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Librairie Avant-Garde (Bishan bookstore), a chinese painting brought to life

YUNHAI ZHAO

Interior  /  Completed
YUNHAI ZHAO

Huizhou culture is a scroll moistened by the smoky rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is the spiritual code engraved in the blood of Huizhou people. It takes white walls and tiles as paper, wood carvings and stone foundations as ink, and merchants and Confucians as pens, quietly writing in the green mountains and waters, telling the vicissitudes and splendor of a thousand years, and melting the heaviness of the farming civilization and the spirit of the wisdom of the merchants into a vein of the essence of traditional Chinese culture.

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Bishan Bookstore

Although the whole bookstore is a humanistic space, it cannot exist independently for the sake of humanity, our design should be integrated with nature. Stepping into the bookstore is like traveling through time and space, the patio is the soul of the family shrine, the four sides of the sky sprinkled with sunshine, rainwater dripping down the eaves, very beautiful, and the floor of the patio because of the rain watering moss, the summer drainage ditches are full of wild greenery, full of nature's vitality.

Bishan Bookstore

We have looked up the information to understand that the China has clear protection norms for different levels of cultural heritage buildings, and that the renewal of cultural heritage buildings is “to use cultural heritage buildings as a carrier, and to realize the revival of history and culture, as well as the continuation and sustainable development of civilization through revitalization”. Renewal itself needs to be based on respect for history and culture, reflecting human knowledge and understanding of the past.

Bishan Bookstore

When each old building is renewed, there is always comments that the new additions have changed the original old flavor, as if those peeling wallpaper, mildew and cracks are the only legitimate time certification, while the new glass, wood panels and lights are intruding into the history of the feast of the uninvited guests. But they forget that architecture is a living language - masonry will breathe, beams and trees will age, and even moss will spend the seasons again in the cracks of the bricks. Old buildings are never exhibits in a glass showcase, but a flowing memory. When the aroma of coffee diffuses from the beams and columns of the Qing Dynasty Ancestral Hall, those new stories are sprouting again in the brick crevices of the new era.

Bishan Bookstore
By transforming the aesthetics of Chinese painting into a design language, we use modern design techniques to convey the unique subtlety and poetry of oriental aesthetics, injecting a humanistic temperature into the entire space.

Credits

 huangshan
 中国
 Confidential
 01/2025
 396 m2
 Confidential
 YANG ZHI JIANG
 Cloud Ocean Design Co., Ltd (China, Singapore)
 Cloud Ocean Design Co., Ltd (China, Singapore)

Bio

Graduate student at the School of Architecture of Southeast University: Visiting Lecturer;
Politecnico di Milano Poli Design School: Visiting Lecturer;
Shortlisted for the Canadian AZ Award
Special Mention for the American Architizer A Awards
Italian A Design Award Gold
American IDA Design Award Design Award
American AIIDA Design Award Silver
British LONDON Design Award Platinum
Japan IDPA Design Award Pioneer Design Award - Top 100 Global Designers
French GPDP Design Award - Top 10 Global Designers
Golden Bund Gold Award
Selected Designer of the Year in China Interior Design Annual
Andrew Martin's "Discovering China's Good Design" Annual 100 Selected Designer

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