The Warp / Olivier Ottevaere + John Lin + The University of Hong Kong

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  • Design Team: HKU Architecture Students, Joyce Ip, Jason Chong, Tod Zhu, Yvonne Xu Meng
  • Funding: Supported by the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund and a Knowledge Exchange Grant, HKU
  • Cost: 180,000 rmb
  • City: Zhaotong Shi
  • Country: China
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Text description provided by the architects. THE WARP is a rest area and roadside market built as part of a post-earthquake reconstruction in Ludian town, Yunnan, China. Situated in an ethnically diverse region with a Muslim majority population, the project serves as a meeting point and look out along the main entry road to this mountain village. The project provides three key spaces, stepped seating area for selling fruit and produce, a wooden deck for viewing and a covered resting and eating area. Formally, the deck extends toward the scenic valley, transforming from a straight line into a sine curve. Its peaks and valleys mimic the landscape while providing two mirrored spaces (above and below) for viewing and resting.

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This is the third and final instalment in a series of timber projects for Yunnan Province: THE PINCH, THE SWEEP AND THE WARP. It is an exploration of low-cost timber construction in collaboration with a local timber workshop. Each project responds directly to its given site, trying to make best use of a single small structure to provide a maximum of community functions. Collectively the series explores the activities of buying and selling, bridging, resting, viewing, eating, reading, and playing.

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THE WARP was built with the help of first year architecture students at The University of Hong Kong and funded through a Knowledge Exchange Grant and the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund.

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Address:Alcohol Room Villagers' Committee, Jiu Zhao Duan, Ludian Xian, Zhaotong Shi, Yunnan Sheng, China

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Cite: "The Warp / Olivier Ottevaere + John Lin + The University of Hong Kong" 29 Jul 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/771023/the-warp-olivier-ottevaere-and-john-lin-plus-the-university-of-hong-kong> ISSN 0719-8884

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