"Yan" Ancestral Hall

Yulin, China

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"Yan" Ancestral Hall

Yulin, China

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M.O.D.E.S

Type

Cultural › Memorial

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2016

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

The “‘Yan’ Ancestral Hall” looks into the feasibility of a “low-tech” materialization strategy for non-standard architectural design in a broader China’s context. The site is in China’s rural village where even conventional material quality and labor skills are deficient. So, in this design, the local clay brick was preferred as the main building material, and recycled roof tiles from the previous building were reused.
The design challenge of this project was the front façade, a morphologic deformation of the client’s family name “闫” (Yan). M.O.D.E.S generated the pattern projection presented with brick length iterations on the west elevation.
This project illustrates the feasibility of “low-tech” implementation of a digitally designed non-standard brick façade in China’s rural area and uses computation capacity to bypass and control vernacular limitations. It emphasizes the digital thinking and the workflow reformation in a conventional materialization technique, which led to an explorative result.

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"Yan" Ancestral Hall

Yulin, China

Other Projects by M.O.D.E.S

The "plug-in" life

"Yan" Ancestral Hall

Yulin, China

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