The 220,000 square meter pedestrian-oriented Linked Hybrid complex, sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing, aims to counter the current urban developments in China by creating a new twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. Filmic urban public space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages through the project, make the Linked Hybrid an “open city within a city”. The project promotes interactive relations and encourages encounters in the public spaces that vary …

Songzhuang art center
Songzhuang Art Center is the first public art facility built in this well-recognized contemporary chinese art village 45 minutes drive out of Beijing city.  With around 4000 artists living in Songzhuang area by 2008, this Art Center will provide a platform for local community.
The exhibition space is lifted up to create a welcoming horizontal flow with multi-purpose on ground level, to host exhibition, events and casual common area. The second level is rather introversive art space with only sky light or courtyard light. The surrounding landscape does not …

Pavilion e!
A temporary pavilion addressed to contemporary living and environmental issues will be introduced to the 6 months of exhibition at Shanghai expo 2010. To serve this global event and city festival, the building first evolves from ground forming an undulating surface forming a covered city electronic plaza. By mirroring this undulated surface vertically, 3 large exhibition halls are embraced by both surfaces, allowing mega scale hologram of environmental information and indoor entertainment, as well as creating a hilly-topo of roof eco-garden. An outdoor loop of escalators and corridors crosses …

Xixi Leisure Center is one of the 12 buildings located in an art and culture compound in Xixi National Wetland Park, a cluster architecture commissioned to 12 Chinese architects by Hangzhou city government. Hangzhou has been well known for its long history, rich culture and the West Lake landscape. Xixi art and culture compound is part of development to stimulate cultural tourism.
The leisure center will house leisure function as open and continuous circulation on ground level and sunken into activity pools imitating paths and ponds of wetland topography, while on …

Songzhuang artist village
Located in Tong Zhou District,eastern outskirts of Beijing, Songzhuang is the most famous and biggest artist community in China. The first artists moved here including Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun,in the early 1990’s, having been driven out of another community near the Old Summer Palace in Beijing’s north-west. For more than 10 years these artists were virtual outcasts with much of their work politically inspired, lived and worked under the watchful eye of communist authorities. With the booming of Chinese art market, Songzhuang is undergoing a dramatic expansion …

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Our approach to projects starts with research and discussiong on context,program,and their interactiong,which we believe are the fundamental elements,or the dna,that will define design and architecture,to adapt,engage,and contribute to our society of mulitiplicity and complexity.
Context,program,and their potential relationship,will cultivate architecture into a mulitidimensional expression and generate new experiment and exploration for users. Architecture will continue to influence and inspire our contemporary life.

Sino-French Centre of Tongji-University is located at the south-east corner of the campus, with 12.9 Building, the oldest existing building of the campus, and 12.9 Memorial Park on its west side, tracking field on its south side, and Siping Road on its east Side. XuRi-Building, which should be preserved, is located at the northwest corner of the site. And the other precondition is that a group of existing meta sequoias and the other scattered located nine trees such as deodar cedars, plane-trees, Japanese pagoda-trees and willows are chosen to be …

The Chinese ge is similar to the lou in that both are of two or more storey buildings. But the ge has a door and windows only on the front side with the other three sides being solid walls. Ge are usually enclosed by wooden balustrades or decorated with boards all around.
Such storeyed pavilions were used in ancient times for the storage of important articles and documents. Wenyuange for instance, in the Forbidden City of Beijing was in effect the imperial library. Kuiwenge in the Confucius Temple of Qufu, …

 
When the Chinese speak of a lou, they refer to any building of two or more storeys with a horizontal main ridge. The erection of such buildings began a long time ago in the Period of the Warring States (475-221 B. C. ), when chonglou (”layered houses”) was mentioned in historical records.
Ancient buildings with more than one storey were meant for a variety of uses. The smaller two-storeyed buildings of private homes generally has the owner’s study or bedroom upstairs. The more magnificent ones built in parks or at …

The tai was an ancient architectural sturture, a very much elevated terrace with a flat top. Generally built of earth, stone and surfaced with brick, they are used as a belvedere from which to look into the distance. In fact, however, many well-known ancient tai as we know it today is not just a bare platform but has some palatial halls built on top.
A good example is the Round City of the Beihai Park in Beijing. A terrace five metres high, it has an area of 4, 500 square …