all images © Cristiano Bianchi

Archea Associati designed a new architecture wonderland in Changsha,China in collaboration with Human Architectural design Institute that displays some specific contextual architectural concerns regarding color and material qualities.

Chinese construction sites:Impressions by Cristiano Bianchi Liling, Hunan Province, close to Mao’s home town:a small city of ceramics, one million of people, in the belly of the country.The colours of the land have the same palette of the architecture, soon going to disappear, covered by grass.A world of fantasy, a child’s drawing, together naif and sophisticated.Buildings like ceramic vases and cups, an out of scale game, a lilliputian hallucination.

Pop architecture,it doesn’t talk to the architects, doesn’t use the architectural language… a game capable to stimulate the imagination of common people.Everybody on the road stops to see it. ther workers.The color is used as a construction material, creating infinite suggestions, changing with the light when you are moving around the buildings. Decoration claims to be re-considered as a necessary part of architecture.

A dreamlike sequence of spaces, alternately compressed and released in between the buildings, with a continuous sense of surprise.A mirage appearing in a deserted land, no connection with reality, a world apart, a scenography for a movie still waiting to be shot.No dialogue with the physical context of the territory, the architecture belongs to a metaphysical context:the world of ceramic art.

A wonderland in the middle of nothing, beside an unfinished highway, in an unknown city searching a “Bilbao effect” to emerge… struggling to build, or re-build, his own identity. Just like the entire country. They are succeeding.

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