Concept

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Architects: TengYuan Design Institute Co., Ltd. WAT Studio

Location: Qixing District, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, China

Architect In Charge: Peng Wei

Design Team: Guang jun Zhao, Zhen ming Wang,Bo Zhang, Wei Wang

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Yuanfu Ou

Structural Engineer: Xing Xing

Mep Consultant: Zhiguang Qu, Juan Wang

Main Contractor: Uashi Decoration Co. Ltd.

Selected Subcontractors: SBG South Bright Glass Co. Ltd.

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ConceptThe connotative relationship between architecture and nature as well as architecture and culture always attracts the attention of the architects as a key focus. In this project, we hope to establish a linkage between architecture and nature as well as architecture and culture in a simple and plain way. Just as art and literature both have sketches, this project is a construction sketch to some extent. It doesn?t mean that the sketch has neither technical difficulty nor thought depth. Instead, it just doesn?t need to spare no pains and give mature consideration to all aspects of a question. Sketch is a flash in high spirits, which means without too much hesitation when selecting from big things through small ones. From landscape to architecture, we hope this house can express the scenery and breath of nature in an implicit way, which is complex but temperate, free but rhythmic. Thus, human, na...