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Architects: AML Design studio
- Area: 707 m²
- Year: 2020
Colour Hostel Renovation / AML Design studio
TP-LINK Hangzhou R&D Center / SZA
The Contemporary Remodelling of Traditional Materials in Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Constrained by a lack of transportation and resources, vernacular architecture has started adapting the distinct strategy of utilizing local materials. By analyzing projects which have successfully incorporated these features into their design, this article gives an overview of how traditional materials, such as tiles, metal, rocks, bamboo, wooden sticks, timber, rammed earth and bricks are being transformed through vernacular architecture in China.
Best Modern Examples of Ancient Courtyard Renovations in China
Chinese courtyard houses are one of the most common housing typologies spanning all the way from the northern capital of Beijing to the poetic southern cities Hangzhou and back to the picturesque regions of Yunnan. Typically referred as heyuan, these courtyards homes are simply a “yard enclosed on four sides."
Qiseshan Quarry Garden Visitor Centre / UUA (United Units Architects)
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Architects: UUA (United Units Architects)
- Area: 1700 m²
- Year: 2019
PP Garden / People’s Architecture Office
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Architects: People's Architecture Office
- Area: 32 m²
- Year: 2019
Big Fish, Revitalization of Qinquan Village Plaza / Architectural Design and Research Insititute of Tsinghua University
Metal Hands Coffee Renovation / Linkchance Architects
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Architects: Linkchance Architects
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2020
Masquerade Photography Studio / 123 architects
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Architects: 123 architects
- Area: 480 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Beijing Zhenbangyuanjing Decoration Engineering Co.Ltd
Party and Public Service Center of Yuanheguan Village / LUO studio
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Architects: LUO studio
- Area: 546 m²
- Year: 2019
International Department of Beijing Private JunYi Middle School / EDO ARCHITECTS
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Architects: EDO ARCHITECTS
- Area: 2942 m²
- Year: 2019
Interior Reconstruction of the Fourth Teaching Building of Tsinghua University / AADTHU
VAN ROU / AML Design Studio
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Architects: AML Design Studio
- Area: 83 m²
- Year: 2019
Dongxiang Culture Center / CU OFFICE
BigSmall Coffee Beiluoguxiang / designRESERVE
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Landscape Architects: designRESERVE
- Area: 65 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Meat Studio, Songhua Zhang Group
Bridge-Pavilion / SpaceStation
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Architects: SpaceStation
- Area: 500 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Weihai Construction Group Co. Ltd
36 Architecture Firms from the Global South You Should Know
Countries that are part of the so-called “global south” have undergone many transformations in their cities and urban contexts in recent years due to the economic and social challenges they face. Urban growth, sustainable development, quality of life and health in emerging cities, and the development of their own cultural identity have been some of the issues that local architecture had to incorporate.
Young architects have understood the importance of making an architecture that is deeply rooted in their own territory while giving this architecture a clear local identity. By generating new typologies and using their own resources and materials, they have presented innovative, site-specific, and, above all, solutions with a new fresh focus towards what represents them as creators of this architecture.