Nanjing Culture Complex by Yaohua Wang Architecture

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墙有两面性：内/外，新/旧，这里/那里。在此项目中，通过“模糊的墙”作用身体感官的体验，以达到混淆。建筑师旨在通过一个如同仪器的建筑，让城市能量在流通而过时，相互的界限被模糊。

建筑师对古城墙表达了敬意并进行了呼应，设计了恰到好处的散落在场地里的“残垣断壁”。这些墙从外围开始发展，在中部交汇并相应相谐的演变成剧院，公寓或者大商业中心。

沿着轴线，富有冲击力的通道将模糊带中的各种不同功能进行了分流。另一方面，从表象上则是一派完全相反的繁荣交互活动场景。这就是建筑师的初衷：奏一曲可视化的城市多重交响乐。这曲城市协奏乐通过模糊的墙形成回声效应，让不同场地的人们即使看不见也能相互感知。喧而不闹的声音，让声环境更为亲和。

建筑师期望建筑中的这些关键的“墙”能赋予城市器械性。通过墙的多重角色，模糊不同的城市活动及演出。然而，他就像任何其他仪器一样，需要由公众启动后，才能发挥出让举城同欢的效力。

A wall is a binary condition: in/out, old/new, here/there. Blurry Wall is a project that confuses these distinctions through conflicting bodily sensations. Our intention is to tune the architecture into an instrument that channels the different urban energies flowing through it, blurring the boundaries between them.

Relating to the historical Nanjing city wall, more and more walls are strewn on site. They tilt and cant into each other to form the blurry wall. Their placement  adapts to the site: each blurry wall starts from the perimeter but converges upon point intensities of defined program (theatre, apartments, etc) or large chambers. Their orientation is a nod to the originial wall, blurring the distinction between old and new. 

Distinctions between static and fluid program are also blurred: some walls droop to form circulatory scoops, creating shortcuts between the different programs while maintaining formal consistency of the blurred wall.

Along one axis, strong perspective visual corridors suggests blurry strips differentiated use. In the other, the visual logic reverses and one is bombarded with free perspective of activities overlayed over each other. The intention is to create a visual environment reflecting the complexity of the urban orchestra.

This idea of the urban orchestra is reinforced by the acoustic treatment of the blurry walls: some corridors are echo tunnels, multiplying the acoustic energy of the activities within. Thus, it is possible to hear the activities on the other end of the chamber even without being able to see it.Others are muffled, creating more intimate acoustic environments.

Our intention, thus, is to imagine architecture as an urban instrument played in the key of walls.By playing with the various meanings of walls, we wanted to blur together the different performances and activities of the urban stage. However, like any other instrument, it is inert until the public embraces and plays with it with glee and gusto.

Team: Yaohua Wang,Qin Cao, Scott Chung and Lennard Ong

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