Location: Guangdong Time: 2005-2008
Size: 12,000 sqm
Client: Shenzhen Vanke Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Tulou is a dwelling type unique to the Hakka people. It is a communal residence between the city and the countryside, integrating living, storage, shopping, spiritual, and public entertainment into one single building entity.
Traditional units in tulou are evenly laid out along its perimeter, like modern slab-style dormitory buildings, but with greater opportunities for social interaction. Although this type is very much suitable for low-income housing, simply copying the form and style of the tulou would not be a …

The rapid urbanization of contemporary China has led to large, high-speed architecture and urban construction. This situation test the quality of the urban, architectural and environmental quality and lives. quality of design and construction quality will become a key content. Meanwhile, the Sichuan earthquake is also in a special way to remind the world needs to fully understand the power of nature and human coexistence with nature, otherwise, it is home to the most insecure at some point will force them to escape.
The wall of “Paper-box House” is …

The “Qingshui Chamber” project went together with my doctoral dissertation. In my preparations for my dissertation, I found the independent nature of fragments in Chinese garden was quite different from the architectural integrity that I had learned from Western architecture. Set free from the architectural education by this “otherness”, I tried to represent those independent fragments that had moved me in this project. The project acknowledges the life style of wealthy people, who live in big houses and courtyards that formerly received much criticism from the American media. It breaks …

Well known for its satellite launching industry, Xichang is the capital of Liangshan Yi Minority Autonomous Region. It is located among the rolling mountains on the Northwestern Plateau of Sichuan. Here the tranquil Qionghai Lake mirrors the shining sun in the blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds while the bright moon sits in the black velvet sky at night. The strong flavor of Yi Minority culture and the beautiful natural scenery also bestow unique tourist resources on the area. The Xichang Yi Minority Culture & Arts Center and Torch …

Base on the relationship between city texture and traditional inheritance, referenced to the attitude of fully respecting the city development of European countries, architects decided to create a new type commercial site. After the formation analysis of the existing planning layout, the team introduced multi-axis to the scene, utilizing turning masses to structure a framework consist of three “squares”, which makes the area division logical and meaningful. Hence the dialectical relation of the inside and outside of the common units in the streets was completely inherited and became the start …

The project is concerned mainly with two important issues relating to site: the first is the relationship between the architecture and surrounding environment, and the second is how to establish a relationship between local architectural tradition and local culture. The building sits on development-ready leveled land that once was part of the hillside on the university campus. The Research Education Building and the Museum form a wedge shaped composite section that juts into the land. The building mass, multiple roofs, and integrated windows blur the vertical and horizontal forms of …

This is a house that Qingyun Ma designed and built for his father on his homeland.Jade Valley in Lantian,located southeast of Xi’an,is the archaeological site of the prehistoric Lantian man.It is also where the greatest poet from Tang Dynasty,Wang Wai,built his second home.To build a house for himself(or parents,being the closest kinship)is dangerously euphoric for an architect.In this position,an architect’s interio and exterior are forced to collide.It is either a fairy tale where no conflict is allowed,or a hide-out where antagonism is consciously avoided.But the process of designing is not …

Design: 2001
Completion: 2004
Location: Shenzhen
Site Area: 7.802 sqm
Architect: Fei Xiaohua, Shenhua, Pan Houli, Xiayuan, Deng Bingzhu
Depending on the form of the hill and the exceptional view to the seashore, catching the geographic and the altitude superiority, the architects try to design a resort in which all units face towards the seashore without any obstruction.

Client:Zhejiang Vanke Narada Real Estate Group Co.Ltd
Gross Floor Area:145,878m2
Design Architect:David Chipperfield Architects
Structural Engineer:ZheJiang Industry Design and Research Institute
Services Engineer:Zhejiang Industry Design and Research Institute
Landscape Design:Levin Monsigny Landschaftsarchiteckten
Bailujun is a residential district of a new town, Liangzhu Cultural Village, located two hours drive from Shanghai. The district is situated on a plain between a range of hills to the west and a river to the east. The urban motif of the design has been developed from China’s prevailing residential structures of north-south oriented housing rows and the rural tradition of architecture …

A small valley,borderd by a dense bamboo forest,forms the site for this luxury housing development,situated near the Qiang Tang River in Hangzhou,south-eastern China.The particular charm and beauty of the place are the determining factors.Twelve individual volumes are arranged in a chessboard pattern to create the maximum amount of open space for each building.Through planting new vegetation,each apartment building is set in its own clearing in the forest.
The buildings adapt to the topography,creating a flowing landscape through a slight turning of the blocks.The grounds will be accessed from the southern entrance …