Stone White Ang Sentro Ng Aktibidad Ng Mga Taganayon by Minjie Si and Xianfeng Ye is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award na Bronse in Disenyo ng Arkitektura, Gusali at Estruktura Competition Category.
BronseArkitektura· 2022
Stone White Ang Sentro Ng Aktibidad Ng Mga Taganayon
Client: Vrap
A' Design Award na Bronse Winner in Arkitektura Category
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About Stone White Ang Sentro Ng Aktibidad Ng Mga Taganayon
Ang isang wasak na bahay na bato na matatagpuan sa pasukan ng nayon ay napili bilang lugar ng community activity center. Ang hamon sa disenyo ay upang mapaunlakan ang pangangalaga ng orihinal na istraktura hangga't maaari at pag-install ng mga bagong function. Dalawang umiiral na puno ang pinananatili sa site, isang steel-tube-supported stairs ang ginawa sa paligid ng mga puno, na humahantong sa isang bagong platform na nagsisilbi ring pasukan sa ikalawang palapag. Itinayo sa panahon ng pandemya, ang proyekto ay pangunahing natapos ng mga lokal sa pamamagitan ng proseso ng partisipasyon ng komunidad na may mga low-tech na pamamaraan.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award na Bronse
Ang Stone White Ang Sentro Ng Aktibidad Ng Mga Taganayon ay nagwagi ng A' Design Award na Bronse, isang lubhang prestihiyosong pagkilalang iginagawad sa mga natatanging disenyong nakikilala sa pagkamalikhain, katalinuhan at talas ng isip. Ang mga nagwagi ng Bronse ay mga likhang lubhang mahusay at kapansin-pansing malikhain na nagpapatunay sa malawak na karanasan, imahinasyon at pagkamaparaan ng kanilang mga tagapagdisenyo. Inaasahang ang Stone White Ang Sentro Ng Aktibidad Ng Mga Taganayon ay isang lubos na pinahahalagahan, hinahangaan at minamahal na bagay na kapansin-pansing propesyonal at makabago. Ang disenyong ito na nagwagi ng A' Design Award na Bronse ay nagsasama ng pinakamahuhusay na kasanayan sa sining, agham, disenyo at teknolohiya, at mahusay dahil sa pansin nito sa detalye. Ang Stone White Ang Sentro Ng Aktibidad Ng Mga Taganayon ay kahanga-hangang tumutugon sa mga pangangailangan, humahaplos sa mga hangarin, bumibighani sa damdamin at umaakit sa pag-uusisa.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- 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
- Team Members
- Design Team: Minjie Si, Weixiong Jiang, Xue Li, Xuejiao Li, Xinfei Guo
Construction & Manage Team: Xianfeng Ye, Zulong Zheng - 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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