Stone White Doarpsbewenners Aktiviteitensintrum by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award yn Brûns in Arsjitektuer, Gebou en Struktuerûntwerp Competition Category.
BrûnsArsjitektuer· 2022
Stone White Doarpsbewenners Aktiviteitensintrum
Client: Vrap
A' Design Award yn Brûns Winner in Arsjitektuer Category
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About Stone White Doarpsbewenners Aktiviteitensintrum
In ferwoaste stiennen hûs leit by it yngongspunt fan it doarp waard keazen as it plak fan it mienskipsaktiviteitssintrum. De ûntwerpútdaging is om it behâld fan 'e orizjinele struktuer safolle mooglik te foldwaan en de ynstallaasje fan nije funksjes. Op it terrein wurde twa besteande beammen hâlden, om de beammen waard in stalen buis-stipe trep oanlein, dy't liedt ta in nij platfoarm dat ek tsjinnet as yngong nei de twadde ferdjipping. Boud tidens de pandemy, waard it projekt foaral foltôge troch de lokale befolking fia in mienskiplik partisipearjend proses mei low-tech metoaden.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award yn Brûns
Stone White Doarpsbewenners Aktiviteitensintrum is in winner fan de A' Design Award yn Brûns, in heech prestisjeuze erkenning foar treflike ûntwerpen dy't har ûnderskiede troch kreativiteit, fernuft en tûkens. Brûnswinners binne tige feardige en opfallend kreative artefakten dy't de grutte ûnderfining, ferbylding en betochtsumens fan har ûntwerpers befêstigje. Fan Stone White Doarpsbewenners Aktiviteitensintrum wurdt ferwachte dat it in tige heech achte, bewûndere en dierber objekt is dat opmerklik profesjoneel en ynnovatyf is. Dit winnende ûntwerp fan de A' Design Award yn Brûns yntegrearret de bêste praktiken yn keunst, wittenskip, ûntwerp en technology en is treflik om syn omtinken foar detail. Stone White Doarpsbewenners Aktiviteitensintrum foldocht behoeften prachtich, reitsjet winsken, betsjoeveret gefoelens en sprekt nijsgjirrigens oan.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The activity center for villagers was built during epidemic time, mainly by the locals through community participatory process with low-tech methods. A balance is achieved between built and preserved, specificity and generality, immediacy and evolutionary instinct. The objective is to build open public infrastructure, by reusing the existing traces and imagining their future development. It's a matter of reading the richness of a specific context in order to plan new rurality, capable of stimulating both villagers and out comers.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- preserved stone wall with thickness of 400mm; light steel structure as main structure to strengthen the existing stone wall and support the new white house above, main column with the dimension of 100mm*100mm; steel tubes with different diameters 30mm,40mm and 50mm are used as an alternative supporting system for stairs and platform.
- Tags
- regeneration, rural design, stone, tree house, community center, light steel structure
- Production Technology
- preserved stone wall with thickness of 400mm; light steel structure as main structure to strengthen the existing stone wall and support the new white house above; steel tubes with different diameters 30mm,40mm and 50mm are used as an alternative supporting system for stairs and platform.
- Design Challenge
- It is difficult to calculate how much steel we need to use to strengthen the existing stone wall and it is difficult to calculate whether we have used enough metal tubes to support the stair and platform. Both the structure is informal, which can only be tested on the site by doing a mock-up. Intelligent reuse and demolishing of the stone wall is also a challenge.
- Research
- We are trying to achieve a delicate balance between strategy and form, built and preserved, rigor and freedom, specificity and generality, immediacy and evolutionary instinct. The objective is to build open public infrastructures, by reusing the existing traces and imagining their future development. In short, it's a matter of reading the richness of a specific context in order to plan rural culture buildings, capable of stimulating both villagers and out comers.
- Inspiration
- The activity center for villagers was arranged at the entrance of the community during the regeneration of Feiyue Village, calling for reusing the ruin site of a stone house. The design comes up with the challenge that how to intelligently preserve the original structure and build on the existing traces. A new light-structured white house therefore was designed to rise above the heavy stone walls. Two trees are kept on the site, embraced by steel-tube-supported stairs, give a guide to the new platform above the originals.
- Project Duration
- The design started in May 2019 and finished in November 2019 in Beijing. The construction of the project started in November 2019 and finished in October 2020 in Feiyue Village, Qichun County, Hubei Province.
- Operation Flow
- It was built during epidemic time, mainly built by the local villagers through a community participatory process with low-tech methods. Since few people can be found from outside for construction during that special time and same for the transportation of construction materials. Despite of essential light steel structure, we used the metal tubes with different diameters 30mm,40mm and 50mm as an alternative supporting system, which was one of the most economical materials and easy for handcraft.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Minjie Si, 2021
- Team Members
- Design Team: Minjie Si, Weixiong Jiang, Xue Li, Xuejiao Li, Xinfei Guo
Construction & Manage Team: Xianfeng Ye, Zulong Zheng - Image Credits
- Image 1: Photographer Minjie Si, "Stone White" and the Vernacular Surroundings, 2021
Image 2: Photographer Minjie Si, Feiyue Village, 2021
Image 3: Photographer Minjie Si, Aerial View of "Stone White", 2021
Image 4: Photographer Minjie Si, White House above the Preserved Stone Wall, 2021
Image 5: Photographer Minjie Si, Tree Staris, 2021
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