The Gymnasium of Donghua University is actually a playground in all-weather. For the sake of the limited investment, this gym mainly depends on natural light and natural ventilation. The net height of the iterior space also uses the lowest data that architectural standard admits.
As a result, this gym becomes a kind of between-mass, which means:
Between interior and exterior
Between formal and temporary
Between housing and landscape
Between entity and mural
Between building and construction…
All these were decided by the project’s inner problems and the way used to settle them…
Location: University town of Songjiang, Shanghai
Client: …

Chinese national 1st class registered architect. Graduated from Architecture Department at Dongnan University in 1985. Design director of Chaox Architects, Shanghai.
domus: Why do you name your firm “Chaox Architects”?
Luo Siwei: We had prepared dozens of names, but all of them were rejected by the Industry and Commerce Administration. I tried several other names, and they selected ” Free Thinking,” and, in English, “Chaox”. The process of naming isn’t much different from the basic modes of architecture design: being passive, being selected, and being motivated. Of course, we like “Free Thinking” …

The club is formed by a folding wall of 500M long, which also encloses 13 separating courtyards. A delicate bias cuts through the building and guides people to enjoy the experience of “a different view with every step” within the spaces and landscapes. Each span has an irregular shape, and different spans integrate together and form a kind of introvert space; the transverse bridges cut the spans into spaces with different functions, such as interiors, courtyards, atrium, water and bridges, which reinterpreted the Suzhou tastes in a different way.

Located at the east side of Xiayang Lake in the new area of Qingpu District, the office building belongs to the Xaiyang Lake Landscape Area. We took into consideration the views not only from the interior but also from the exterior. The solution is a cube covered with a glass curtain wall. The square building is 60×60 meter. The three-story building encloses a green yard with a steel and glass framework . While clearly defining the private space in the interior, the transparent glass walls also create a visual communication …

Atelier Deshaus was established by Liu Yichun, Zhuang Shen and Chen Yifeng in 2001 in Shanghai. It involved in many fields including landscape design, architectural and interior design, the preservation and reuse of the ancient architecture and so on. So they will never treat any problems isolatingly. The long time design experience and many professional exhibition communications enable them to have great experience in building houses in China. And they also have acute international view.
domus: Why is your office named Deshaus? What essence of design and persepective dose it reflect?
Zhuang …

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 …