Moonlight Huotang La Cheminée Pour L'ethnie Dong by William Chen - Creative Prototyping Unit is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Patrimoine Culturel Competition Category.
BronzePatrimoine Culturel· 2021
Moonlight Huotang La Cheminée Pour L'ethnie Dong
by William Chen - Creative Prototyping Unit
Client: Creative Protyping Unit
A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Patrimoine Culturel Category
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About Moonlight Huotang La Cheminée Pour L'ethnie Dong
En tant que premier projet de commande de la série Huotang pour l'ethnie Dong dans le comté de Guangnan, Guangxi en Chine, Moonlight Huotang s'adresse particulièrement au groupe de villageois qui perpétuent la culture musicale Pipa. La forme convexe unique du plafond renforce le sentiment de rassemblement en réponse à un meilleur environnement acoustique tandis que la chambre d'entrée offre un espace multifonction comme vestiaire, salle de préparation des repas et salle de confession. Il s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une régénération rurale axée sur la culture et visant à relancer l'économie d'un comté dont les jeunes générations se sont déplacées vers des zones urbaines plus grandes.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Bronze
Moonlight Huotang La Cheminée Pour L'ethnie Dong est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Moonlight Huotang La Cheminée Pour L'ethnie Dong est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Moonlight Huotang La Cheminée Pour L'ethnie Dong satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Moonlight Huotang is a fireplace for the Dong ethnicity located in Guangnan county, Guangxi province of China. It is the first commission project as part of the Huotang series and particularly for the group of villagers who carry on the Pipa music culture. The unique convex shape of the ceiling enhances the sense of gathering in response to a better acoustic environment while the entry chamber provides a multifunction space as a changing room, food preparation room and confession room.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- main building in 5m diameter circular shape, plot size: 6m Width x 8m Depth
- Tags
- Community Centre, Cultural Regeneration, Fireplace, Huotang, Dong Ethnicity
- Production Technology
- Stone foundation, brick wall plus straw and clay plaster on the surface, CNC cut timber roof structure
- Design Challenge
- As a cultural regeneration project, the challenge was to enhance the local crafts such wood construction and straw weaving techniques while bringing a contemporary architectural understanding to the local community. To ensure its buildability by local craftsmen, wood construction was chosen aided by CNC fabrication to realise a unique geometry for the Huotang typology. Wall finishes and internal doors also utilise the straw weaving techniques to showcase the Dong culture. By doing so, the new Huotang seeks to ensure a contemporary relevance for the Dong culture.
- Research
- Dong ethnicity has been rooted in the remote rural mountain area and increasingly disconnected from the fast-moving cities. It is part of a rural culture regeneration project as an architectural acupuncture which intends to revive the economy of a county whose young generations have moved to larger urban areas. By building specific industrial structures and social projects in relation to the Dong culture and economy, it hopes to boom in the tourism industry for a better connection to the outside world.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from local traditional timber construction house and craft techniques developed by the Dong ethnicity. The circular typology has been chosen due to the form of gathering around the fireplace as well as acting as a small theatre for performing traditional Pipa music instrument. This has been the form of their life for many generations.
- Project Duration
- Permanent, completion in June 2021
- Operation Flow
- The Huotang plays an important role in the daily life of the Dong community. As a forum, it is a gathering place of great social significance, and often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions and debates, leisure and dinner. Deeply integrated into Dong’s lives, it is their second home. Moonlight Huotang proposal is for up to 25 people who can carry on the folk music culture to the next generations as well as a display of Dong culture for foreign tourists.
- Team Members
- Architect:William Hailiang Chen
Architectural Assistant: Shoujian Eng
Structural Engineer: XinY structural consultants
Acoustic Consultant: Zhu Heng - Image Credits
- All images©Creative Prototyping Unit
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