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WILDERNESS: ARTISCOVERED LANDSCAPE

Theme: Converted factory site, landscape art park The design project is located at the abandoned pilot power plant at the north gate of Tsinghua University (Beijing), with the waterfront space of the university river to the east. On top of the abandoned power plant, we hope to create an art complex on the campus boundary, […]

Theme: Converted factory site, landscape art park

The design project is located at the abandoned pilot power plant at the north gate of Tsinghua University (Beijing), with the waterfront space of the university river to the east. On top of the abandoned power plant, we hope to create an art complex on the campus boundary, including artist studios, art exhibition spaces, students’ art activity centers and other diversified and rich art spaces. The design hopes to recreate the ‘original and wild’ landscape of the North Gate in the past, using the grass roof slope to cover the old power plant site, linking the east and west landscapes of the site through the natural undulation of the grass slope, and at the same time creating an open and integrated art space above and below the grass slope. The lower part of the slope is an art production space, the upper part of the slope is an art exhibition space, and the grass slope itself becomes a public outdoor exhibition space. Wilderness(原野, in Chinese), “Artiscovered Landscape”, means landscape space covered with art.

In the 1990s, the north gate of Tsinghua University was a vast wheat field where a group of artists from the Yuanmingyuan Painter's Village gathered to form a spontaneous artists' colony. Due to the nature of the campus boundary and the frequent exchanges that took place, the artists' colony brought a free artistic atmosphere to the university students, and Lu Gengxu and Li Jian from the “Shuimu Nianhua” (One of a Chinese famous singing group) also lived there for a short period of time. With the expansion of the city and campus, the North Gate Art Group disappeared. In the policy changes, this group of artists mostly followed the partners to Tongzhou (Suburbs of Beijng). The cultural and artistic atmosphere that had already been formed at Tsinghua North Gate infected a very large number of artists' groups, causing them to come to Tsinghua University's North Gate to meet and build up the overall ideological atmosphere of Tsinghua North Gate. Here, they experienced the transformation of their lives and left indelible footprints of their thoughts. Based on this historical character of the site, we hope to set up a relaxed and comfortable art park at the boundary of the campus to provide new creators with a material space for creation, and at the same time use the original site of the factory building to build an open and large-scale art exchange area to take over a certain part of the time-honored cultural landscape.

“Artiscovered Landscape” means landscape space covered with art. We focus on ecologically sustainable architectural design, adopting an integrated architectural landscape design, with large green roofs that create public space for users and contribute to the carbon sink of the city. For the original building of the factory, we adopted a “light intervention” strategy, preserving the original structure and materials to the greatest extent possible, and at the same time implanting new functions. In order to solve the problem of overcrowding and clutter of the original buildings within the site, we tried to bury most of the functions of the reconstructed buildings into the ground, and a large area of ground landscape art floated on the former site of the power plant, attempting to reshape the original atmosphere of the site at the boundary of the North Gate of Tsinghua, providing a stage for

artistic collisions and cultural exchanges among different groups of people, with the lawn covering the original factory and a large number of creative spaces. The lawn covers the original factory and a lot of creative space. Under the landscape is a rich space for creation and art exchange, where people stroll freely to appreciate the art works, and occasionally have a glimpse of the unexpected.

In this design, based on the functionality and history of the site, we try to use a touch of wild green to revitalize the abandoned power plant and restore the vibrant and enthusiastic artistic atmosphere of the North Gate of Tsinghua. Such a design originates from the students at North Gate, the elderly at North Gate, the artists at North Gate, and everyone at Tsinghua North Gate, and we also hope that it can serve everyone around Tsinghua, with a green and open attitude. This is also our common architectural ideal.

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Theme: Converted factory site, landscape art park

The design project is located at the abandoned pilot power plant at the north gate of Tsinghua University (Beijing), with the waterfront space of the university river to the east. On top of the abandoned power plant, we hope to create an art complex on the campus boundary, including artist studios, art exhibition spaces, students’ art activity centers and other diversified and rich art spaces. The design hopes to recreate the ‘original and wild’ landscape of the North Gate in the past, using the grass roof slope to cover the old power plant site, linking the east and west landscapes of the site through the natural undulation of the grass slope, and at the same time creating an open and integrated art space above and below the grass slope. The lower part of the slope is an art production space, the upper part of the slope is an art exhibition space, and the grass slope itself becomes a public outdoor exhibition space. Wilderness(原野, in Chinese), “Artiscovered Landscape”, means landscape space covered with art.

In the 1990s, the north gate of Tsinghua University was a vast wheat field where a group of artists from the Yuanmingyuan Painter's Village gathered to form a spontaneous artists' colony. Due to the nature of the campus boundary and the frequent exchanges that took place, the artists' colony brought a free artistic atmosphere to the university students, and Lu Gengxu and Li Jian from the “Shuimu Nianhua” (One of a Chinese famous singing group) also lived there for a short period of time. With the expansion of the city and campus, the North Gate Art Group disappeared. In the policy changes, this group of artists mostly followed the partners to Tongzhou (Suburbs of Beijng). The cultural and artistic atmosphere that had already been formed at Tsinghua North Gate infected a very large number of artists' groups, causing them to come to Tsinghua University's North Gate to meet and build up the overall ideological atmosphere of Tsinghua North Gate. Here, they experienced the transformation of their lives and left indelible footprints of their thoughts. Based on this historical character of the site, we hope to set up a relaxed and comfortable art park at the boundary of the campus to provide new creators with a material space for creation, and at the same time use the original site of the factory building to build an open and large-scale art exchange area to take over a certain part of the time-honored cultural landscape.

“Artiscovered Landscape” means landscape space covered with art. We focus on ecologically sustainable architectural design, adopting an integrated architectural landscape design, with large green roofs that create public space for users and contribute to the carbon sink of the city. For the original building of the factory, we adopted a “light intervention” strategy, preserving the original structure and materials to the greatest extent possible, and at the same time implanting new functions. In order to solve the problem of overcrowding and clutter of the original buildings within the site, we tried to bury most of the functions of the reconstructed buildings into the ground, and a large area of ground landscape art floated on the former site of the power plant, attempting to reshape the original atmosphere of the site at the boundary of the North Gate of Tsinghua, providing a stage for

artistic collisions and cultural exchanges among different groups of people, with the lawn covering the original factory and a large number of creative spaces. The lawn covers the original factory and a lot of creative space. Under the landscape is a rich space for creation and art exchange, where people stroll freely to appreciate the art works, and occasionally have a glimpse of the unexpected.

In this design, based on the functionality and history of the site, we try to use a touch of wild green to revitalize the abandoned power plant and restore the vibrant and enthusiastic artistic atmosphere of the North Gate of Tsinghua. Such a design originates from the students at North Gate, the elderly at North Gate, the artists at North Gate, and everyone at Tsinghua North Gate, and we also hope that it can serve everyone around Tsinghua, with a green and open attitude. This is also our common architectural ideal.

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