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  Project Title

  The Garden of Forking Paths in Shunan Bamboo Sea

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  SZAD/Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Yunchao Xu

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  Awarded
  
  WINNER, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Environmental, Sustainable

• Project Location
  Yibin, China
• Project Status
  Conceptual


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  SZAD/Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron
• Lead Architect(s)
  Yunchao Xu

In the Shunan Bamboo Forrest in Sichuan of China, is there a unique geological landscape called Gem Lakes, which are small blue ponds formed by underground water containing copper sulfate. The site is right by a small Gem Lake in a bamboo forest around the village. Our client wants to donate a community center to host a variety of local cultural events. In this project, building disappears and nature reveals. Our primary strategy is to lead life into natural field by hand-making a bamboo building in its original way, where intersected arches generate a garden of forking paths.