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During the May Day holiday, I stayed in Hangzhou and didn’t go out to play.
On May 1st, the weather was very good. After eating takeaway at noon, I decided to go downstairs for a walk, enjoy the sun, and take a look at what stores Yuniaoji has stayed at. Record some unexpected discoveries.
one,
Yuniaoji is a newly opened commercial street in Liangzhu Cultural Village. It is close to the Da Roof Art Center and across the street from my residential area. You can see it in the study.
When I moved here six years ago, there was only a small commercial area opposite and the rest was wasteland. My parents came to Hangzhou to visit at that time, joking about how I bought the countryside. Whether you look at it from the perspective of the time or the current perspective, the cultural village is relatively biased. In addition to being cheap, the living environment and cultural atmosphere here were taken into consideration at the time. At that time, the Great Roof Art Center had just opened.
Great Roof Art Center @ 2017
Great Roof Art Center @ 2018
After that, there was no movement in this open space. Rapeseed flowers were planted in spring and sunflowers were planted in summer. When the flowers bloomed in the two seasons, it was also lively. On weekends, the entrance of the village was completely blocked.
Sunflower @ August 2018
Rapeseed Blossoms @ March 2020
It wasn’t until almost two years ago that the plan for Yuniaoji came out. Watch it break ground and build into what it is today. In April this year, various brands and merchants gradually settled in. This May Day is probably the first time that it will be fully open, and it will welcome many tourists.
two,
There is an independent building named “Big Barn” near the Big Roof Art Center in Yuniaoji. It was designed by architect Liu Yichun and houses the “One-Way Space” bookstore.
big barn
Inside the big barn, the speaker is writer Li Wei
Probably in order to welcome the May Day holiday and build momentum for the opening of Yuniaoji, the large roof combined with the one-way space planned a series of salon activities. Before I went for a stroll downstairs on May Day, I didn’t know about this at all. I met by chance, and by the way, I participated in a round table called ” Why We Build ” hosted by Zhang Yan (curator of the Big Roof Art Center), with Xu Zhiyuan and Liu Yichun as guests. Activity. The atmosphere at the scene was more casual, and some interesting anecdotes were heard.
why we build
Liangzhu Cultural Village was originally a project of Nandu, and was later acquired by Vanke. It turns out that Liu Yichun participated in the planning of the Cultural Village in 2005. In his plan, the Big Roof Art Center is a children’s art center. After Vanke took over the project, instead of using Liu Yichun’s plan, it cooperated with Tadao Ando to design the current large roof art center and the Meizhou Hall not far away. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, he came back here and designed the big barn.
Liu Yichun shared the story of their other project ” Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum “, which is very interesting.
The developer built this art museum, of course, to increase housing prices, but when the art museum was built, the surrounding houses were almost sold out. Finally, when we came to build the art museum, we didn’t pay much attention to it. The construction team changed wave after wave, and the duration was very long, resulting in a sense of layering on the facade of the building. This sense of layering was not part of the original design, but was generated by itself.
Liu Yichun contacted the developer to go to the site to see how the art museum was being built, but the developer was embarrassed and said that it was not finished and told him to wait, and the developer wanted to repair the façade. But Liu Yichun still came. After seeing the scene, he felt that the effect was very good, and persuaded the developer not to repair it. The developer listened to his suggestion with hesitation, after all, it can save costs.
Liu Yichun claimed that this was his least formal work, and as a result, it became popular and became a place for Internet celebrities to check in, and it also became a great public space.
Taizhou Museum of Contemporary Art – From the official website of Deshaus Architects
The motivation of the developer reminds me of the cultural village. There is no doubt that Vanke (and the government) have spent a lot of money on the public space in order to sell the houses in the cultural village at a good price. In addition to the large roof art center and Meilizhou Hall designed by Tadao Ando mentioned above, there is also the Liangzhu Museum designed by David Chipperfield, and even the community where I live is also a work of David Chipperfield & Associates. Both are Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. In addition, Liu Yichun’s big barn and small cultural village have gathered five works by three masters.
The houses in Wenhua Village have also been sold out, and Jade Bird Collection is probably the last big project of Wenhua Village.
three,
Liu Yichun and Xu Zhiyuan mentioned a concept many times: “encounter” (coincidence/encounter).
When Liu Yichun took over the big barn project, it was a vague proposition assignment. It had to be a public space, but it could not be a church or an art space. After all, there was already a Meizhou hall and a big roof. At the time of the initial design, it was not confirmed that the bookstore would settle in. It was during the construction process that the one-way space came in. Xu Zhiyuan said that the encounter between the big barn and the one-way space was an encounter, but Liu Yichun thought of another word, coincidence. The big barn happens to be a long building, very “one-way”.
Xu Zhiyuan admired this kind of chance encounter. He talked about the talent density of Vienna in the 19th century. Even sitting in a cafe and listening to people you don’t know chatting, you can still get inspired. In my opinion, it is another kind of chance encounter.
And I went downstairs for a walk on a whim that day and listened to their sharing, which was exactly this kind of chance encounter.
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