The site is located in entrance of a cemetery. For the old offices, gates & other facilities is not fitting to the need of the cemetery’s need, the client wants to setup a new mixed-use building that contain office, exhibition & business rooms, customer & staff lounge etc. In this project, first of all, we integrates the gate and the building for upgrating the whole shape of the cemetery, the complex has 3 parts: main building, entrant gate & a bell tower. Second of all, by analyzing the original elements & view axis of the site, there is a sequence axis being set, which matches original condition & makes full use of landscape, along this axis important special elements will be kept or added including original pool & pavilion, new square , lights row & some sculptures. Third of all, as the climax of the sequence a meditation space is set in the middle of the axis & facing to the lake, from this main space other functions is arranged by their character, private or public, functional or monumental. Fourth of all, an integral sequence is formed by the axis and the meditation space, also some walls and wind corridor act as the boundary of the death & the life to present the spiritual meaning as people walking thought. Fifth of all, the building has minimum art form, also presenting the concept of time, some natural time-changeable material is used, including the wood, the restrain iron plate & ragged concrete, we encourage people to touch & fell it in order to catch the meaning of the life.
2007
2007
Area:1654 ?
Project Supervisor: Zhong Dekun studio
Architect: Zhang Canhui & Zhong Dekun(professor of SEU,Zhong Dekun studio)
Year: 2007
Location: Xinhui, Guangdong, China
Canhui Zhang
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