Bishan Duka la Vitabu by Yunhai Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Urithi wa Kitamaduni na Tasnia ya Utamaduni Competition Category.
DhahabuUrithi wa Kitamaduni· 2025
Bishan Duka la Vitabu
by Yunhai Zhao
Client: Yunhai Zhao
Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award Winner in Urithi wa Kitamaduni Category
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The Design
About Bishan Duka la Vitabu
Bishan ni duka la vitabu lililowekwa ndani ya jumba la kale la ukoo katika Kijiji cha Bishan, Wilaya ya Yi, Anhui. Jumba hilo, ambalo ni madhabahu ya familia ya Wang, lilijengwa zaidi ya miaka 230 iliyopita wakati wa Enzi ya Qing. Mradi huu unahusisha eneo la mita za mraba 420 na unabadilisha jengo la kihistoria linalolindwa kwa matumizi ya kitamaduni ya kisasa. Vifaa vya asili kama vile mbao, mianzi na mawe vinaunda muundo wa ndani, huku ukuta wa kabati la vitabu ukiwa umemalizwa kwa udongo mweupe uliogandamizwa. Ubao wa saruji unashikilia ukuta wa kabati la vitabu na kupunguza uharibifu unaosababishwa na unyevu wa ardhini. Umbo la ukuta wa kabati la vitabu linakumbusha vizuizi vilivyopakwa rangi na kuzunguka eneo kuu la kusomea.
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award
Bishan Duka la Vitabu ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kuu unaotolewa kwa miundo ya daraja la kwanza, ya ajabu na ya kuvutia. Washindi wa Dhahabu ni kazi bunifu mno, zenye maono makubwa na za kung'aa kwa umaridadi zinazoakisi kipaji, hekima na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Bishan Duka la Vitabu inatarajiwa kuwa uvumbuzi unaosifiwa sana, wa kuweka mielekeo na wa kihistoria unaoleta thamani isiyo na kifani. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Dhahabu ya A' Design Award ni mradi wa kustaajabisha na unaoheshimika unaonufaisha sana na kupanua mipaka ya sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia. Bishan Duka la Vitabu huzua hisia kali za hamu, huamsha shauku, huhimiza ubunifu na hutuvutia.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Bishan Bookstore needs to have a clear business strategy and plan, which all need to be adapted to the changing consumption and needs of the times and to think with the times. If the market-oriented development of the space is hampered by over-protection, Bishan bookstore will become an exhibit for ornamental purposes only, and its value as a cultural container will be lost.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This project covers an area of 420 square meters.
- Tags
- Huizhou culture, ancestral hall, traditional architecture, traditional crafts, bookstore
- Production Technology
- In addition to the patio, which faces nature, the interior also speaks the language of nature. Natural materials such as wood, bamboo, and stone are used to structure the interior itself. These materials not only have a natural beauty but also resonate with the environment. However, the bookcase wall uses a new material, white rammed earth material, which is used for the exterior wall material of the building.
- Design Challenge
- When Librairie Avant Garde listed the realistic problems to us one by one, we felt that the difficulty of this project was not just to solve these operational challenges,but how a heritage-protected building could find a balance between history and modernity, preserving the original characteristics of this family shrine while enabling it to adapt to the needs of modern society.
- Research
- In this small village, there is a Wang family shrine Qitai Hall, built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, more than 230 years ago. And this small ancestral hall, which has experienced countless hours of history, was injected with new blood in 2014 Librairie Avant Garde the eighth branch of Nanjing Librairie Avant Garde and the first bookstore in the countryside.
- Inspiration
- There is a Wang family shrine Qitai Hall, built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, more than 230 years ago. Librairie Avant Garde has been committed to rooting into the countryside, not for commercial needs, but for the dissemination of culture, so that those areas where it is most difficult to be able to read books have a cultural utopia gathered for the love of reading and books.
- Project Duration
- Project Address: Bishan Village, Yi County,Anhui
Completion date: December 2024 - Operation Flow
- First of all, the transformation of the bookcase is the core of the whole design, in order to reduce the damage to the bookcase caused by the humidity on the ground, the cement board is used to build the bookcase wall, and the bookcase is partially embedded. The form of the whole bookcase wall is inspired by the screen in Chinese painting, and the center area wrapped by three screens is the area for the daily activities of the literati. The screened bookcase recedes backward, drawing the viewer's eye toward the center of the picture.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Yunhai Zhao
- Team Members
- Yunhai Zhao
- Image Credits
- Image #1:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #2:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #3:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #4:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #5:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
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