Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB

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Chengdu, China
  • Architects: CLAB
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  305
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
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    Photographs:Lang Xu
  • Lead Architect: Lang Xu
  • Design Team: Lang Xu, Dongxu Chen, He Wang (CLAB) / Li Wan, Xinan Chi (The Chinese University of HongKong)
  • Engineering: Jintao Ran
  • Consultant: Gang Xu
  • Collaborator: Wuyou Conceptual Teahouse
  • City: Chengdu
  • Country: China
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Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Interior Photography, Table, Chair, Beam
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Text description provided by the architects. The INNOVATIVE LAB of ARCHITECTURE & ART is CLAB’s new studio in Qionglai, Chengdu City, and it is a space built and operated by architects, artists, scientific research institute, and rural craftsmen. Its name reveals three, at least, experimental "spirits": the experiment of construction, the experiment of rural reform movement, and the innovation experiment of social relations.

Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Exterior Photography, Beam, Brick
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Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Exterior Photography, Door, Brick
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This space is constructed by traditional material rammed earth. A scientific research team come from Chinese University of Hong Kong provided mature technical support for the rammed earth construction of this project, which significantly improved the technical limit of traditional rammed earth, so that it can be used in the earthquake of eight-degree fortification areas, can be used as structure (not maintenance system). This will also improve the living security in rural areas.

Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Interior Photography, Door, Table, Facade, Glass, Chair, Windows
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Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Beam, Chair, Windows
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This technology insists the handmaking of rammed earth so as to adapt to the way of social work in the countryside and be accepted and spread by the vast rural areas of China. The whole construction process is also a cultivate scheme for modern rammed earth artisans. Local artisans will take this technic returning to their homeland, build their home by hands, considering the reality of undeveloped rural society, and bring modern meaning into the historical narrative.

Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Interior Photography, Dining room, Chair, Beam
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Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Interior Photography, Beam, Column
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Upon completion of the laboratory, we will operate the residence of architects and artists to nurture contemporary knowledge and rural nature mutually and to experiment with a possible innovative social relationship. This is the significance of the practice of the INNOVATIVE LAB of ARCHITECTURE & ART.

Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB - Interior Photography, Table, Chair
© Lang Xu

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Address:Qiongyao Relic Park, Chengdu City, Sichuan province, China

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Cite: "Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB" 01 Aug 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/986232/innovative-lab-of-architecture-and-art-clab> ISSN 0719-8884

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建筑与艺术创新实验室 / 合造社建筑设计事务所

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