside the interlaced alleyways are series corridors and verandas formed by long overhanging eaves, under which people find their shelter to gather to have tea and play cards. This kind of relaxed and tranquil lifestyle is unique to the not enclosed but rather open west Szechuan Courtyards.
In order to remain the intrinsic cultural context and street texture of this ancient town, and to effectively adapt to modern ways of living, we use the original footprint of the demolished buildings as a start point to form an organism that is based on memory, and to reproduce the scale and intimacy of the original courtyard and alleys.
By adopting a more contemporary approach, we provide this ancient town with a self-grow ability. Within this organism, various living atmospheres and activities will slowly take root. This form of controlled voluntary generation will be freely explored and built by future occupants. 
The design goal starts with the overall area planning, aims to give a new ecology of courtyard life to Qionglai. As a small fragment of the entire organism, the selected site adjacent to the Wang’s Family house in the north and Wenmai Lane in the south, focuses on the comparison of old and new courtyard and alley spaces. The reclaimed building materials reinterpret the history of the town and adds a layer to the palimpsest.
The new “courtyard” will be presented as a fluid space that connects yards, alleys, terraces, porches and verandas and can accommodate various functions of today and in the future.

Xiong'An Railway Station was designed as a large-scale mobility hub within the Master plan for the City of Xiong'An, Hebei Province.

"The station will serve as the infrastructural heart of the future expansion of the city.

The proposed new station is defined by the distinctive wave-shaped urban topography, which offers protection from the extreme weather by means of a distinctive canopy.
Extensive facilities for express trains, regional trains and the local tram are located underground on several levels.
The different platforms, ticket counters and waiting areas, retail areas and restaurants are located around the centrally located "Valley of Light", an unmistakable urban intervention that represents different patterns of movement in and through the city."

It also challenges the existing security system within the current social context and reimagines the circulation at typical mobility hubs where the time and the emotion of the greet and the farewell are re-given.

The master plan was created by Pesch & Partner (PPAS) in collaboration with Rainer Schmidt Landscape Architects.
The work of the Railway Station was conceptually designed by haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 and performed by the Shanghai office under the leadership of Hanxiao Liu, Luis Ricardo and llLab..

-Why We Renovated the Two Farmer’s Houses

When the client asked us to do the renovation of the farmer’s houses, we had already collaborated on two projects in this provincial region near the outskirt of Beijing, one a boutique hotel and the other a hotpot restaurant. They approached with a vision of forming a building network and influencing beyond.

The story shall start with the hotpot restaurant. Before, the relationship between the locals and incomers had been quite awkward. The natives assumed that the citified looked down on them, showing hype-consciousness to extraneous developments and imposed aesthetics, while the outsiders consequently felt that the villagers were not welcoming.

Nevertheless, after the opening of hotpot restaurant, the prejudices and misunderstandings between the two groups, to our surprise, started to be mediated. It seems that the place establishes a common ground between the two. For the villagers, it is the new marker well-incorporated with their daily life, one that is nostalgic and representative of the village’s essence; for the outsiders, it is the space to experience the vernacular. The two share a similar degree of admiration from two very different perspectives.

Later, San Sa Boutique Hotel broke ground. Inviting local people to tightly involve in the process of construction and training them to work in house, the project further bridges the gap. From these two cases, the client saw an opportunity to form a bigger network of intervention and desired to make one step further in connecting the locals with incomers.

Coincidently, at that time some villagers intended to rent out part of their houses. The client seized the opportunity and planned to rent these houses and to renovate them as homestay with the owners still living in, a gesture potentially forming a closer relationship between the urban and the rural.

-Sharing Space under A Walnut Tree

It has to root itself in the soil of its surrounding situation, forge a unique identity. Yet in order to take part in common impression, it is necessary at the same time to share the living culture we have now.

The house had just been renovated by the owner with his own choice of material and style, who would regret if the brand-new glass windows and shiny colorful ceramic tiles were to be discarded. Nevertheless, travelers have their own expectations of a scenic countryside such as red bricks and grey roof tiles, reminiscent to a nostalgic past rather than to the extant condition subject to the progress of industrialization.

The mismatch requested us to explore the feasibility of mediating the aesthetic discrepancy without compromising either side - we indeed did not want to condescendingly impose an urban imagination of the vernacular. Firstly, we attempted to maintain the existing ceramic tiles but break, remix, and retile to form a new pattern. The new trencadis walls, though in their original material and color, express a more rustic charm. Then, by a small intervention of changing and emphasizing the color of the entrance curtain and stair of each room, guests get a better sense of owning his or her own space.

Both the exuberant and outgoing character of the owner and the courtyard house’s open composition define itself as an extrovert locale suited growing into an inclusive shared space, facilitating a lifestyle of gathering and discourse, as the one of ancient literati - conversing in the countryside under a simple thatched house open to views. We increased the area of public space and organized the programs for better communication, between owner vs. visitor, visitor vs. visitor, and visitor vs. landscape.

On the other hand, more sharing not necessarily leads to better spatial quality，while maintaining a sense of privacy is a prerequisite for the enjoyment of gathering. When the space is too large, emptiness nullifies the purpose of sharing; when the space is overly small, it will be crowded and noisy, making the experience uncomfortable.

For not forcing the lifestyle, we provide three different types of gathering space with different scale, degree of privacy, and spatial quality, so that one always finds his or her comfort spot. The indoor multi-purpose kitchen for the ones who enjoys cooking and chatting. When the interior can be easily privatized, the outdoor courtyard is more communal and gives chance for people to relish the fresh air of countryside. The roof top features a holistic view of the Great Wall unattainable from the ground. These three shared spaces give people the chance to meet new friends with different themes to start a conversation.

-Why We Renovated the Two Farmer’s Houses

When the client asked us to do the renovation of the farmer’s houses, we had already collaborated on two projects in this provincial region near the outskirt of Beijing, one a boutique hotel and the other a hotpot restaurant. They approached with a vision of forming a building network and influencing beyond.

The story shall start with the hotpot restaurant. Before, the relationship between the locals and incomers had been quite awkward. The natives assumed that the citified looked down on them, showing hype-consciousness to extraneous developments and imposed aesthetics, while the outsiders consequently felt that the villagers were not welcoming.

Nevertheless, after the opening of hotpot restaurant, the prejudices and misunderstandings between the two groups, to our surprise, started to be mediated. It seems that the place establishes a common ground between the two. For the villagers, it is the new marker well-incorporated with their daily life, one that is nostalgic and representative of the village’s essence; for the outsiders, it is the space to experience the vernacular. The two share a similar degree of admiration from two very different perspectives.

Later, San Sa Boutique Hotel broke ground. Inviting local people to tightly involve in the process of construction and training them to work in house, the project further bridges the gap. From these two cases, the client saw an opportunity to form a bigger network of intervention and desired to make one step further in connecting the locals with incomers.

Coincidently, at that time some villagers intended to rent out part of their houses. The client seized the opportunity and planned to rent these houses and to renovate them as homestay with the owners still living in, a gesture potentially forming a closer relationship between the urban and the rural.

-A Private Journey

“A boundary is not that at which something stops, but the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing.” -Martin Heidegger

The courtyard house has two units, one more traditional and the other modern. The former one was disused and full of waste, and the latter in use by the owner’s family. The layout of the comparatively new construct was rather chaotic: there was no convenient indoor bathroom and no clear division of different functions within the house. For the design of both units, we proposed no structural change to lower the budget. Yet we cleaned up the interior and rearranged the functional programs in order to provide the guests with efficiency, privacy, and freedom of use.

The exterior of the two units reflected a change of style in the Chinese rural over the past few decades. The traditional one had unique blue window frames and red brick walls, and the contemporary one rough concrete. We decided to keep the distinct brick façade and to add a new red brick face over the rough concrete wall, with special patterns designed according to the outside view.

This very house locates further in the mountain, and the host did not want to cross the guests every so often; a separate path was used to access the tenants’ yard. These conditions characterize this house as an introvert one, targeting the group who enjoys one’s own space. As a result, the scheme divides up the originally open and homogeneous lot into three sub-yards with different introvert qualities.

Besides solid walls, we introduce softer space dividers such as undulating landscape, parapets, seats, and trees, creating semi-private outdoor area for each guest room. The space dividers do not intersect at the same point; instead, they rotate in a way to form an interstitial space with a possibility of serendipitous encounter.

Although the three sub-yards lean against each other, sense of privacy is achieved through careful control of views and curation of foreground and background objects including the landscaping in the yard and the Great Wall at distance. The high and low slopes form both outdoor and indoor landscape, providing viewpoints of different height, granting a spatial experience only activated through wandering, and establishing a gradience field of privacy and openness. Finding your own little space in the invisible boundaries and discovering your fellow travelers in a tangible separation – this is what we hope to achieve in the end.

“The search of organized space in the measured and sensible line from what exists and what is dream.”

“The Architecture inhabits the liminal space between memory, dream and reality.”

“Redefining the traditional idea/ form of barriers between spaces in order to create a catalyst for social, cultural and knowledge exchange”

“An attempt to use organized space as the media to probe the extent of social interaction and isolation under the context of collective residency”

“Finding your own little space in the invisible boundaries and discovering your fellow travelers in a tangible separation.”

“To insulate is to associate, the physically and mentally reframing boundaries provides a field for visitors to recognize visitor's perception of neighbor, (in order to create a catalyst for social, cultural and knowledge exchange).”

Being situated in Beigou Village, Huairou, at the foot of the Mutianyu Great Wall, Beijing, such a space, seems to have much broader meaning than what it is being called.

A profitable extension of a newly constructed village resort, a more proactive and urbanized manner of communication emerged in the village, a sweet integration of originally contrasting life styles, an unprecedented cultural renaissance, a hint of the rural areas of China starting to be sliced apart as how it happened in the cities, or it is merely a space for food?

It is ambiguous as a space that the potential attributes of it may far exceed what it intended to achieve, in the culturally transitional period of a country that itself is uncertain about its own identity and the value of it.

Superficially, this is a place reconstructed and transformed from a farmer’s home kitchen to a restaurant that serves the traditional Beijing hotpot which is one of the most typical representation of the Old-Beijing-Culture, however, the location, the historical background and how the space has been designed and constructed, make any of its given names imprecise, unless being very general.

At such particular moment, when the pursuit of design becomes increasingly visible which makes China seem to be probably still one of the best places to experiment, the opportunities in the urban areas continue to shrink. The conflict between the booming eagerness to create utopian architecture in China and the dramatically decreasing demand, shifts the possibilities to imagine, from where architects in China are familiar with to where are interestingly considered as places that architects are only emotionally attached to.

As a result, all relevant creations which are meant to be the revival of certain types of culture or the sensitive reaction to particular kinds of social movements turn out to be repetitively numb and senseless.

Then what exactly is the place designed for?
It is a place that has been reconstructed and transformed from a farmer’s home kitchen to an Old-Beijing hotpot restaurant, which consists of six types of spatial qualities that accommodate a variety of activities that are possibly not either spiritually or formally capable of being associated.

There is a specific desired program, yet, it will be less numb if it makes people feel reluctant to define. 

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The project “Stone Village and the Hidden Hotspring” started ten years ago. The owner’s original intention was to save only several houses in his deserted home village in order to retrieve childhood memories once enjoyed. Later, inspired by experts of village construction who activate ancient villages by art, the idea was extended to then also revive the wider ravine lands. This 6-kilometer-long, 36-square-kilometer mountainous area is the southern ravine of Liang’s Town, where 9 deserted villages are located along 5 branching ravines. “Stone Village and the Hidden Hotspring” is meant to redefine one of these villages named Denghua Village. The sense of mission in this project has become more profound, as the personal nostalgia emotion is extended to local cultural preservation. It witnesses the exploration of a practical approach to the revival and sustainable development of rural area.
Rural China should not be labeled as poverty. Building a more beautiful and sustainable village is an important attempt to explore the path of China's economic transition and rural reconstruction. The activation of village should be based on agriculture, encouraging original farmers to return while introducing new farmers, and adhering to the concept of “building the countryside more like countryside”. It then becomes important to retain the texture of village, being sympathetic to what lay there before. “Stone Village and the Hidden Hotspring” will become a land of promise in the northern countryside, through the theme of “three types of enjoyments”. These refer to the host enjoying rural charm with the guests and the new farmers, guests and new farmers enjoying the shared space and the enjoyment in private spaces. In integrating the three types of rural experience into surrounding landscape and architecture, a village with a history of thousands of years will be subtly allied with the cultural spirit and natural charm of the project, bringing about a new lifestyle of the countryside and so strengthening the village’s potential capacity to keep up with the times.
Design of the architecture and space first provides a platform for retrospecting the value of history, bringing the tools and daily necessities that have been left in memory back “home”; secondly, it creates new space for new rural lifestyle. This combination preserves the impress of rural life while providing a possibility of flexible use. In realizing this, the stages of construction can be summarized as: preservation of the site, reconstruction with recycled materials, and new construction with new materials.
The central area of the project is regarded as the living room of the owner, providing space for public events and shared lifestyles; in the hidden woods and mountains, a quiet experience of seclusion is available. Landscape and natural spring water will also run through the entire site to show the three elements of new rural life, that is, “woods”, “hidden” and “spring water”. Stepping on the familiar slate tiles paved path, accompanied by the stars at night and the birds in the morning, the summer stream and the white snow in winter, people feel that they are integrated with the village and nature.

In the beginning, was just a thought,
an intent to trace

We ought to travel far, away from noises of the city;
we might stay close, by the humming of past tales.

Is it a place, a person, or a point in time,
that makes us falter?

At times, what is now the past, may still linger,
longings to return do not justify the initial departure.
Some change and others perpetually remain;
but do not look back,
the wondrous, even unnoticed, is right here.

We smile and we laugh, as happiness is around the corner,
we then sit at door steps,
surveying the vast landscape;
by turning off lights,
we face a splendid sky.

[OCCASION] every heartbeat; each continuum.
[SITE] foot of a mountain, edge of the ancient walls;
morning cloud, mid-day sun, evening breeze.

So we strip off the unnecessary,
to step into a space as plain as each basic emotion;
to relish in the lavishness of simplicity.

Out there, blue sky, fresh air,
all that we need, nothing else.

[NARRATIVE] it is about beauty, a return to innocence.

After all nothing is inherent;
it takes place when shared,
joy, the incipience of meaning.

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LEO digital network has been the top digital agency in Chinese network with digital marketing services from media to creative to e-commerce to mobile to the smart TV sector, locally and even globally.
The network agency has approximately 600 employees (mostly between 20-30 years of age) and a client list including international heavy hitters and local start-ups, such as Coca Cola, Pepsi, Starbucks, Costa, Lindt, Michelin, Suntory and all other globally well-known and leading companies.

As a role model in the creative industry of China who has been consistently searching for new ideas and vitalized by young blood of the New Chinese generation, the restructuring of the company also brought an opportunity to creating a refreshing new image and taking the company culture to a completely new level.

Transparency
All meeting spaces and offices have been separated by using clear glass to allow natural light to be brought into the deep work space as a critical part of the design concept, to share, the space, the light and the purity of creativity.
Meanwhile, it is to challenge the controversial term “transparency” in a stereotypically understood Chinese working hierarchy.
The transparent, only separation between spaces become functional interfaces where meeting notes, brainstorming ideas to be written on, essentially omitting all boundaries and integrates all spaces.

Materiality
The tone of the entire space is designed to be raw to depict the creation process of ideas.
Reflective concrete finishing has been applied to the entire open work space to reflect outdoor light to the inside.
Ceiling is treated using concrete paint resembling the floor finishing, thus the lighter concrete finishing on the walls and columns dramatically brightens up the space and merges into the transparent clear glasses extending the space to the outside.

Offices, meeting spaces and shared meeting points are highlighted using solid wood as “the ‘accent’ painted on the raw canvas”, giving a buffering and slower rhythm into the movement and providing transitional zones into the spaces.

Creative atmosphere (open and communicative space)
Shared and communicative areas between teams in the office are simply created by different arrangement of furniture, therefore, reconfigures the pattern of movement.
Coffee areas, shelves with books, drinks, plants in a variety of scales are carefully placed, illuminated by raw, industrial street-lamp like lighting, making the space as multi-functional as library, cafe and bar, a place where the new generation appreciates the most, where idea exchange is facilitated and encouraged in an unnoticeable manner, proactively challenging the conventional way of working.
At night, the lights resemble the stars in the sky, breaking the boundary of the space, continuing limitlessly into the realm of imagination.

Making and Design process
To confront the impetuousness and ostentatiousness of the current social phenomenon in China, llLab. intentionally challenges the design process. Numerous of samples and assembly iterations have been conducted on site. Office walls are constructed by designers, construction workers and the end users together to realize and optimize the functional and aesthetic desires based on individual demands, e.g. office walls as book shelves, drink collection display, green wall etc.
Meeting rooms, where all patterns were conceptually sketched and handcrafted on site, while having their own characteristics, the foldable glass doors in between could be opened up generating one or multiple event spaces. Meeting room tables are made as part of the timber floor, then lifted up as the tables, which visually makes the meeting spaces more spacious and purer.
The whole design and construction process took only less than three months before the employees move in. The construction site served as an experimental workshop, designers from LLLAB and the constructors work closely together conducting tests on materials, finishing, lighting etc., realizing an intimate and honest ‘human-scale’ experience.

The Dragon Skin Pavilion is a robotically fabricated temporary pavilion, installed at the University of British Columbia. The pavilion is the result of a workshop hosted by the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP), which took place from October 5-9, 2019. The workshop was led by Assistant Professor David Correa of the University of Waterloo, Oliver David Krieg of Intelligent City, and SALA Associate Professor AnnaLisa Meyboom. This experimental structure is assembled without any metal fasteners, drawing inspiration from Japanese and Chinese building traditions. The pavilion is composed of an elastically bent grid shell structure that is connected and held in place by structural shingles. These shingles, held in place by wooden dowels, act as strong moment connections by restricting the potential rotational movement of the passing grid shell members. The shingles also provide cover from the rain. Traditional Japanese and Chinese wood joinery have a long history of skillfully crafting wood-to-wood joints that are not only highly functional, but artistically expressive as well. The skills necessary for this work, while still practiced today, have not been prevalent for over a century due to the mechanization of production and standardization of components. Using robotics, highly articulated and performative joints can once again be fabricated. The Dragon Skin Pavilion demonstrates the new capabilities of the technology to develop innovative material applications that harness the unique properties of wood to animate public spaces.
Fabricated and assembled over 3 days, the pavilion is an adaptable design-to fabrication system that can be customized to suit local material availability and fabrication tools. Each workshop participant is provided with the tools and skills required to develop a unique version that can better meet their needs. Built using the state-of-the-art eight-axis industrial robot at CAWP, the pavilion demonstrates how old materials and new technologies can reshape our built environment.

Design & Development
David Correa
University of Waterloo: uwaterloo.ca/architecture/people-profiles/david-correa
llLab – Design Laboratory: www.lllab.net
Oliver David Krieg
Intelligent City: www.intelligent-city.com
odk.design: www.odk.design
AnnaLisa Meyboom
UBC SALA: sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/annalisa-meyboom

UBC Project Leads
Jason Chiu
Jörn Dettmer
UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing: http://cawp.ubc.ca/
Dean Gregory
Campus and Community Planning
David Gill
UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program

Built by
Student Participants:
Emilia Brasdefer
Shirley Duong
Thomas Foster
Ellen Harper
Shabaan Khokhar
Alexandra Ianoul
Ho Yun Law
Yiguan Li
Samuel Shulman
Ethan Schwartz
Yekta Tehrani
Angela Wen
Colin Willaims

Industry Participants:
Blair Birdsell - Equilibrium Engineering
John Boys - Nicola Logworks
David Girard - Peak Ventures
Vicente Hernandez - Universidad de Concepcion
Kyle Malinsky - Fraserwood Industries Ltd.
Jinsu Park - KPMB Architects
Jason Skladan - Skladan Design
Stuart Wylie - East Fraser Fiber

Teaching Assistants:
Lys Hermanski
Sarah Klym
Derek Mavis

Funding
Forest Industry Innovation
This project is a collaboration between students, staff, faculty, and external partners as part of UBC’s
SEEDS Sustainability Program

Filmed and Edited by Shabaan Khokhar
Photos by David Correa and Shabaan Khokhar

Flexible architecture is an experimental research for creating new space quality. From the traditional architectural point of view building must be rigid and heavy for protecting human beings from natural environment.
But now due to the advancement of technology, such as material development and invention of computational tools, architecture can be made flexible.
For example, we can use relatively soft materials for generating complex geometry. Or, we can simulate the behavior of Materials precisely so that the choices for the architectural materials becoming more and more. We can even manipulate the material performance by controlling the microscopic composition of materials.
Currently, the scale of flexible architecture is mainly researched in scales of pavilions or interior designs, but how the flexibility of materials and forms changes the quality of the space can be evidently observed.

The Wander Wood Pavilion is a robotically fabricated temporary installation at the University of British Columbia Campus. The pavilion is the result of the Robot Made: Large-Scale Robotic Timber Fabrication in Architecture workshop, hosted by SALA and UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing from October 13-17. The workshop was led by David Correa of the University of Waterloo, Oliver David Krieg of LWPAC, and SALA professor AnnaLisa Meyboom.

Fabricated and assembled over three days, the pavilion is conceived as an adaptable design to fabrication system that can be customized to suit local material availability and fabrication tools. Each participant is provided with the tools and skills to develop a unique version that can better meet their local needs. Built using the state-of-the-art eight-axis industrial robot at CAWP, the pavilion demonstrates how old materials and new technologies can reshape our built environment.

Starting with computational tools for parametric design, structural principles for wood construction, robotic CNC milling and digital workflow management, participants were provided with a unique insight into the new opportunities and challenges of advanced design to fabrication processes for timber structures. Parametric design and robotic fabrication are disruptive new technologies in architecture that allow us to build high performance structures of unprecedented formal complexity. Wood is a natural partner for these technologies because of the ability to easily mill and shape it with robotically controlled cutting tools. Wood is also highly sustainable – not only is it a renewable resource but it also stores carbon – making it one of the most sustainable building materials in the world.

This experimental structure demonstrates the new capabilities of the technology to develop innovative material applications that harness the unique properties of wood to animate public spaces.

Design & Development
David Correa
University of Waterloo
llLab. – Design Laboratory

Oliver David Krieg
LWPAC +IC
odk.design

AnnaLisa Meyboom
UBC SALA

UBC Project Leads
Jason Chiu
Jörn Dettmer
UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing

Dean Gregory
Campus and Community Planning

David Gill
UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program

Student participants
Zahra Asghari
John Chan
Selina Chau
Jessica Chen
Alex Floyd
Kemeng Gao
Junting He
Emily Kazanowski
Haobo Liu
Jia Liu
Bryn Martin
Jenna Ratzlaff
Theo Van Vugt
Trevor Vilac
Bahar Ziraknejad

Industry participants
Ivan Antoniw
Tony Bojarsky
Nelson Brito
Aiden Carruthers
Jamie Connolly
Andrew Drakeford
Mahdiar Ghaffarian
Elton Gjata
Michael Hiebert
Marco Kneifel
Mori Kono
Yehia Madkour
Sindhu Mahadevan
Logan Mohr
Nariman Mousavirad
Dai Ona
Aaron Oussoren
Jason Ramelson
Mallory Stuckel
Majd Sukkarieh
Taryn Sheppard

Teaching Assistants
Stuart Lodge
Derek Mavis

Funding

Forest Industry Innovation

This project is a collaboration between students, staff, faculty, and external partners as part of UBC’s SEEDS Sustainability Program

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Jury Comment:
llLab. is developing a unique approach to architecture, through careful research about contemporary life and the different contexts found across vast China, developing a unique new identity for Chinese architecture.

Quote from Archdaily

"As our world evolves at an unprecedented pace, the challenges that come with it are becoming more and more complex. The questions faced by the cities and networks of our global world, the physical and virtual environments where our evolution takes place, are making architecture more relevant than ever.

The issues of the built environment are no longer exclusive to the incumbents who build and design it and have become transversal questions in our society. From the citizens who question the quality of their public spaces to the self-trained builder erecting a tiny house in the woods, to the homeowners using an app to codesign their interiors during lockdown, we want to have a saying and we want to take action. Why does architecture have to be so uncertain, so distant?

The need for change, combined with the rapid digitalization of our industry, has put architecture on the verge of a big revolution, and we believe that the diverse types of practices selected as part of the 2021 ArchDaily New Practices generation are catalysts of this change.

You will find their work inspiring and reflective (WHAT they do), and their models of association and engagement innovative (HOW they do it), but what sets them apart is their commitment to being an active player on the evolution of architecture: WHY they do it.

We are also excited to announce three companies in the buildtech sector, startups that are addressing the question of scalability in architecture. Thanks to technology they make architecture accessible, open, and closer to the communities and individuals that want to engage with it.

We will showcase their work and open a window into their WHY, through a series of in-depth articles coming in the next months."

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Marissa Duplex Apartments

GROWING FROM TRADITION
In our opinion, good modern architecture needs to be linked to history. It needs to respond to given circumstances rather than impose oneself upon them. It needs to look at the past and the tradition of building in a certain part of the world. And it needs to understand WHY things were designed a certain way in order to function. In this particular case, in the harsh climate of Saudi Arabia, we drew inspiration from traditional Arabian settlements.

RAMMED EARTH
Buildings were made from local materials like mud and clay, they were made solid to withstand the scorching heat, while keeping the interior cool. Openings were as big as they needed to be. These buildings seemed to have grown straight out of the underlying soil. Using rammed earth gives us the opportunity to improve upon this traditional building technique. It uses the local sand as aggregate and therefore not only matches the landscape in colour, it also allows for fairly inexpensive construction as well. These buildings provide a solid plinth, that incorporate Arabian tradition in materiality and response to the environment. Atop this plinth, modern buildings are situated like jewels, encapsulating stunning views while being viewed from afar at the same time.

ZEN GARDENS
In order to create a luxurious feel in a dense urban environment, we believe the space between the buildings is as important as the buildings themselves. This would achieve the sensation of being in a luxury retreat, sat in an ocean of green. Framing views of the gardens and water features, as well as having the residents take a journey through interior and exterior spaces only enhances that.

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The Dragon Skin Pavilion is a robotically fabricated temporary pavilion, installed at the University of British Columbia. The pavilion is the result of a workshop hosted by the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP), which took place from October 5-9, 2019. The workshop was led by Assistant Professor David Correa of the University of Waterloo, Oliver David Krieg of Intelligent City, and SALA Associate Professor AnnaLisa Meyboom.