Modern Nature

-Individual work - Director: Glen Wash - Location: Suzhou, China - Time: 09.2021-01.2022

The project intends to explore how nature can be introduced into people's daily lives and become a way of life. In today's rapidly developing Chinese society, the large population has led to high-rise housing, which provides an adequate amount of living space and high efficiency, but also leads to a programmed life. There is little use of communal areas in the daily lives of residents and a lack of contact with nature.

How can modern nature subtly provide interaction between man and his environment, dissolving the distance between natural elements and architecture and establishing a new relationship between man and nature. The role of architecture in this is not simply a vehicle, but anintegral part of the interaction.Between the homes, there are many spaces that need to be re-expressed and do not offer a unique experience to people.

Combining traditional forms of garden architecture with residential housing, the project attempts to provide a way of life that is closely linked to nature in the pursuit of rapid economic development. In the midst of massive repetitive urbanisation, a design is explored that retains the local culture and rhythm of life, bringing back nature into the daily lives of modern people and integrating a more original living experience into modern construction.

Site Analysis

Houses

The Gusau district is more densely populated, with about a tenth of the city's population, and has a high level of ageing. It has a relatively equal gender ratio and the migrant population accounts for about 19% of the total population

Problems

The northern side of the project site is mostly a new town with new buildings, many high-rise residences and modern design. To the south, the buildings in the old town are restricted in height and are integrated into the old buildings.

Researchers

Nature Construction between architecture and nature

There are stages in the development of Chinese society when architecture, man and nature exhibit a specific relationship.

Primitive period: Caves Early civilisation: Villages 16th century: Gardens Early 21st century: Skyscrapers

The natural environment occupied a very important place in the dwellings of early human civilisation. They were fully integrated into people's daily lives, serving as protection, shelter and beautification.

Although in the middle of the city, the unique design approach increases the interaction between people and nature and better integrates the building with the environment.

In most modern Chinese homes, human interaction with nature is greatly reduced, if not completely absent.

Analysis Of Gardens