The Chinese people pay attention to the harmonious unity between man and nature. As for a place for the elderly, they pay more attention to the full integration with the environment. Ningbo Xikou Da?ai Academy Town, designed by MCM Architecture, is located in the Village of Zhuangyuanao, Xikou Town, Ningbo, surrounded by mountains. It is backed by Huajian Mountain and Bogu Mountain. The terrain is high, and sometimes the clouds are steaming like thick ink and sometimes like a traditional Chinese painting, and the surrounding mountains and colorful walls are reflected in the water. In the water, people, architecture and nature are integrated into one, like a landscape painting that is slowly unfolding.
Photography: Chen Wei
In the design of this case, in order to make people, architecture and nature more unified, MCM have done a multi-layer retreat method, detailing the details in order to eliminate the details, axis symmetry in order to reduce the visual noise, and finally let the building return to the concept of old-age health and ecology. Ideas, such as the thinking in Kengo Kuma’s “Negative Architecture”: Buildings grow in nature, should be integrated into nature, and humbly retreat or even “disappear”. This is the town, a warmer, more civilized living environment than the city. Photography: Chen Wei
Daai Academy Town adheres to the strategic concept of the national characteristic town and builds a diversified and networked health living co...