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Librairie Avant-Garde at Jianhu / Atelier Deshaus

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located on a small island in Jianhu Lake, Keqiao, Shaoxing, and was originally built as a water intake facility for the local municipal waterworks. Constructed in 1992, the site originally contained six structures: a pump house, a substation, an administrative building, a staff dormitory, a water intake pier, and a cargo hoisting dock. In 2001, after a larger regional waterworks was completed, the site gradually fell into disuse. It remained abandoned until 2022, when it was reactivated within the context of local rural revitalization and cultural tourism development. After renovation, the original buildings were converted respectively into a bookstore, café, exhibition space, viewing pavilion, and boat dock, and were linked by a flat-roofed corridor system supported by slender steel columns, forming a new overall pattern of use. The once enclosed island, formerly dedicated to municipal maintenance and technical management, was thus transformed into a public place open to visitors.

Kunshan Jinxi Senior High School / Atelier Deshaus

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Jinxi Senior High School is a public boarding high school with 48 classes (16 per grade). The project site is located in the eastern part of Jinxi Town, Kunshan. Originally a flat agricultural field, the site is divided into two parts—wider to the north and narrower to the south, roughly forming a right-angled trapezoid—by an east–west watercourse. The surrounding area consists of existing mid-rise residential neighborhoods and plots designated for future housing development.

Porcelain Source Museum / Atelier Deshaus

Andreas Luco — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:00:00 +0000

The Porcelain Source Museum is located on the former site of Longsheng Village in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province. To the north of the site are the remains of primitive porcelain kilns dating from the Shang through the Warring States periods, while a small river runs along the southern edge, spanned by the Wukang Shishe Bridge, originally constructed during the Yuan dynasty. Within the site, portions of the original village dwellings have been preserved, reconstructed, or adapted and incorporated into the museum's exhibition spaces, serving as thematic galleries or support facilities, thereby allowing elements of the site's historical fabric to be sustained. The main body of the museum is composed of two parts. One part extends longitudinally along the riverbank, adopting a rectilinear plan while presenting an overall architectural form of an organic character.

Laoyuting Pavilion / Atelier Deshaus

Andreas Luco — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Laoyuting Pavilion is one of the invited projects of the 2024 Dianchi Art Season: "Home and Future". It is located on the southern side of the Water-Forest Art Zone in the Laoyu River Wetland Park at Dianchi Lake. After its completion, it first served as the entrance to the Dianchi Art Festival, and after the festival, the pavilion was permanently preserved as a spatial hint for entering the wetland park, as well as a resting place for visitors. This wetland, filled with groves of bald cypress along the edge of Dianchi Lake, is in fact part of the city's water-purification infrastructure—the final stage of natural filtration before water enters the lake. It is home to many small fish, and city dwellers often come here during leisure time to catch fish, hence the name Laoyu River Wetland. As a pavilion where people rest while fishing, it naturally came to be known as the Laoyuting Pavilion.

Su Yuan, House and Garden / Atelier Deshaus

韩爽 — Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Dayu Village, Malu Town, Jiading District of Shanghai—an area renowned for grape production—this project occupies a former township-owned factory site that had been decommissioned for ecological reasons. In 2008, the local government initiated a rural revitalization program by repurposing such industrial land for artist studios, introducing cultural elements into the countryside. The studio of artist Yue Minjun was one such initiative. Although the building was structurally topped out in 2011, it remained vacant for years due to unforeseen circumstances. Recently, it was taken over by the local fashion brand Dazzle, which transformed it into an integrated cultural center.

Anji Creative & Design Center / Atelier Deshaus

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Situated in Xilong Township of Anji County, Zhejiang Province—an area renowned as one of China's premier white tea-producing regions—the project occupies a previously unused plot on the edge of the tea fields near the town center. Originally, the site was designated for the construction of a White Tea Museum, as well as a museum for the nearby Paleolithic archaeological site of Shangmakan. In response, the building was conceived as two courtyard-based clusters extending between tea fields and a natural pond, with green roofs designed to merge the architecture seamlessly into the surrounding agricultural landscape.

Jiangnan House Changyuan in Suzhou / Atelier Deshaus

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Jiangnan House Changyuan in Suzhou is an active endeavor of Suzhou Famous City Protection Group and Jiangnan House towards the preservation and adaptive reuse of the existing garden heritage.

The Big Barn / Atelier Deshaus

Valeria Silva — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The site of the Big Barn is within the Yu Niao Liu Su Area of Liangzhu New Town, to the west of the Liangzhu Center of Arts (the Big Roof). The long and narrow site indicates a horizontal and linear architectural volume. We hope to create here not only a spiritual architecture as a landmark but a place to accommodate diverse activities.

Taoyiqiu Memorial / Atelier Deshaus

Andreas Luco — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Tao Yiqiu was born into a wealthy landowning family in Xiajiaqiao Town (now known as the Xiaqiao Community of Lujia Town) of Kunshan. In his early years, he had done many beneficial things for his hometown. In 1939, he founded the first counter-Japanese armed force in Kunshan and sold his own land to support the resistance. In appreciation of Tao Yiqiu's deeds and contributions, a memorial hall was built in his honor in Lujia Town, Kunshan.

Upper Cloister in Aranya Golden Mountain / Atelier Deshaus

Collin Chen — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0000

At the break of dawn I wandered in the ruins of an ancient temple,
On lofty trees of the woods the morning sun cast its rays.
Following a path amongst bamboos I came to a secluded place,
Hidden deep amidst lush flowery vegetation, it used to be a chamber for meditation.
Birds by nature took delight in mountain scenes,
In the pond, a mind cleansed by the waters a lucid reflection made.
Everything gave way to silence right there and then,
Save for the tolling of bells that resonates.
An Inscription for the Rear Meditation Chamber of a Mountain Temple in Ruins, by CHANG Jian [Tang Dynasty],

Riverside Passage / Atelier Deshaus

JojoJi — Fri, 13 May 2022 06:00:00 +0000

On a coal-unloading wharf deserted for years remains a reinforced concrete wall of 90 meters long and 4 meters high. This used to be an untrodden place but was at the center of the energy supply for Shanghai. Nevertheless, since the waterfront had been occupied mostly by factories, residents nearby could hardly get to the riverside and lacked enough communal space. During the process of transforming the industrial site into public space, the existing ordinary industrial component is to serve as a significant historic aspect and a witness of Shanghai industrial civilization, to be unveiled in the new space.

Qintai Art Museum / Atelier Deshaus

韩爽 — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Qintai Art Museum is located on the lakeside of Moon Lake in Wuhan’s Hanyang District, facing Meizi Hill across the lake to the south. In order to reduce the weight of the architectural mass on the natural surface of the lake, the form of an undulating natural terrain is used in the direction of the lake, while sinking part of the exhibition spaces underground. This both uses the underground space, and also minimizes the massing on the ground. On the side facing the city road, on the other hand, a vertical facade continues to uphold architecture’s urbanity.

Xinchang Village's Central Kindergarten / Atelier Deshaus

罗靖琳 — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000

Xinchang village’s kindergarten is one of more than ten kindergartens that Open Foundation has donated to the disaster area of 2013 Lushan earthquake. Surrounded by mountains, the site is a relatively small platform in the northwest of the village. It faces a mountain gap to the west, so that people can still sense the faraway from here. The surrounding settlements, while providing shelters to the inhabitants, confronts subtly the nature that dominates.

Yunyang Riverfront Visitor Center in Chongqing / Atelier Deshaus

韩爽 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Yunyang is located in the hinterland of the Three Gorges Dam area in Chongqing, and the county sits on the southern slope of Longji Ridge north to the Yangtzi River. A visitor center was planned along the riverfront greenbelt to serve the citizens for leisure. The client wanted to fill up the small bay down the Yunyang Port and reclaim it as the site for the project. In contrast to the grand Yangtzi River, the tranquil bay has a unique landscape character. Its north, east and downstream shores are natural cliffs falling straight into the water, while the greenbelt down the bay was to be put on top of the cliff. The west and upstream shores are slopes leading into the water, currently being transformed into engineered river bank and revetment, where the greenbelt upstream will be placed in the future. According to the building scheme, the embankment construction would stretch almost straight from the upstream all the way down to the east-side cliff of the bay. The connection between the bay and the river would thus be cut off, and the bay would turn into stagnant water, if not to be filled up. As the river bank extends to the cliff, the greenbelt on the bank is still more than ten meters lower than that on top of the cliff, which also makes it difficult to bridge the two.

Tea House in Li Garden / Atelier Deshaus

尚夕云 — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 17:00:00 +0000

The Tea House is located in an approximately 110 m² little garden, where a tall paulownia stands and covers our little building under its huge crown. Before that, this small place could not be seriously called garden, for it was something residue left by two staircases connecting to the neighboring office. Therefore, how to make the Tea House occupy this space at a minimum level so as to form a garden, becomes a key point in the design process.

Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum / Atelier Deshaus

Valeria Silva — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum is situated inside the Shamen Grain Depot Cultural and Creative Park with unique historical context. Taking advantage of a large area of existing factories and warehouses in the former Soviet Union style within the park, the new project aims at reintegrating and renovating the depot park with appropriate restoration and reservation.

Shanghai Modern Art Museum / Atelier Deshaus

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Sun, 27 May 2018 02:00:00 +0000

In retrospect, the design of the Modern Art Gallery is a risky endeavor.

Artron Arts Center / Atelier Deshaus

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Artron (Shanghai) Arts Center is reconstructed from Shanghai Towel 16th Factory. The overall reconstruction is base on the principle of maximum reservation and taking advantage of original space, which is fully considered about the convenience and economical efficiency of construction. The combination of original industrial spatial scale and atmosphere with new design is another benefit of reservation in this reconstruction.