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Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye
Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye
Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye
Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye
Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye

Bronse Arkitektur · 2022

Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter

by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye

  • A' Design Award i Bronse 2022 in Arkitektur
  • CLIENT: Vrap
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 9,386
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About Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter

Et ødelagt steinhus som ligger ved inngangspunktet til landsbyen ble valgt som stedet for samfunnsaktivitetssenteret. Designutfordringen er å imøtekomme bevaring av den opprinnelige strukturen så mye som mulig og installasjon av nye funksjoner. To eksisterende trær holdes på stedet, en stålrørstøttet trapp ble konstruert rundt trærne, som fører til en ny plattform som også fungerer som inngang til andre etasje. Prosjektet ble bygget under pandemien og ble hovedsakelig fullført av lokalbefolkningen gjennom en samfunnsdeltakende prosess med lavteknologiske metoder.

About the A' Design Award i Bronse

Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter er vinner av A' Design Award i Bronse, en høyt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles enestående design som utmerker seg ved kreativitet, oppfinnsomhet og skarpsindighet. Bronsevinnere er rikt dyktige og påfallende kreative gjenstander som bekrefter designernes store erfaring, fantasi og ressurssterkhet. Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter forventes å være en høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt gjenstand som er bemerkelsesverdig profesjonell og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Bronse, rommer beste praksis innen kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi og utmerker seg ved sin omtanke for detaljer. Stone White Landsbyboerne Aktivitetssenter tilfredsstiller behov på en strålende måte, berører ønsker, sjarmerer følelser og vekker nysgjerrighet.

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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
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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