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Bing’an Red Memorial in Guizhou
Red Army Memorial Museum Development, China ? design by West-line studio
9 Dec 2016
Bing’an Red Memorial
Architects: West-line studio
Location: Chishui, Guizhou Province, China
A solitary rough concrete monument rises from destruction to let people remember a past battle

Bing’an is located on a deep ditch on dangerous cliffs, where there was not much flatland to build a proper town. But due to this particular location, at a strategic junction between South-West commercial routes, the town has been developing its own architectural style. Hanging stilted wooden buildings, 20 meters higher than the river level, take advantage of the mountainous layout, using 60 degrees dig angle. Bing’an master plan was arranged following a ‘fish-bone’ scheme, with a central commercial street cutting through the village.
On this commercial street, at the very center of the village, West-line studio has been asked to restore a historic building to host the Red Army Memorial Museum. Due to the lack of maintenance over the years, architects found the building in very bad condition.

The whole building is made of wood, which is the traditional architectural style in Northern Guizhou villages. The Memorial Hall aims to hide between all the other wooden houses of Bing’an, creating inside a new and contrasting experience. The tenon-and-mortis...