2023
Laureates
Experimenting with a particular site, with a program in evolution, with designs that need to adapt through time, and with construction formats and materials that must resist time is something that architects must struggle with every day. Our goal is to make our projects significant, yes, meaningful, and to let them serve as a starting point for other ideas and aspirations to emerge. »
Teaching at the interface between technology and creativity is a special way of thinking experimentally together. We are investigating new ways of combining the self and the environment, or the resources and materials that make up the environment and the people who live within it. »
Experimentation in rural China means engaging not only with vernacular building techniques and materials but also with history and tradition, which can restore local identity and fuel an inner drive that motivates our villagers and their communities.
Through deliberate destruction, radical changes in context, and seemingly contradictory additions, a new field of tension arises between present, past, and future that activates built heritage.
Instead of making distinctions between town, country, and nature, we conceive the optimal living environment. We experiment participatory developments that offer realistic alternatives to real-estate products based on the logic of standardization, production, commercialization, and profit.