Comments on: Tulou Housing Guangzhou / URBANUS Architects by Iwan Baan

By: maartenjan

maartenjan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:34:48 +0000

Retourtje Bijlmer voor #wciiia The future is now! Hoe toepasselijk http://t.co/APjLLQWR En history repeats: http://t.co/67Be2OFF #community

By: Jan Wareus

Jan Wareus — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:22:54 +0000

Impressing – this must be what Framton called “critical regionalism”.
More of this, pls!

By: JOSEPH MAINA

JOSEPH MAINA — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:20:06 +0000

Hi !

I am currently in China ,Guangzhou and I am an Architect from Africa looking for a Chinese Architect to partner up with.Can I visit your office.If so please give me direction.

Regards

J. Maina

By: Expo2010 Shenzhen Case Pavilion / Urbanus | ArchDaily

Expo2010 Shenzhen Case Pavilion / Urbanus | ArchDaily — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:01:07 +0000

[...] Culture Plaza, the Integrated Teaching Building in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Tulou Housing Guangzhou) shared with us the design for the Shenzhen Case Pavilion inside the Italian Pavilion at the [...]

By: Constance Jacob Melo

Constance Jacob Melo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:35:36 +0000

Extraordinário projeto de habitação social na China.É baseado no conceito da Hakka House.
http://u.nu/67sp8

By: Chiaro Scuro

Chiaro Scuro — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:03:45 +0000

Just got back from Fujian Province. Saw all the Tulous.

Obviously, their will be parallels made between Bentham’s Panopticon and this design, but this might not be a bad thing. A central courtyard provides plenty of light, space, ventilation, and can allow for visual connections, keeping activity on view and acting as a deterrent for any illicit activities.

This project is ridiculous in terms of its motivations. I can understand utilizing existing typologies, and interpreting them differently, but to exhibit pictures of the original Tulous is in bad taste. The original earth dwellings have unique characteristics particular to their situations (i.e. Fortification and protection, construction technique, etc.).
In this sense, it is a copy, and not a very good one.

By: OOXX

OOXX — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:50:18 +0000

a strong spirie appear and go up from the center of the round.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:30 +0000

the most fastinating fact about this building is that it takes its’ begining in chinese traditional architecture. And what european great blury stuff is based on?! Mies or Le Corb?
Yeah, it might look like a prison, but is it bad if nearby runs huge highway with noise pollution? don’t you think you will feel yourself safetier inside of such a small and warm community than in the whatever residential open-planed and fully-glazed european development with absoliutely no sence of place?
Like it a lot.

By: sullka

sullka — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:51:10 +0000

Mr. Cheap I haven’t changed my mind ;P

I still think it’s a circular prison, yep…looks “cool”, but stills a prison.

By: Hakka Houses | stinkytofu.org

Hakka Houses | stinkytofu.org — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:20:58 +0000

[...] Source: Wikipedia Photos: Iwan Via: Arch Daily [...]

By: belly

belly — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:14:33 +0000

urbanus is changing~good job!

By: Rui Machado

Rui Machado — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:47:05 +0000

Tulou Housing Guangzhou / URBANUS
http://bit.ly/OU2NL

By: Alan Su

Alan Su — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:50:24 +0000

http://bit.ly/10UOrb
Interesting modern take on high density housing by using old-school typology!

By: imagine

imagine — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:54:53 +0000

how amazing the buiding and the case study. Chinese modern architecture is getting better and better!

By: Hale H

Hale H — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:51:10 +0000

there is a deeper layer of social issues within this typology that westerners could hardly feel and understand~
and the meaning to represent it in China’s nowaday urban society

By: Tarek sakkal

Tarek sakkal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:53:39 +0000

By: JuanLuisBurke

JuanLuisBurke — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:38:07 +0000

Well, low-income housing is a tricky thing. I mean, I look at the pictures and think to myself that I would not like to live there myself. But the real question here is, are the people moving into this building improving their quality of life or not?

It’s extremely easy to criticize low-income housing, as if poverty was a sin and an attack on good taste, but few of us have any idea of the budget restrictions on these kind of projects.
Once again, I think they did a decent job here.

By: ROSY

ROSY — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:37:28 +0000

i think this one is really great~

By: Mr. Cheap

Mr. Cheap — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:13:07 +0000

In the previous post everybody thought this was inhumane, brutal and not sensitive to the context. Funny.

By: JuanLuisBurke

JuanLuisBurke — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:10:41 +0000

Agreed, it’s a good low-income housing project, and the attempt to ground the circular plan idea from a historical architectural legacy is a valid one.
As a sidenote, the set of photos of the hakka houses is great!