We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer AART. AT Design about their original and creative Mixed Use Architecture design work. AART. AT Design is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original mixed use architecture works.
AART. AT Design ("AAD") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Shan Shui Plaza Mixed Use Architecture. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
AAD : Inspired by traditional Chinese paintings, and the spirit of the Chinese landscape, the project aims to translate this spirit into the contemporary city and life. In order to design a sign of "spiritual Paradise".
AAD : To connect the developing urban city with the wonderful natural landscape around. Make nature look like architecture, in the city, especially with a spiritual, cultural significance for such a historic city.
AAD : Well execute this project, and from there, develop systems Continue to think and develop systems of concepts for the purpose of connecting architecture and the natural landscape.
AAD : Around two months.
AAD : The design was commissioned by a client.
AAD : If architecture is design space for life, we try to think about how to offer a peaceful life for the citizens live here. The site is lying between a huge nature-park and the city, it encourage us to think about the relationship of nature and city life. Specially, in our Age, citizens live more and more in the virtual online world. And being a human, we need real contact with nature. So we try to interpreter the Chinese landscape philosophy in this project, in order to offer some new kinds of living space.
AAD : it's a architecture design for our client: SHAANXI TENGWEI INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD
AAD : the thinking of the relationship between nature and human, in our digital Age
AAD : The name of the project is Shan Shui Plaza. ShanShui means Mountain and Water in Chinese. And the philosophy of mountain and water holds an essential meaning of the relationship between human and nature. So by this name, it express our concept of connecting the city and the nature in a “poetic way”.
AAD : The most unique aspect of the design is translating the Chinese landscape philosophy and reinventing the relationship between human and nature.
AAD : We did this projects with the architects of our team
AAD : the new modelling technology for design, and for construction help a lot for this project
AAD : Not really
AAD : It was difficult to integrate the mixed use functions into the architectural modelling, in order to express the concept of " Shan-Shui" Plaza, at the same time, make the space organization reasonable. We did many research on plan, on modelling...
AAD : We were lucky to have received several international prize before. And each time, it was a good chance to exchange with some excellents designers all over the world. And we appreciate well the organisation of A Design Award, so submit our project on it.
AAD : It's a good chance to think about the Chinese landscape philosophy and contemporary architectural design, to think about their relationship. And how it can improve our today's city life, in this digital Age。
AAD : We hope to call more architects to think about fundamentals, original questions of architecture, when they design. It concerns human, the nature and the city. Architecture changes the life, and we need to think about the needs of today's life. It's important !
