arthas qian architect

Or get a High-res movie HERE “I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.” Written by Wallace Stevens, almost 100 years ago. What a beautiful moment when the human action of placing a little jar brought a whole new scenario of order in the wild mountain. 100 years later, from Tennessee to Shenzhen, the wildness of nature became the wildness of urbanization, the 20th century’s jar became, the…

Chess is more than game, a chess house is more than a shelter Chess touches the deep field of thinking, a chess house is a place to contain the tension in space that can never be touched, nor seen. The simple play of several geometry volume, defining the inside and outside, light and shadow, coincidently fell into a shape of key. This is not a design intention of metaphor, this is perhaps a crash in the deep field of think: chess is the…

This project is done through a smart study of the materiality of one single type of unit: the egg crate. As a paper material, the egg crate contains great architectural capacity: its surface performs super strong in resisting compression from the perpendicular direction, while it is easily deformed when receiving compression from other direction. As a individual piece it’s strong, while joining many pieces to form a surface is problematic. We invented a smart way to reform the egg crate unit…

Right located on the border of Hong Kong and Shen Zhen, the Lok Ma Chau Loop is an unique area in the world considering its ecological and political complexity. Sandwiched by the intricate relationship of the two city in terms of economy and ideology that evolving through the history, the whole area, however, is still remained as a contaminated mud land. Falling in its retroactive double identity, the ownership of the area is belong to Shen Zhen, while the management…

Celebrating his 80th birthday, my grandfather commissioned me to renovate his estate in Beijing’s country side. Devoting the most part of his life as a pioneer in the field of insurance and finance for his nation, nostalgically, he choose to live a life following the traditional Chinese spirit, farming, reading and writing. The design and construction of this house is restricted within a low budget, while still facing to solve several practical problems: thickening the existing wall to get better…

This is a landscape urbanism proposal in a huge empty area of Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong, aiming to activate the whole area in connection with the nearby sky-city and Tung Chong City Gate. As a formal strategy, the whole site was defined in terms of point, edge and surface that inter-weaved together as a continuous yet differentiated landscape to accommodate all sorts of programs including museum, performance center, shopping mall, library and sports.

A watch tower designed at the border of Hong Kong and Shen Zhen, a cafe which allows the visitor from the both side rest and enjoy the view of the both side. The enclosed space is formed by a few boxes stacked together, a framework skin with varieties of porosities on different directions provides another layer of shelter. Climbing up from the stairs that sewed the stacked boxes together, the visitor goes through a sequence of spatial experience between inside…

this is a house located in HK while embedded with the design concept of FLW