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House Shiyangshan No. 1 / Describing Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The project is located in Wuyanquan Town, Yidu City, Yichang, which is called Shiyangshan No. 1.The site is a quiet rural area 1.5 kilometers down the national highway. Located at the foot of Shiyang Mountain, the land with mountains on the back and forests on the front is the highest point of the surrounding terrain, which has a wide view of the horizon. The owner, Mr. Xu, and his wife hope to realize their dream of escaping the city and returning to the countryside on this piece of land.Shiyang Mountain is named after the many white stones on the mountain, which resemble sheep. During the rainy season, water flows down the hills, carrying away the soil from the bottom. The exposed part of the rock, after being washed by soil and rain and weathered for years, presents different layers to muddy yellow color. However the bare rocks are not tightly together, the client tried to slowly dig out the soil between them, revealing various sizes of "gaps".

Xinzhaping Village Renewal / UP Architecture

Collin Chen — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Project Background. Located in Luxi County, Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Xinangxi, Hunan Province, Xinzhaiping Village is a village with Chinese minority characteristics, which is known as the "Museum of Chinese Ancient Trees". The village is spread out along the mountain with ancient tree groups of about 60 acres，where more than 500 trees can date back more than 100 years. The traditional houses are mostly wooden structures, mainly fir and pine, using local materials to form column and tie construction. Most of the villagers are Hmong, who have preserved a great deal of ethnic culture and traditional customs. Though this village is faced with the population loss, economic backwardness, cultural decline and other common problems that most villages face, it also has its own advantages, beautiful natural landscape, unique culture and a large number of ancient and unique construction resources. Since 2017, Sinopec has joined hands with the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to carry out "Bona Villa" rural tourism poverty alleviation public welfare project in Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Xinangxi. After Bona Villa Lahao Stone Houses project in Fenghuang County, UPA continued to carry out Xinzhaiping Renewal Practice in Luxi County, involving in the whole process design of village planning, phase II homestay and phase III public construction.

Design Communities for Children: 10 Exemplary Kindergartens in China

Scarlett Miao — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Bruce Jilk in his essay ‘Place Making and Change in learning environments” showcases a radical view of contemporary education which, he argues, is outdated and does not meet the needs of the modern world. Instead of providing for a world of individuals operating within a wider urban environment, schools have become internalized ghettos of childhood, cutting off from communities they are supposed to serve, centrally administered in a “one size fits all” ethos. Designers and architects around the world have always been seeking a more flexible architectural model which will allow much more creativity within the learning process and the environments which serve it.

Strawberry Farm Activity Hall / Describing Architecture Studio

Collin Chen — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:00:00 +0000

In Longba Town, Zhuxi County, a new municipal road "Changlong Avenue" crosses the main entrance of the original town with a 30-degree cutting angle. The triangular plot between the new municipal road and the main road of the original town is the site of Strawberry farm activity hall and picking greenhouse. The Longba town government hopes to take cultivation, picking, and related experience activities of strawberries as the new starting point of the rural economy in Longba Town, and form the entry point of rural vitality at the intersection of old and new roads.

The Hillside House / UP Architecture

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The project, which was a detached farmhouse, is located in Jizhou District, Tianjin. The client advocates the spiritual realm of Tao Yuanming, a great Chinese poet in Jin Dynasty, and especially loves his masterpiece "Back to County Life". Before the renovation, he named it “The Hillside House”, which is taken from "I’ve loathed the madding crowd since I was a boy, while hillsides have filled me with joy" in that poem.

The Renovation of Ankang Library / UUA (United Units Architects)

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Project Background: Ankang is a prefecture-level city located in the south of Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. Located in the old Ankang city, the original library was opened in 1984 and over the duration of time, the library building and its facilities have started to fall behind the fast-developing information age in terms of hardware and software, prompting a need for a comprehensive regeneration program.

Bona Villa Lahao Stone Houses / United Practice Architects

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Ancient Town of Fenghuang, located in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, is a famous historical and cultural city in China. It was once called the most beautiful town in China by New Zealand writer Rewi Alley. And it enjoys the same reputation in the south as the Ancient City of Pingyao in the north. Outside the Ancient Town of Fenghuang, there is little-known natural scenery, beautiful Miao villages, and mysterious folk culture with a long history in Miao Township. The whole village is built along the mountains, where stone houses scatter and the roads made of slab-stone wind and stretch. Surrounding trees flourish and the smoke from the kitchen curls upwards, presenting a tranquil and leisure scene like a paradise.

Renovation of the Headquaters of Yantai Marine Economic Innovation Zone / SHUISHI

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Project background: Urban renewal under industrial change
This project is located in the Yantai Development Zone on the Bohai Bay. At the initial stage, it was only a deserted beach by the sea. Since the establishment of the zone in the early 1990s, the development zone has undergone several rounds of industrial renewal and has become one of the leading areas of economic development in Shandong Province. The deserted beach has also become a mature community with urban parks and public beaches. The project itself has gone from the training building to the guest house, and has once again been upgraded to the headquarters of the scientific research office. Its overall appearance has shown new vitality as the urban industry.

Community Cultural Center, Series Projects of Xiaoshi Village Overall Planning / Studio Dali Architects

Collin Chen — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In 2017, we were invited by the village secretary to do an overall planning and a series of architectural design of Xiaoshi Village in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province. Just like other rebuilt villages after the earthquake, XIaoshi Village is facing the same difficulty in reidentifying itself with monotonous residential buildings, simple brick-concrete architecture along the street and hollowing rural community.

Yangzhong Foreign Language School Branch Campus / Perform Design Studio

Collin Chen — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Yangzhong Foreign Language School Branch Campus is located in the western suburb of Yangzhong City, Jiangsu Province. It covers an area of about 10 acres and is a newly established public junior high school with 30 classes. The site boundary is an irregular polygon defined by the surrounding existing conditions. The scheme is to arrange the required large sports field along the east side of the site. The main building, located on the middle and west part of the site, utilizes a compact learning complex mode, to minimize the building footprint and meanwhile improve the efficiency of use of each space. Through such overall space organization, we hope to emphasize the integrity of essential-quality-oriented education.

Tianyun Affordable Office / Praxis d‘ Architecture

Collin Chen — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 23:00:00 +0000

This industrial real estate development targets at private small and mid-sized research and technological enterprises to provide them with affordable office spaces at the fringe of big cities. These private enterprises, albeit non-main economic actors comparing to state-owned enterprises, are playing an essential role in building a real economy, as Chinese society has come to realize after 30 years of a booming real estate backed economy. The design applies the concept of modules to achieve budget control while offering green, flexible, and interactive office spaces that nurture creativity.

Rain House / Describing Architecture Studio

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Memory
The rolling hills in the east of Chongqing have always been a remarkable landscape, but presented serious traffic problems then. The newly constructed roads in the past 20 years successfully negotiated their way through this area and met its residents’ traveling needs.

The Peach Garden / UPA

Collin Chen — Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Location and environment
This project is located in Shihuyu Village, Jiuduhe Town, Huairou, Beijing, China. And this village is located at the foot of the Water Great Wall, surrounded by endless mountains. The old building is the typical traditional quadrangle in the northern China. There is a residential house over a century old on the north of it. And in the south, it is also a quadrangle. As to the east and south side of the site, they have clear view, it is easily to appreciate the endless mountains and the Grate Wall of China.

Chongqing Jiangshan Yun Chu Gallery / LWK + Partners

Collin Chen — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Riverbends by the cliff is a symbolic setting in the Chongqing area. As a living gallery, the project is a trial for and response to localised architecture. It explores the spatial interaction between nature and geographical traits in an urban context.

Fresh Food Theatre / Describing Architecture Studio

Andreas Luco — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Longba Town is composed by 19 villages, which do not possess a decent market. Groceries are locate along the the town's only main road, and livestock are often slaughtered in the streets, spilling blood on the ground directly. Face such a situation, the government has set aside a small plot of vegetable land to build a market of about 2,500 square meters, which provides a high-quality shopping environment for residents, as well as hosts the annually festival and other activities. Therefore, it is not only a daily market serving the town, but also a festive place radiating the whole county. It should be convenient and comfortable, and also, it needs to have certain publicity.

Shanghai Baoye Center Interior / LYCS Architecture

舒岳康 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Shanghai Baoye Center is the headquarters building of the Baoye Group in Shanghai and is part of the phase-two urban development scheme for the new Central Business District in Hongqiao, a rapidly developing piece of western Shanghai. The location of the project puts it at the center of the car, train, and airplane transportation.

Sanhuan Kindergarten / Perform Design Studio

罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Located in the northern outskirt of Yangzhong, an island city in the Yangtze River, this new kindergarten is one of the public education facilities that typically are constructed before the real estate developments of the surrounding upcoming urbanized area.