Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio

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  • Architects: ZSZY Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  953
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Ming Chen, Man Ye
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Anhui Nanrui Glass Co., Ltd., Shanghai Huanyi Industrial Co., Ltd.
  • Design Team: Man Ye, Pengpeng Wan, Yiming Gao, Yiqi Gu, Gang Huang
  • Structure Design: Weizhou Fu
  • Facade Design: Wei Hu, Huajun Bai
  • Mechanical & Electrical Design: Jiannan Yuan, Mingchao Deng
  • Construction Management: Ning Zhang, Feihong Zeng, Minjin Hou, Zhijun Liu
  • Timber Structure: Shiyi Xv, Qiming Ma, Honggen Wang, Dongping Qian, Zhaoyuan Xv
  • The Client: Chengmai County Old Township People's Government
  • City: Chengmai
  • Country: China
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Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography, Stairs
© Ming Chen

Text description provided by the architects. Longji Village is one of the volcanic stone villages in the north of Hainan. Located along the hill, Tongde Hall and Jiangxing Ancestral Hall were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the form of Shiheyuan, featuring the lifting beam structure of timber and volcanic stone. The plaque on the front gate of Tongde Hall was inscribed by Zhang Yuesong, the advanced scholar called ”Jinshi” in the Qing Dynasty.

Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography
© Ming Chen

Only a little more than a ruin, the two separate ancestral halls have nearly no roof above and only some broken walls left. They have obviously lost the high-status dignity submerged in the crowded concrete houses.

Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography, Stairs, Facade
© Ming Chen
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Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Interior Photography, Beam, Column, Arch
© Ming Chen

We are committed to the regain of the former glory of the ancient ancestral halls, the “Emeer” of the village. To crown them again as the prominent landmark in the village, an innovative cable-suspended steel-timber frame system with tall wood columns and a 965㎡glass roof is structured to connect the two relics as one. 78 wood columns form a matrix integrated with a flexible but stable steel cable structure to protect the ancestral halls, and it holds up a giant umbrella to save the relics from the rain.

Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography, Beam
© Ming Chen
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Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Interior Photography
© Ming Chen

The towering banyan trees inside the courtyard are carefully reserved climbing outside the roof, and their dreamlike reflections on the wall dance tranquility in the sunshine.

Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography
© Ming Chen
Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography
© Ming Chen

The design worked out a way of rebirth for low-level historic relics in limited time and with limited cost. The strong contrast between the old volcanic stone walls and the newly-built steel and wood tensile space structure represents the civilization collision of Hainan, which is developing from a traditional island to an international free trade port.

Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio - Exterior Photography, Beam
© Man Ye

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Address:Chengmai County, Hainan Province, China

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Cite: "Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio" 16 Mar 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/958592/tongde-hall-zszy-studio> ISSN 0719-8884

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