Moonlight Huotang ʻo Ke Kapuahi No Ka Lāhui Dong by William Chen - Creative Prototyping Unit is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Waiwai Moʻomeheu a me ʻOihana Moʻomeheu Competition Category.
KeleaweWaiwai Moʻomeheu· 2021
Moonlight Huotang ʻo Ke Kapuahi No Ka Lāhui Dong
by William Chen - Creative Prototyping Unit
Client: Creative Protyping Unit
A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Waiwai Moʻomeheu Category
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About Moonlight Huotang ʻo Ke Kapuahi No Ka Lāhui Dong
Ma ke ʻano he papahana komisina mua o Huotang moʻo no ka lāhui Dong ma ka moku ʻo Guangnan, Guangxi o Kina, ʻo Moonlight Huotang no ka hui o nā kamaʻāina e hoʻokau nei i ka moʻomeheu mele Pipa. ʻO ke ʻano convex kūʻokoʻa o ke kaupaku e hoʻonui ai i ke ʻano o ka hōʻiliʻili ʻana i ka pane ʻana i kahi kaiapuni acoustic ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi aʻo ke keʻena komo e hāʻawi i kahi ākea multifunction ma ke ʻano he lumi hoʻololi, lumi hoʻomākaukau meaʻai a me ka lumi hōʻike. He ʻāpana ia o ka hoʻoulu hou ʻana i ke kuaʻāina i alakaʻi ʻia e ka moʻomeheu e manaʻo nei e hoʻōla i ka hoʻokele waiwai o kahi kalana nona nā hanauna ʻōpio i neʻe i nā kūlanakauhale nui aʻe.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Keleawe
Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Moonlight Huotang ʻo Ke Kapuahi No Ka Lāhui Dong i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Moonlight Huotang ʻo Ke Kapuahi No Ka Lāhui Dong he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Moonlight Huotang ʻo Ke Kapuahi No Ka Lāhui Dong i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
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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