Spiral Art Gallery I by Atelier Deshaus
25/03/2013.
[Jiading New Town - Shanghai] China
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA
Memory of project by Atelier Deshaus
The intention of the spiral is to establish a way to see the scenery. A gestalt is invaded by a spiral with an inner space of privacy and some primitive senses. Interior space is gradually transforming from public to private, most importantly, creating one way to enter the building from the scenery. You may enter the annular space directly, or step onto the roof, and enter this building in the constantly changing spot, angle and height of the view. There would be a pleasure of promenade, which arises from rhythm alternating between open and closed and within the intentionally elongated path. This is an abstract method of gardens. Thus, in this place, seeing the scenery is also a way to enter the architecture.
Atelier Deshaus was founded in Shanghai in 2001. The principal, Liu Yichun was born in 1969, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1997. The principal, Chen Yifeng was born in 1972, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1998.
While winning the architecture awards such as Business Weeks/Architectural Record China Awards (2006), WA Chinese Architecture Awards (2006&2010), FAR EAST Architecture Awards (2010), Deshaus has been involved recently in major international exhibitions on contemporary Chinese Architecture in Shanghai, Paris, Dusseldorf, Bordeaux, Beijing, Shenzhen, Rotterdam, London, Cincinnati, Brussels, Barcelona, Cadiz, Venice, Prague, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc. In 2011, Atelier Deshaus was selected by Architectural Record to be one of the 10 firms in year’s Design Vanguard.
Deshaus believes that pragmatic solutions related to contemporary architecture in China requires a rational approach that is linked to a personal touch. The rational and personalized attempt is closely related to its reproduction of the poetical tradition. Deshaus begins by contemplating on who they are and where they are, and sharply observes what is missing in the history of Chinese modern architecture and searches for the new understanding of reason (Li) which does not cut off its relationship with the traditional philos of poetics and ethics (Qing). Such an ambition requires the engagement in memory through art from a cross-culture perspective, the fusion of Li and Qing.