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In Chinese culture, “Jiangnan” as a spatial concept has always been an important bearer of wonderful life. Jiangnan towns are rich in traditional spaces, among which the “garden” is undoubtedly the type that best reflects the ideals and aesthetics of the traditional Chinese habitat. For Chinese people, a garden that forms its own heaven and earth is the unity of “heaven and human”, the balance of “city and wild”, and the resting place of “body and mind”. For an architect who has been immersed in the culture of Jiangnan, when it comes to Jiangnan, garden is the most appropriate expression.
Therefore, we decided to create a garden in way of spatial installation, shaping the purity of the space with simple materials, so that the visitors can obtain the essential interest of the garden space.
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The size of the exhibition area is only 16m * 6m, which makes it almost impossible to create a garden with rich tour experience in such a small site. For this reason, we condensed the scale of the tour to a single person one-way, mainly emphasizing the exploring experience of the head and the eyes.
Through the condensation of space, the Garden for the eyes focused its experience on the senses themselves, taking the meaning of “Wandering around and enjoy yourself”. The spatial design was derived from the localized spatial structure of Zuibaichi (a park right beside the Yunjian Huitang Cultural and Art Center where the exhibition was held), taking courtyard, bridge, well and corridor as the basic spatial elements, and reinterpreting from the perspectives of scene, space and sequence.
Through the contraction of the scale, the work transforms the space of human behavior in the natural environment to adapt to the smallest scale of the human body. After the abstract reorganization, the garden hangs at the height of upper half of the body, allowing only one person to walk in one direction.
The upper half of the human body was shrouded in the coverings, where people need to crane their necks to watch the courtyard, bridge lower than their knees, wells close to their eyebrows, corridor barely wide enough for only one shoulder. While wandering in the garden, one can be free from distractions, using eyes instead of body, the perception of the world converging with each turning of his head.
The work is not only an exhibit but also an exhibition space. The installation deconstructed and reconstructed the experience of wandering in the garden, as a container for presenting paintings. The abstraction of the garden makes the space purer, shifting the visual focus to the paintings, which become the clues, guiding people's exploration of the space through incessant hints and repeated guidance. Every turning in the course of eye-wandering is a reconstruction of the space-time scene.
Simplicity is splendor. In order to achieve the artistic effect of an abstract garden, the choice of materials was kept to a minimalist level. The entire installation is almost totally composed of handmade paper, which has a fiber texture close to nature, and gives people a warm feeling.
The exhibition not only refines the culture of Jiangnan creation in the form of installation, landscape, image and video, but also provides a rich interface for the public to experience the new Jiangnan space in an all-round way through a variety of forms such as lectures, art gatherings, bazaars, city walks and online and offline activities.
c+d studio is a vibrant and creative design group that, over the past two decades, has leveraged China’s rapid development as an opportunity to explore contemporary issues from multiple dimensions, including modernity and development, globalization and locality, critique and heritage.
We consistently approach contemporary urban and architectural challenges from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective. We believe that the built environment is an indivisible whole and oppose treating spaces and places in an isolated or fragmented manner. We are convinced that inclusivity and diversity are foundational to sustainable development, and sustainability should not overly rely on technology alone.
We focus on the quality of public spaces, the role of genius loci in personal growth and development, the importance of operations and usage. We value communication and sharing, and believe that excellent designs can help a lot in cultivating unique identities and charm.
