DESIGN NAME: Qing
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Residential House
INSPIRATION: This project is a tribute to Mexican landscape architect Luis Barragan. His works combines simple mass and natural plants to create poetic space. In Qing House, the poetry has always been the designer's pursuit.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: To Hierarchy the boundaries is the design strategy of this project. The 5 concrete walls overlap each other and placed unparalleled by the Comphor trees. Some can plant flowers on the top. Some undertakes rainwater and transfers waterfall into the river. Some has opening at the bottom for the household to extend the sight while swimming. Some plays a role as the base of a platform around the tree. They create transitional spaces for wandering and planting between the public field. For people both inside and outside, the walls are the canvas of shadows and light.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: It was a two-story villa more than a decade which is located at the intersection of two rivers in the residential community in Shanghai. Its’ beautiful scenery was blocked by closed fences. The original building facade was messy and the area was too small for the new households’ use. This project is to refurbish comprehensively the landscape, architecture and interior.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in April 2015 and finished in August 2017 in Shanghai, China.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Four exposed concrete walls of two-meters high, fifty-centimeters thick are placed by overlapped, staggered, titled the Comphor trees. The negative space between the walls and surroundings is interspersed with arbors or taller shrubs to make the boundary more hierarchical. At the farthest corner is the largest Comphor tree facing the big grassland. The border here is designed with different height as a platform which surrounds the tree toward down to the river.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Site: 985 square meters
TAGS: Boundary, Concrete, Canvas, Poetry, Less, More, Landscape, Comphor
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The poetry in architecture has always been the designer's pursuit. I hope to use the least and simplest structure, combined with the organic changes in nature, to connect the universe with the human scale. Site is always limited, less is more.
CHALLENGE: Qing House is located in intersection of two rivers in the suburbs of Shanghai. One side across the river is the main traffic flow for the community, the other side is the neighborhood. The design challenge under such conditions is to balance the visual penetration and keep the sense of security at the same time. How to reserve four old Comphor trees in this site is also the issue.
ADDED DATE: 2018-06-18 13:24:22
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IMAGE CREDITS: #1: Fu-ming Lin, 2018
#2: Fu-ming Lin, 2018
#3: Peilun Li, 2018
#4: Peilun Li, 2018
#5: Fu-ming Lin, 2018
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