A Night Out: Hangzhou Health and Leisure Night Park Design

Artist: Gan Zihan (School of Architecture)

Instructor: Shao Jian

We work during the day and rest at night. Our nighttime activities revolve around the theme of leisure. Bars, clubs, and KTV studios have become the predominant nighttime settings in our stressful and fast-paced lives. With the rise of Fitness-for-All activities, people are increasingly looking for a healthy outdoor night life and nighttime sports and leisure activities. Unfortunately, there is a lack of nighttime parks that meet such targeted demands. Inspired by Hangzhou's nighttime culture and the contemporary desire for a healthy night life, the artist has created a design concept for a modern urban park located next to Wushan Museum.

The Reconstruction of a Green Living Space and the Integration of Caiyuanqian Market

Artist: Hong Yumeng (School of Architecture)

Instructor: Su Yimin

This graduation work is a redesign and reinvention of the streets and facilities at the foot of Mt. Wu, in the ancient city of Hangzhou into a green network. Caiyuanqian Market, which serves as a node in the network, is reimagined as a residents' market and a green lifestyle hub that connects Mt. Wu, the market, Taimiao Square, and the city. The newly renovated market serves as a bridge connecting the future and the past as well as a beacon for green living, paving the way for a richer, healthier, more integrated and more sustainable lifestyle. By updating parts of the market while preserving its main structure, Hong reinvents the market's relationship to the rest of the city and reshapes the urban network of public spaces. The historical building − albeit one that was not designated as a heritage building for conservation − is saved from its fate of being demolished as new life is injected into the traditional market.

Slices of Life, In Juxtaposition: The Reconstruction of Memories in Overlapping Memory Spaces

Artist: Xia Xinni (School of Architecture)

Instructor: Huang Mingjian

The modern everyday life is linear, unidirectional and stagnant. However, in reality, the interplay between event and space in any form of architecture has an element of uncertainty to it. Events affect how spaces are designed while spaces influence how events play out, challenging the relationship between form and function. Everyone can be an active agent that influences their actions and the events they are in. Architectural spaces merely provide a fixed venue for said events to unfold. The existence of homogenous venues next to each other leads to a dearth of living spaces and different social groups interacting in their separate, insular spaces. Through this graduation work, Xia attempts to shatter unidirectional, linear mindsets and reimagine a space for natural, authentic engagement.

About BRAIN GARDEN

Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.

The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.

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