Idea by
Xiang Ren and Jing Qiao
Studio Cloud
Call for ideas 2021
Architecture of Nearness
Architecture of Nearness
- Systemic changes
This project suggests a familiar yet COVID-secured spatial organisation for a multi-storey public building, being an office or a school, horizontally developed and vertically blurred by an internal social-stair-landscape, without relying on using vertical mechanical instruments like lifts as before the global pandemic, but with a reclaimed emphasise on human contact and care in the post-pandemic world. The 9m*9m grid system in prefab materials, restrained by each site boundary and potential underground carpark, lightly touches the land and allows the familiarity and flexibility of the space by different user groups and under different conditions of different urban landscapes.
Architecture of Nearness
Architecture of Nearness
- Systemic changes
This project suggests a familiar yet COVID-secured spatial organisation for a multi-storey public building, being an office or a school, horizontally developed and vertically blurred by an internal social-stair-landscape, without relying on using vertical mechanical instruments like lifts as before the global pandemic, but with a reclaimed emphasise on human contact and care in the post-pandemic world. The 9m*9m grid system in prefab materials, restrained by each site boundary and potential underground carpark, lightly touches the land and allows the familiarity and flexibility of the space by different user groups and under different conditions of different urban landscapes.