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In China, japanese architect Kengo Kuma was chosen among ten Asian architects to design ten residences each, creating a hundred residences all together in a forest adjacent to the Great Wall of China, an environmentally mutual commune.
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The Dushan School Complex designed by West-line Studio is located in Baiquan Town, the so-called “South Gate of Guizhou” at the border with Guangxi province. Architects based the design of this school complex in order to create a series of courtyards with different levels of privacy, where “listen to the sound of wind and to the sound of reading” according to…
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The Exhibition and Tourist Center designed by West-line Studio is located in Fuxing Town, inside the Danxia landform area and on the main tourist routes. The site highlights the typical characteristics of this particular area, with its complicated morphology. The whole building has been designed following the movement of the soil in a circular route around the central open courtyard.
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The Red Army Memorial Museum (丙安红一军团纪念馆) is located in the rural Bing’an Warf (丙安滩), a shoal in the middle of Chishui river, at the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China. Nowadays the village of Bing’an counts around 700 residents and its long history dates back to the Ming Dynasty (17th Century). During Qing Dynasty (18th…
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The park gateway has been designed by West-line studio architects as a dense assembly of vertical lines. The gate is hidden in the Bamboo Sea and interacts with the particular weather conditions of the area (sun, thick fog, rain, wind, and snow) which make the architecture unstable and flexible.
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The Concrete Memorial in Huangpi Dong, China designed by West-line studio is created by a succession of three different ‘enclosed’ spaces, which create a quiet and meditative atmosphere
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The Chetian Cultural Center designed by West-line-studio derives from the historical masonry traditions of Chetian Village. The design was built according to the local traditional methods, using the so-called “blue stone” coming from the village’s pit.
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The Spiral Gallery designed by Atelier Deshaus in 2011 uses round shapes and divides the circulation into two levels in order to blur the boundaries between the building and the landscape.
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The West Bund Long Museum designed by Atelier Deshaus is located at the bank of Huangpu River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the wharf for coal transportation.
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Blossom Pavilion is a cooperative spatial device designed by Atelier Deshaus with artist Zhan Wang, which is also one of the spatial art pieces project of Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2015 1+1 (artist + architect).
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