Kangju Community Center

Kushan, China
Site Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Middle part of south elevation
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南立面局部及一层的半开敞公共空间
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One of the courtyards behind the bridge between building volumes
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Southeast corner of the building near the half-circle pond in the park
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Part of north elevation
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One of the roof decks with a planted roof in distance
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Vertical spatial penetration up to three story high
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One of the corner space for a small group and the window seats on the second floor.
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Architects
Pu Miao
Localització
Qianjin Road at Sichang Road, Kushan, China
Any
2006
Client
Kunshan City Construction Investment and Development Co. Ltd.
Equip
Pu Miao
Engineering
Shanghai Landscape Architecture Design Institute

With modern buildings increasingly being designed as one large and centralized mass, this design revisited the decentralized model. Catering for senior residents living in the apartments around the park, the community center has a porous exterior appearance which resembles a forest that attracts people to enter. The building plan has many boundaries and corners to create many territories for small groups of users who come here to play cards and chess. The overall spatial structure juxtaposes rooms and courtyards/roof decks, which not only generate an intimate relationship between the indoor space and the nature (a characteristic of traditional Chinese architecture), but also produces “suspenseful” views within the building. The scheme reflects most people’s desire for a “refuge” with a “prospect” in a public space. This experiment is part of the author’s effort to localize Modern Architecture.

Publication
Journal Domus (Italy, Chinese Edition, 4/2008) and book Architecture 07' 06' 05': Works from the Forum on Chinese Contemporary Architecture (2006), Atlas of Contemporary Chinese Architecture (2014)

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