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Dongziguan Villagers' Activity Center / gad · line+ studio

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COMMUNITY CENTER • HANGZHOU, CHINA
Architects: gad · line+ studio
Area:  686 m²
Year:  2017
Photographs:  Yilong Zhao, Fanhao Meng
Manufacturers: 富阳中泰钢结构有限公司

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Text description provided by the architects. The site is located at the junction of the old and new villages,
north of Dongziguan affordable housing in Fuyang.The project, as a public venue for villagers' activities,
takes the local regional culture as its unique background, and strives to create a “Vitality Source” for
villagers to jointly build and share.
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The activity center has two floors. The first floor is open to the outside and the second floor is partially
connected. It has the dual functions of weddings, funerals and villagers' spontaneous activities. The open
space characteristics meet the functional requirements under different conditions, together with the life
of the villagers and the continuous ups and downs of the roof to jointly build a "micro-small world under
the big roof."

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Compared with the use of the majority of villagers' activity centers in the contemporary period that have
lost their vigor due to long-term closure, this design hopes to continue the unique vitality of the village
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through open and lively space scenes. With a flowing spatial system, localized material language, and
spontaneous construction methods, the tangible space carrier and intangible place spirit are merged into
the construction logic of the space itself, injecting new vitality into the village.

As a public activity venue for all villagers in Dongziguan, the design hopes to carry the diversity, richness,
and subtlety of life with smaller scale units. From chess and card screenings, sports activities, to the
peddling, the context of daily life is subdivided into relatively independent small scenes.

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The people passing through can freely shuttle and stay in the gray space connecting inside and outside,
while the air, light and nature are virtually become the background of public life. When it comes to
important and crowded occasions such as gatherings, theatre, weddings and funerals, the space can be
re-integrated through a reasonable layout.

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The entire space is covered under a continuous steel roof with timber wrapped outside. The roof is
designed with multiple skylights to meet the lighting needs, and also introduces the natural
surroundings. Low hanging eaves and extensions define a space that can calm people down.

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With the combination of small-scale units and corridors of different heights, the spatial sequence has
begun to become three-dimensional and rich. The grey-brick wall is in a prismatic convex and concave
arrangement and is topped with dark colored stone. It is hand-polished by local villagers, with the
common local building materials, showing the integration of natural, traditional and contemporary life,
and also mapping out the familiar scenes of the villagers.

The attribution of sense of value is also reflected in the way of construction. The villagers' activity center
is the practice of public and the storage of memory, which is jointly participated by the villagers'
construction team and finally put into use. Such a construction mode can stimulate or even
spontaneously form public activities, and the building on the other hand, serves as a medium to promote
the maximum connection between people.

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Project location
Address: Dongziguan Village, Fuyang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

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