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Shenzhen Art High School / O-office Architects

韩爽 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Spatial Superposition as Resolution for the Density

Luohu, as the east node of Shenzhen's linear urban development, failed to prioritize the relationship between the city and its natural environment in its early urban planning and construction. Instead, it simply and crudely implemented modern functional and transportation planning. Buildings and urban living spaces were arranged on the land according to the demands of functionality and efficiency, with nature serving only as a backdrop to the man-made city. In this process, people (regardless of individual differences such as age, identity, gender, and background) and their activities were merely functional objects of efficiency planning.

The “Old” Chaple / O-office Architects

韩爽 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0000

"Old" here is both an adjective and a verb. "Old Church" is an event about time construction. The "Old Church" is the first realised public building of Arana Jiulong Lake Comminity in Huadu of Guangzhou. The original site of is a simulated church building of a "European Town" theme park. The building locates on the south-east conner of the town and faces the mainentrance of the community. Arana hopes it will become the first spiritual symbol for the community. The original building can be regarded as a local projection of the West, and its construction began roughly fifteen years ago. How to resolve the dislocation between the history reflected by the image and its construction history has become a speculative issue in the "Church" renewal project. Therefore what the church needs to construct is not space, but time.

New Sports and Arts Centre of Hongling High School / O-office Architects

韩爽 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Under the background of rapid urbanization, standardize construction of school campuses were widely built in Shenzhen in the past 20 years. As part of “New Campus Action”, the design attempts to re-connect the campus to its natural environment, and create a new place meaning through a very logical building strategy. The design targets to use the central-location site to inter-weave a comprehensive complex that offers a wider range of spaces for cultural and sports activities, while at the same time, re-establish the circulation, communication and sharing in the campus, and create a coexistence of human and nature

Chapel of the Jinting Bay / O-office Architects

Collin Chen — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Land and Sea. Ancient China was geographically and politically centered on the mainland, the coastal areas were historically marginalized. These coastal areas, being far from the regime, gave rise to a more relaxed and diverse vernacular, and the geographical environment where land and water intersected brought about a greater sense of spontaneous and local senses. As time passes, with the expansion of the world's maritime civilization, the coastal zone gradually became the point of communication between China and foreign cultures, further enriching the physical and non-physical cultural ecology of modern coastal settlements.

(Re)forming Duichuan Tea Yards / O-office Architects

Collin Chen — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Duichuan Village once named Dui Village, got the name from the original settlement of Huangs and Xies during the Ming dynasty: these two families situated themselves on the westmost and eastmost edge of the village. Since first built and inaugurated in 1951, Duichuan Tea Yards went through three times name change till it settles with the name as it is now. The tea factory was one of the most productive tea yards in the Pearl River Delta region, the Duichuan Tea produced was in fashion for a while and got exported to Hong Kong, Macao, and Southeast Asia.

Pavilion C, Tianan Cloud Park Science and Technology Pavilion / O-office Architects

Collin Chen — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Shenzhen , as the city with the most rapid urbanization development in China - even in the world, had quickly started a new urbanization process that’s both large in scale in the manner of a mixed cities-villages of the past and intensity after it’s first urbanization process.

Shenzhen Mingde Academy / O-office Architects

罗靖琳 — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Mingde Academy is in the sense of the current education system an experimental school, which was transformed from the original Honghua Dyeing Mill, an early example of industrialization of Shenzhen, China. Covering 8 hectares, the original factory is hidden in the valley of the Shenzhen's east coast. Since the excavation of industries, the buildings in site have demonstrated a purified, unique architectural aesthetic with the passage of time.

Stone Art Gallery / O-office Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000

For the past decades, the Pearl River Delta Area (PRD) has experienced the ever fastest urbanization and grown into the so-call World Factory, producing more than 70% of the world’s daily products. Due to the large-scale urban sprawl plus the pressure from rapid industrial transition in this region, many of the former state industry were moved from the city to the outskirt of PRD.

Youth Hotel of iD Town / O-office Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Youth Hotel of iD Town, on the hilltop of the seaside valley, was originally served as one of the dormitory building in Honghua Dying Factory’s residential area, representing the settlements of the first batch of immigrant labors after the open-reform policy and industrialization that firstly took place in Shenzhen.

Hongling Experimental Primary School / O-office Architects

Collin Chen — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:00:00 +0000

High-density
High speed and high density have become synonymous with Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city in the sub-tropical coast area. The population and urban density of this hyper-city along the eastern side of the Pearl River Estuary is still booming, even after 40 years of rapid development. Living and working in super high-rises has become the daily life of the city. Leisure and even education have also been brought into the sky.

Tianhe Youth Commune / O-office Architects

罗靖琳 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, the Shadong village, where sits the buildings of this project, was erected in December 1995. The local economic corporation in the late 90s constructed on the commune’s fringe land a 4-storey warehouse leased to the Guangzhou Book Center for their new book storage.

Lianzhou Museum of Photography / O-office Architects

Diego Hernández — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Lianzhou, a small city locates in the northern mountain area of Guangdong, has witnessed the miraculous 13 consecutive years of Lianzhou International Photography Festival, one of the most important photographic art events in China. Construction of the photography museum is considered as the generator of the old downtown’s revitalization plan, and at the same time, a tribute to the city’s past. Lianzhou Museum of Photography (LMP) was chosen to build in South Zhongshan Road, which local people cordially called "Old Street", a place full of local traditions and memories.The original site is an old candy warehouse which has been the main venue for the last 12 photo festivals.

New Collectivism / O-office Architects

Diego Hernández — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Collectivism had been one of the core spirits that motivated contemporary China’s modernisation, despite its relation with politically mandatory. The current social condition of fragmentation and individualisation caused by comprehensive, rapid urbanisation has seemingly diluted that former ideology.

Work-Studio in a Plant-House / O-office Architects

Diego Hernández — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 02:00:00 +0000

This green work-studio was transformed from the central part of a vacant plant-house built hill-side facing south that used to be a warm house for flowers. An old concrete portico, covered with liana, lying in the front provides an entry pathway to the studio part. The space was designed to house a local landscape design firm.

MJH Gallery of iD Town / O-office Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Formerly the packing workshop of Honghua Dying Factory, MJH Gallery was conceptualized from (re-)structuring the spatial narratives of this vacant building. The new architectonics was independently implanted onto the original inner ground of the old workshop, which was regarded as a large open concrete pavilion, in order to build the new multi-layered spatial/time logic into the industrial relic.

Palazzo Zen / O-office Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

EMGdotArt Foundation in Venice is located on the ground floor of Palazzo Zen, a historical building from 1537, situated along a typical canal of the Italian lagoon city. Dealing with renovation and (re-) adaptation, the 390m² space has been converted into an art gallery featuring rooms for exhibitions, conference and meetings, including a workspace for EMGdotART Foundation.

Z Gallery / O-office Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The ID Town project originates from the abandoned Honghua Dyeing Factory, locating in Dapeng New Tourist District in Shenzhen East. The 8-hector factory finds itself surrounded by the mountain near the coast of Southern Chinese Sea. The old-temple-like workshop buildings evoke one’s impression of an Acropolis in the nature. Our design starts from this special on-site ruining atmosphere in the nature.

SZ-HK Biennale-Silo Reconversion / O-office Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Conservation of architecture is not only a matter of reserving history and physical space. Architectural renovation is also more than recycling old buildings for new functions. The reconversion of the former Guangdong Floating Glass Factory is an experiment of rediscovering the lost spatial existence and experience via architectural study on contemporary industrial relics. We expected new possibilities to architecture and urbanism can be unveiled for contemporary Chinese cities.