Designed by China Architecture – United Design U10 Atelier, HaiLongtun relics between the mountains located in the north of Gui Zhou. From the five dynasties to the Ming dynasty, the leader family ?Yang? of this region built the castle defense and palace, governing the north area of Gui Zhou province. All of these had been burned to ash in many attacks in the 17th century. Today, the remaining stone wall and base will be protected as the common heritage of mankind.
Photography: Guangyuan Zhang
This is a renovation project. A project is a three-floors building with grey tile facing, located at the gateway of Long yan mountaintop. The parapet form is similar to the Great Wall, and the outer arches look like the caves in miniature., it is very difficult to define the form of this building.
The construction of this building began with the tourism planning a few years ago. After completion, this building has not really put into use and been wasted so far. Our work is to reform it to a multi-purpose temporary building with the functions of relics exhibition, visitor center, and office room, as the unique entrance of the ruins of Hai-long Tun. Finally letting everything back to its original appearance and leaving one channel for understanding.
Photography: Guangyuan Zhang
?Vanishing? is a renovation strategy of this project. In addition to the demolition of a building, change shape is also a solution to make the building less visible. We use layer upon layer bamboo wall to ...