Reported by: Mu Ye
Translated by: KANG Ran
Edited by:
Date: September 15th, 2017
Recently, 2017 “Guyu Cup” National College Students’ Sustainable Architectural Design Contest came to an end in Nanjing University. The work named Umbrella designed by Wu Haorui, Hu Yiming, Yang Zitao and Sun Yuzhuo, students of the School of Architecture of HIT, won the only grand prize of the contest. Other works of HIT students won all the other prizes, including three first prizes, one second prize and one excellence award. It is understood that in 2014, students of HIT once won the grand prize of this contest.
Bu Chong and Liu Ying, supervisors of the team of the grand prize, said that the contest took Agriculture and Tourism, Present and Future, Reality and Imagination, Tradition and Ecology – “Rural Living Room” Design as the theme, aiming to guide the students major in architecture to pay attention to rural development and to apply their professional knowledge to promote the construction of “new countryside” and “beautiful countryside”. According to members of the team, the design was located in a humid and rainy village in Luzhou, Sichuan Province. The idea of this work was to try to find a prototype of the architecture from the shape of a traditional Chinese character, “傘”, meaning umbrella in English, with oil paper umbrella having a long history as the breaking point. After confirming the basic form, they borrowed stage elements in the traditional villages of Sichuan as the core space of the architecture. As for the selection of materials, the team mainly used local bamboo, which is also the raw material of the oil paper umbrella skeleton. What’s more, they also took inspiration and picked elements from the documentary scroll of the ancient life, “Double Screen Chess Playing” and the local teahouse culture, to assembly space and response to the culture.
It is reported that the National College Students’ Sustainable Architectural Design Contest is the highest level of national competition for students major in architecture, which is sponsored by the National Special Committee on Architecture Education of University and is held once a year. This contest takes the public service facilities under “the mutual development of agriculture and tourism” as its theme, studies its dual functions in agriculture and tourism and explores the architecture and space forms with the digital technology and the appropriate low-carbon energy saving technologies.
Work of the Grand Prize
