Bambus
Flechtwerke aus Gras, Drei Bauten aus China
Eduard Kögel
in: werk, bauen + wohnen, 4/2024
Flechtwerke aus Gras, Drei Bauten aus China
Eduard Kögel
in: werk, bauen + wohnen, 4/2024
Eduard Kögel: Jinyun Quarries, in Architectural Practice 12/2022, p. 142–151.
Eduard Kögel: Nadelstiche der Provokation: Songyang – ein neues lokales Selbstverständnis, in archithese 3.2022
September 2022
Catalogue Xu Tiantian, Jinyun Quarries, The Quarry as Stage, Aedes Berlin
The mountainous landscape of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China, has been shaped by the manual mining of natural stone. For the rugged and hard-to-access region, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her team were asked to develop strategies for new uses for nine of the over 3000 small, abandoned quarries, which now provide a stage for cultural and social activities, and simultaneously strive for ecological improvements and create new economic perspectives for the rural population. The pits, provided with new functions, have become part of a public infrastructure that puts historical aspects extending back over a thousand years as well as the everyday culture heritage in a new context. The exhibition, which reached us from Beijing by the most sustainable means of transport possible, namely by train, communicates the breath-taking sense of space in the stone quarries of Jinyun in a large-scale installation. Spacious, translucent models, photos, plans, and films visualize the complex structure of the spaces carved into the rock.
Exhibition 19 March – 5 May 2022
Opening Friday, 18 March 2022
The mountainous landscape of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China, has been shaped by the manual mining of natural stone. For the rugged and hard-to-access region, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her team were asked to develop strategies for new uses for nine of the over 3000 small, abandoned quarries, which now provide a stage for cultural and social activities, and simultaneously strive for ecological improvements and create new economic perspectives for the rural population. The pits, provided with new functions, have become part of a public infrastructure that puts historical aspects extending back over a thousand years as well as the everyday culture heritage in a new context. The exhibition, which reached us from Beijing by the most sustainable means of transport possible, namely by train, communicates the breath-taking sense of space in the stone quarries of Jinyun in a large-scale installation. Spacious, translucent models, photos, plans, and films visualize the complex structure of the spaces carved into the rock.
Architectural acupuncture works: how architect Xu Tiantian’s interventions change communal life in rural China and what lessons can be learned from them
1st edition, 2020, Text in English, Hardcover, 272 pages, 139 color and 72 b/w illustrations and plans, 29.5 x 29.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-186-9
Online Discussion BIFT, Beijing
ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY FORUM SERIES 2020
TIME – SPACE RELATIONS : HOW TO APPROACH SPACE TIME?
4. JULY 2020
Ausstellungseröffnung, Vorträge, Diskussion
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Rural Moves – The Songyang Story“
Begrüßung: Angelika Fitz, Direktorin Az W; Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Direktor Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin
Einführung: Eduard Kögel, Kurator, Berlin; Liu Shouying, Rural Economist, Peking
Vorträge: Xu Tiantian, DnA_Design and Architecture, Peking; Roland Gruber, Landluft – Verein zur Förderung von Baukultur in ländlichen Räumen
Podiumsdiskussion: Roland Gruber, Eduard Kögel, Liu Shouying, Xu Tiantian
Eröffnung: Angelika Fitz, Direktorin Az W; Kristin Feireiss, Direktorin Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin; LI Xiaosi, Chinesischer Botschafter in Österreich