Gathering Space for Student in SEU Campus(wood & paper)

Gathering place for student in SEU, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
This site locates in the campus of SEU, the biggest one of the four lawns whose purpose is for leisure space for campus people, but many people don’t want to stay & saunter because of its bald, boring & large scale. To some extent, this project is to active this place & becoming a gathering place where people can be wandering, interacting, playing, even reading here. In one hand, the project insert into the site by analyzing the environment of the campus, we hope that this project can respond to these elements, also improve the accessibility of the lawn, which will be more convenient for the people crossing & entering the lawn. So 2 paths & 4 entries are arranged diagonally, the paths divide the lawn from big scale into 4 comfortable & fascinating scale for leisure-use . The main volume locates in the center which seem to be a gathering transit set, people along the path can experience the interesting in/out enclose/open space & reach other paths to other leisure parts of the lawn. So in some way the main role of this part is gathering or transiting. In the other hand, considering the existing building of the campus is the western style, so “stone” & rigid. We would like to build this public installment by way of researching architectural tectonic in order to present the beauty and art of Chinese (or far eastern) style. The wooden & paper-made installment is light, soft, penetratable, varied & elegant by surrounding the landscape and is contrastive to the built environment. The partitions weaved by 3 different tectonic ways create the interesting reactive space, from semi-compact, semi-porosity to transparent. In this space, people will experience of in/out, open/enclose, center/edge, see/be seen, penatratable/semi penatratable, pass thought/non-pass thought, etc. also the shadow casting on these wooden pieces creat light-fluctuated space.In other words, this building could be said to be Self-Sufficient building & can be dismounting easily.

Architect: Zhang Canhui(from ZCHYM ARCHITECT STUDIO)
Year: 2006
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Area:310 ?