The Mirrored Sight Shelter Viewing House, Tea House by Li Hao and Nan Xueqian |
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| DESIGN NAME: The Mirrored Sight Shelter PRIMARY FUNCTION: Viewing House, Tea House INSPIRATION: The mirrored sight shelter tells the story of the Longli people — a vernacular community that has experienced isolation and tension in southeast guizhou, china. Yu Qiuyu, the famous writer, once remarked Longli as a lonely islet of the Han culture amidst the minority groups. For the tourists, the islet might be merely a cultural symbol, whereas to the local residents, this islet symbolizes their situation in all forms of survival predicaments. So architects designed this shelter for Longli to reflect on a critical period. Right opposite to the old town by the river, The Mirrored Sight shelter reflects the town’s image. Longli sits within the town whereas the shelter lies outside. There are thousands of residents in Longli and the shelter is just for one person to reside. The town is for daily life and the shelter creates unusual experience for people – in the town of Longli, they belong to a big group, however here in the shelter individual is better appreciated. The effectiveness of our project is further proved by the energetic interaction between the project and the users after it was completed. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: In designing the Shelter, the architects articulated the isolation and tension of the Longli people and the vernacular community. They then created this Mirrored Sight of Longli. The shelter itself is now a place for people to rest and have fun, and meanwhile a new regional landmark. The shelter is connected to the old town by a stone bridge and the locals would go across it everyday to farm, to fish, to do laundry and to wish dishes. The site itself is a space transition from the man-made old town to the natural landscape. There are two floors in the shelter - the upper floor for people to overlook the scene and the lower floor for one to stay and rest. The axes formed by the old town and the river defines the relationship between the shelter and the site. The architects used completely different materials to construct and differentiate the northern and southern facades. The shelter’s west window frames a view of the Longxi Bridge, a bridge that was built in Ming dynasty and forms a shape of bow and arrow together with two roads by the river. The east window captures the view of the Scholar Bridge, which is a memorial to the ancient local scholar Wang Changling. The three apertures of the Scholar Bridge forms the shape of a fish creel and the scenes captured in the two windows are both import local Feng Shui (traditional Chines geomancy) imageries. The pyramid shaped inner space would give the wrong impression that the space is rather narrow. However, when going upstairs, visitors would find it in fact much bigger than they thought. After getting dark, the shelter shows an utterly different presence from the daytime. The overall shape of the structure merges into the darkness and the pyramid emerges together with its mirror images, seemingly floating in the air with its reflection in the water. Hence, an imagery of the Lonely Islet is brought in the air of Longli’s most natural and original scene. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The project objective was to create a lonely islet that would bring people back to the early Longli, which was forgotten and abandoned. To properly designed this project, the first thing to do was to create a surprise effect when taking the visitor to gradually discover the space. The first floor is an exploration in creating a more layered and sequential experience. The second floor is a ritual space, serene and tranquil, marking the transition between the public and private. The visitors saw complicated reflection in the glass, was immersed in a shadow of the reality. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in October 2016 in Longli, a small town in south china. We completed the construction in only one week, cost only 7500 dollars. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Architects used completely different materials to construct and differentiate the northern and southern facades. The northern façade, densely covered by local bamboo wood, parallels with the axis of Longli town, and the southern façade, cladded with Pilkington Mirropane (single-transparent glass), parallels the Longxi River. Therefore, the installation comes into a simple shape narrowing eastward. The entrance of installation faces to the old stone bridge, making a relationship between the ‘Opposite Shelter’ and old town. The glass reflects scene of Longli’s daily life south to the river, and creates a shadow of the reality. The mirror image of the pyramid becomes a shadow of the pyramid itself. The refraction and reflection of the glass would give people who gets inside the installation an experience of an integration of a complex mirrored sights, which one can hardly which is real and which is unreal. The Shelter itself is not completely lying out of the Longli town, rather it is an installation built upon the inter-related images of the town of Longli. But after dark, the shelter shows an utterly different presence as that of daytime – a lonely islet. Single-transparent glass became a powerful tool for us as they relied only on the natural light and existing s scenery of the site. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Width 4000mm x Depth 1500mm x Height 6700mm TAGS: low cost, fast construction, lonely islet, reflect, redefine the daily life, low-tech, balance between tradition and mordern design RESEARCH ABSTRACT: This project is in a shifting process to renew its image and improve its function. The architects researched a lot of local architectures and traditional culture to develop the projects’ language, they embraced transitional culture without directly replication. CHALLENGE: The main challenge was to blend effortlessly modern design and traditional construction. Limited by time and budget, the whole project concept is based on using locally available materails, such as wood, bamboo. It’s completed in only one week, cost 7500 dollars. In Longli, most of workers are not professional, they come back home to harvest their fields during the busiest seasons, and become construction workers in the slack seasons. They are different form workers in the city. It’s very hard for them to understand what's your purpose, they prefer to work in the traditional way. ADDED DATE: 2017-06-28 08:58:18 TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Li Hao and Nan Xueqian IMAGE CREDITS: All images photo by Kang Wei. PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Li hao, 2017. |
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NAME: One Take Architects PROFILE: One Take Architects, one of the most active and influential architectural firms in China’s contemporary architecture field, was founded by architect Li Hao in 2016, and is based in Hangzhou. Instead of enforcing architect's self-conscious or following icons and superficial forms, a good design has to respect the existing environment with support of logic and reasons. Every architecture is a vessel for living that defines user's everyday life to different extent, consciously or sub-consciously. The definition established upon lifestyles, cultural conditions, site content, local climate and etc; and this is where the new lifestyle starts to evolve from. The new lifestyle, instead of being the repetition of the existing conditions, should be an unprecedented life experience created through design. This is the meaning of new architecture. In every project, One Take Architects is devoted to discover the unrevealing relationship and various possibilities in existing context. Through our design, to create the new perception and experience which are exclusive to each project. The sense of ‘being here’ is uniquely established and reflected in percipient's emotion and action. Therefore, the space, being the vessel of living, has formed an irreplaceable connection between place and perception. Architecture touches upon aesthetics, image, light, materiality, details, spirituality and many other things. But most important of all to us, in our era and social context, is its innovative power to transform people and the way they live, while striking a new balance between the man-made and nature. We'd love to keep creating the space that makes your life joyful and pleasant. |
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The Mirrored Sight Shelter Viewing House, Tea House by Li Hao and Nan Xueqian is Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2017 - 2018.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Li Hao and Nan Xueqian. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Li Hao and Nan Xueqian. |
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