Architect designs in Utopia: Harmony with nature

By Deng Zhangyu | China Daily | Updated: 2018-05-12 11:41
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Shimen Bridge transformed from a discarded bridge, all designed by Xu Tiantian. [Photo provided to China Daily]

The bamboo pavilion is an open space in a tea garden in Songyang, where both tourists and farmers can step in to have a break. The bamboo theater in a bamboo forest has the same openness, with no doors and no windows. Only a dome structure connected by bamboos defines the open space under it as a theater.

"I would not design a marquee building in rural areas," Xu says. "It must fit in with the surroundings and serve locals well."

When she designed a memorial hall for Wang village in Songyang locals asked her to build a fancy one like those they had seen in big cities, she says, but she refused.

She is fond of employing the concept of modern space to redesign a building's interior while choosing local materials for its exterior, such as bamboo and stones from waterways.

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