Moonlight Huotang Foco Pro Dong Ethnicitatis by William Chen - Creative Prototyping Unit is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Patrimonium Culturale Competition Category.
AesPatrimonium Culturale· 2021
Moonlight Huotang Foco Pro Dong Ethnicitatis
by William Chen - Creative Prototyping Unit
Client: Creative Protyping Unit
Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Patrimonium Culturale Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #116858The Design
About Moonlight Huotang Foco Pro Dong Ethnicitatis
Cum prima commissio propositi Huotang seriei pro Dong ethnicitatis in comitatu Guangnan, Guangxi Sinarum, Huotang Moonlight praesertim est coetus vicani qui culturam musicam Pipa gerunt. Unicum convexum laquearia figuram auget sensum colligendi in responsione ad meliorem acusticam ambitum, dum cubiculi vestibulum multifunctioni spatium praebet sicut locus mutabilis, praeparatio cibi locus et locus confessionis. Regeneratio ruris culturae pertinet quae renovare intendit oeconomiam comitatus cuius iuvenes generationes ad maiores urbanas regiones pervenerunt.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum
Moonlight Huotang Foco Pro Dong Ethnicitatis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Moonlight Huotang Foco Pro Dong Ethnicitatis rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Moonlight Huotang Foco Pro Dong Ethnicitatis necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.
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
Sponsored
Explore Beyond Designers.org
Discover products, services and opportunities from our advertising partners.
More to Explore
Related Designs
Explore more award-winning designs from the same category, selected by merit.
