gad · line+ studio

The project text humbly tells of the team’s aim to return the site to its rural integrity and local traditional building ways, away from the usual domination of design techniques. Yet the contemporary intervention succeeds in creating a strong independent design expression which successfully augments and strengthens the beauty of the site itself. The structures and plantings merge in creating densely atmospheric spaces.

The project is located in a factory by the Qiantang River. In China, the traditional factory design is mostly a large-area “barracks” layout and a “matchbox” space sequence to emphasize high efficiency. However, the original intention of the factory design is to get rid of the closed space pattern to emphasize and pursue spiritual aesthetics. […]

The project is located in the eastern foot of Mogan Village, and is born between five original valleys. The site retains the existing farmland texture and the long valley view corridor, which is characterized by the original rice field hometown, and creates the field flavor of crisscross paths in the valleys. Mogan Academy is not […]