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"To Emerge Naturally from the Site": Zhang Pengju on His Aga Khan Award-Winning West Wusutu Village

韩爽 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:30:00 +0000

The 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most prestigious honors in the field, celebrates projects that not only exhibit architectural excellence but also profoundly improve the quality of life for their communities. Among this year's winners is the West Wusutu Village Community Centre, a project in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, by Chinese architect Zhang Pengju. In an era when rural areas often face social fragmentation and a loss of identity, this community center offers a powerful counter-narrative.

West Wusutu Village Community Center / Zhang Pengju

韩爽 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

West Wusutu Village Community Center is a multifunctional community center constructed to address the shortage of public service facilities in the village. It has three primary functions: providing gathering spaces for elderly residents, children, and returning young villagers; creating exhibition and social spaces for artists; and addressing the religious needs of the Hui Muslim community, who are far from the main mosque.

Air Ger, Inflatable MongolianYurt / Ger Atelier

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The inspiration from traditional felt tent
The grassland gave birth to nomads, who successively took huts, tents and felt tents as their living places. All of them are movable and inclusive. The yurt, as a type of traditional felt tent, is a living building grown in the soil of nomadic culture. In the long river of history, yurts and nomads have been surviving together and adjusted to each other. Yurts is a creation that has been tested by time. The nomadic spirit and wisdom contained in it constantly provide reference and inspiration for modern life and residential space.

Des Ger -Geometric Mongolian Yurt / Ger Atelier

Collin Chen — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:00:00 +0000

With the development of society, the traditional yurt, as the carrier of grassland residence, has been unable to meet the needs of modern life. Its spatial unity and physical properties need to be improved and modified urgently. Des Ger is a light prefabricated building system designed to explore contemporary grassland residences, which is composed of prototype design, space design, and system design.

Yas Ger, Movable Mongolian Yurt / Ger Atelier

罗靖琳 — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Yas Ger is Mongolian, Yas is the meaning of skeleton, Ger is for yurts and home，which means a removable yurt (home). The project is located in a small courtyard of Young Creator Design Center, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, where small meetings, forums and salons can be held.

Hohohot East Coach Hub Terminal / CSADI A2 Studio

Collin Chen — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:00:00 +0000

In order to meet the development demand of the long-distance and rapid passenger transport on the trans-provincial highway, the Hohhot government decided to build the Hohohot East Coach Hub Terminal, which is the center of national level coach hub and the important node among the highway, railway, aviation, urban bus and other intermodal transport hubs.

Architecture Building of Inner Mongolia University of Technology / Inner Mongolia Grand Architectural Design Co

韩爽 — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The Architecture building of Inner Mongolia University of Technology is reconstructed from a former machinery factory of the university, which was used to be a practical education base, and its production was an integral part of the mainstay industry of the university. The casting workshop in the machinery factory was built in 1968, put into production in 1971. It was abandoned in 1995 due to the Industrial restructuring that gradually demolished unwanted sections. In early 2008, the university decided to reconstruct the workshop to endow it a new life.

Inner Mongolia University of Technology Expansion / InnerMongolia Grand Architectural Design

韩爽 — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The architecture building of Inner Mongolia University Of Technology was finished in 2009. It was renovated from a group of old industrial buildings in the campus. By carring the historical memory of the old industrial architecture, the building becomes an old man ever since the reconstruction work is done. Its space carries the historical memory of old industrial buildings clearly, which is an important theme of the design. Four years later, the expanding construction started in order to bring more professional classrooms to students.

Architecture Building of Inner Mongolia University of Technology / Inner Mongolia Grand Architectural Design Co.Ltd.

韩爽 — Wed, 29 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Text description provided by the architects.
At the beginning of 2010, the architecture design institute of the Inner Mongolia University of Technology decided to expand the office space, finding a new site to construct a new design building. What we were pursuing was a spiritual expression beyond physical dimension , showing the expression of space and the symbolism of the site.

Zhaojun Museum / DAQI ARCHITECTS, China Architecture Design & Research Group

罗靖琳 — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Zhaojun Museum locates 9 kilometers to the south Hohhot and 20 kilometers to Hohhot Baita International Airport. The museum was completed in August, 2017. After repeated verification and comparisons, the new site of Zhaojun Museum was eventually selected to locate at the starting point of Zhaojun Green Tomb south axis. Since the massive architecture is set at the origin of paved path and the south front of scenic spot, it will reform the site to create a new axis, and then be connected to the Zhaojun Aotsuka - built 2000 years ago in time and space.