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Artworks
Chang Liu
Modern Concepts within Local Chinese Traditions: A Chinese Liquor Chateau in Sichuan IIIdigital print, framed30 x 30 cm£ 35.00The Modernist movement had never involved China and after 1979, the appreciation of concrete has been prevailing in major cities. Facing the current conditions of Chinese traditions in architecture, which...The Modernist movement had never involved China and after 1979, the appreciation of concrete has been prevailing in major cities. Facing the current conditions of Chinese traditions in architecture, which require lots of skilled woodworkers, masons along with natural building materials, architects were forced to inherit the traditional characters through modern glass and concrete. The complexity in façades, exquisite decoration and colourful paints are passive in these changes. However, is it possible to find the modern within these traditions?
This building, a Chinese liquor chateau located in Sichuan would discuss the stereotype model Siheyuan (四合院), a historical type of residence, while focusing on building a Siheyuan inside another. It includes the spatial scales, light, wind, roofs and even people’s lifestyle from the past. But is this traditional Chinese architecture or modern, as a series of adoptions, adaptations, and translations?
Designed by Chang Liu from Chomansim Artelier, who expresses thoughts of the modern within Chinese traditions, both conflicting and harmonising.
