The Second Phase of Jin DU
The site is between newly-built high-rise multi-residential district and traditional street blocks, Based on road network, the design extends the traditional city grid to the site to approach the intertexture of old and new streets. At the same time, it pursues the harmonization between the modern and the conventional in various approaches such as spatial scales, volumns and materials. It becomes a transitional media between the old and the new.

“The structure is built on a slope, and cut into integral components parts. It takes as its formal evidence the Chongqing’s special mountain shape as well as its contemporary architectural history. Its structure finds its unique features in individual architectural components by using air-bricks, zinc-iron boards, cement slabs, ceramic bricks, cement slabs, ceramic bricks, cement sunshade boards, as well as other cheap and common building materials. The zigzagging staircase makes up a cubic landscape path, while architectures of the Design College again air local features of Chongqing, being highly recommended …

“Super-long lines are embedded into surrounding plazas, lakes, TV tower, avenues, and sports groud. Different processing of similar black stone material renders rich but simple details. A progressive landscape, carved in water site, plateform and courtyard, expresses different opening relations ranging from urban to internal architectures.”
New City Construction Exhibition Center project site is located in Qingpu New Town Plaza, Hsia Songze the west side of Lake, across Songze Square Huaqing Road and adjacent to. Park Road north, east Huaqing Road, south to New Residential Area, west Shanghai Business Information School. …

1.Project Background
To identify sufficient open space for public and cultural activities in residential development areas, Guangzhou Time Rose Garden invited Dutch Architect Rem Koolhaas to design the Time Gallery of the Guangdong Gallery of Fine Arts while in its third-phase of development. They also invited the Jiakun Architects Studio to design the public activity space system and the landscape. The property owners expect the above designs to be well integrated to serve the residents and urban citizens.
2.Prevalent Problems in China’s Residential Developments
1) Residential developments are usually enclosed within land boundaries …

Principal architect of Jiakun Architects. He works as the chief architect and the projects led by him such as Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum, Human Settlement Project Of Anren Jianchuan Museum, Department of Sculpture of Sichuan Art Institute, Series of Artiest Work Studios and Guangzhou Time Rose Garden, were selected by Chinese Young Architects’ Work Exhibition in Germany, Chinese Contemporary Architecture Exhibition in France and NAI China Comtemporary: Architecture etc.
domus: You curated the China International Practice Architecture Exhibition in Nanjing together with Arata Isozaki. What was your original plan and …