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Yangyi Village Center: A Green Hill on the Water
Yangyi Village Center: A Green Hill on the Water
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Yangyi Village Center: A Green Hill on the Water
China
STATUS
Concept
YEAR
2027
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
(International Competition · First Prize)
A formless form.
A core echoing its surroundings.
A borderless commons.
An institutional hub, deinstitutionalized.
On the coast of Shanghai’s Nanhui New City, an islet in a water-village pond is our site — three weeping willows line its banks; the original structures lie in ruins. Villagers wished to rebuild a multifunctional community center.
Planning regulations required a minimum FAR of 1.5 and a design sympathetic to the village’s traditional character. Conventional practice would mimic vernacular water-town forms; yet at the required FAR, a built volume would smother nature and doom the willows. Instead, we dissolved the volume into the landscape — a green-veiled hill rising gently from the water as the village’s visual anchor; its contours defer to the willows, together composing the classical Chinese garden motif of “One Pond, Three Hills” — not a pastiche but a reinterpretation of an ancient archetype at civic scale.
Flexible layout responds to shifting village needs. Compact central service cores yield a free plan, switching between leisure, assembly, exhibition, and market. Every public space opens onto water through a fully openable perimeter.
Coastal climate poses a paradox: summer demands cooling ventilation; winter and typhoons demand shelter. Three interlocking Wind Paths — subterranean, vertical, horizontal — tap pond-cooled pre-conditioning, skylight-driven stack effect, and narrow-gap cross-ventilation for an estimated 35% HVAC saving versus code baseline; sealed, they become storm barriers. Earth-sheltered roof and cascading façade vines — a living echo of the shoreline weeping willows — form a dual microclimatic buffer while weaving a multi-layered habitat network.
Here, architecture gains force precisely by relinquishing discrete form — becoming landscape, infrastructure, and ecological commons at once. A paradigm for rural institutional architecture: not a fixed institutional volume, but a borderless habitat sheltering more than human life.
A formless form.
A core echoing its surroundings.
A borderless commons.
An institutional hub, deinstitutionalized.
On the coast of Shanghai’s Nanhui New City, an islet in a water-village pond is our site — three weeping willows line its banks; the original structures lie in ruins. Villagers wished to rebuild a multifunctional community center.
Planning regulations required a minimum FAR of 1.5 and a design sympathetic to the village’s traditional character. Conventional practice would mimic vernacular water-town forms; yet at the required FAR, a built volume would smother nature and doom the willows. Instead, we dissolved the volume into the landscape — a green-veiled hill rising gently from the water as the village’s visual anchor; its contours defer to the willows, together composing the classical Chinese garden motif of “One Pond, Three Hills” — not a pastiche but a reinterpretation of an ancient archetype at civic scale.
Flexible layout responds to shifting village needs. Compact central service cores yield a free plan, switching between leisure, assembly, exhibition, and market. Every public space opens onto water through a fully openable perimeter.
Coastal climate poses a paradox: summer demands cooling ventilation; winter and typhoons demand shelter. Three interlocking Wind Paths — subterranean, vertical, horizontal — tap pond-cooled pre-conditioning, skylight-driven stack effect, and narrow-gap cross-ventilation for an estimated 35% HVAC saving versus code baseline; sealed, they become storm barriers. Earth-sheltered roof and cascading façade vines — a living echo of the shoreline weeping willows — form a dual microclimatic buffer while weaving a multi-layered habitat network.
Here, architecture gains force precisely by relinquishing discrete form — becoming landscape, infrastructure, and ecological commons at once. A paradigm for rural institutional architecture: not a fixed institutional volume, but a borderless habitat sheltering more than human life.
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