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Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun by Hao Li

Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun by Hao Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Perunggu in Arsitéktur Competition Category.


PerungguArsitéktur· 2020

Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun

by Hao Li

Client: Program SPARK

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Arsitéktur Category

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The Design

About Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun

Téks Buku: Hi Ladders High nyaéta hiji paviliun anu diwangun di hiji kem usum panas di hiji sakola dasar di Luotian County, Provinsi Hubei, Cina. Struktur ieu diwangun ku dua puluh hordeng kai anu mandiri anu dipotong sarta dipolés tina kai tuwuh Cina (China fir). Unggal hordeng stabil sarta miboga sudut kamiringan anu bisa disaluyukeun, ku kituna réa kombinasi spasial anu mungkin. Barudak anu teu boga latihan arsitéktur ilubiung dina sakabéh prosés desain sarta pangwangunan. Objék désa anu ilahar, kayaning hordeng, taplak méja transparan, sarta kertas karton, dibéré fungsi anyar. Paviliun ieu nyadiakeun hiji tempat kabuka pikeun kaulinan sarta acara kem.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perunggu, pangakuan anu pohara bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain unggul anu dicirikeun ku kréativitas, kacerdikan jeung kawaspadaan. Para juara Perunggu téh artéfak anu lobaan kaahlian jeung kréatif pisan anu ngabuktikeun pangalaman anu lega, imajinasi jeung kacerdasan para désainerna. Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun diharepkeun jadi objék anu dihargaan, dikagumi jeung dipikanyaah anu profésional jeung inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perunggu ieu ngalebetkeun prakték pangalusna dina seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi, sarta unggul dina perhatian kana détail. Hi Ladders High Fungsi Utama: Paviliun minuhan kabutuhan kalayan éndah, nyentuh kahayang, nyenangkeun rasa, jeung narik rasa panasaran.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Hi Ladders High is a non-profit project launched in the summer of 2018. In the Summer Camp of Tanghe Primary School in Luotian County, Hubei Province, One Take Architects and college volunteers, together with left-behind children designed and built this pavilion.
Kid without professional architectural training could be involved in the whole process of designing and building, which is what we call 'an indeterminate participatory open ended situation'.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 5600mm x Depth 10500mm x Height 2900mm
Tags
Education, Open-Source, Low-tech, Low-cost, Non-profit
Production Technology
The architects and children collectively made Hi Ladders High into a stage for a three-act space drama where events such as a carnival or camp closing ceremony take place. The children interact with Hi Ladders High not only by playing games in the structure, but also by making changes to it through their creation.
As an indeterminate building, the blank part of Hi Ladders High can only be filled by its users, that is, the children of the construction camp. The children proposed over a dozen ideas for Hi Ladders High. One of them even sketched 15 designs all by himself.
Design Challenge
Kids designed and built those pavilion all by themselves. The most important thing is safety. The cost was only 1000 dollars. All the main materials for Hi Ladders High are objects common in the country, such as wooden ladders, transparent tablecloths and cardboards. But this time, these common objects are given completely different functions through their construction.
Research
Reyner Banham proposed the concept of 'an indeterminate participatory open ended situation' in which you could create space suited to what you are going to do next. As a relatively stable open-ended structure, Hi Ladders High provides a place of variable spatial forms. Without preset functions, it could trigger or respond to events happening inside. It changes in indeterminate ways over time, continually manifesting new properties.
Inspiration
In recent years, lots of kids in mountain villages are left behind to their older grandparents. They are called left-behind children. Architects want to use architecture as a medium to help children grow, and show a new world to kids - working in factory is not the only choice in the future.
Hi Ladders High was set up to provides a place of variable spatial forms, it could be designed and built all by kids. Common things such as wooden ladders, transparent tablecloths are given completely different functions through their construction. Therefore, the children have the chance to view them from a brand-new perspective, and try to be an architect or artist.
Project Duration
Tanghe Primary School in Luotian County, Hubei Province, China
Operation Flow
Hi Ladders High consists of twenty independent wooden ladders. This kind of ladder is one of the most common and easily accessible tools in China’s rural areas. Its main body is cut or polished from China fir. Since each ladder has a completely independent and relatively stable structure with a highly adjustable angle of inclination, these ladders present plenty of possibilities of spatial combination. Even children without professional architectural training could be involved in the whole process of designing and building.
Team Members
Wang Xiaoyang
Kang Wei
Zhou Xueer
Cai Xinyuan

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