nantongshijiyunchen

Nantong Century Yunchen explores novel materials and ordered rhythmic composition to create multiple interactive, naturally luminous life scenes. Located in the Nantong International Home Textile City, the project draws on Nantong's identity as tong, meaning connection, expressed spatially through permeability between inside and outside, trees growing through openings toward the sky, and shifting light on glass-block walls. The demonstration zone covers 4,200 square meters, with the core entry and courtyard area only 1,600 square meters, making the challenge how to enlarge a small courtyard through rich spatial division. The entry corridor serves as a visual spine connecting the street-front display area and the water courtyard. White wood-grain brick, beige aluminum panels and glass blocks establish a clean, bright tone consistent with the building facade. The 60-meter-plus feature wall is deliberately low and introverted rather than grand; visitors walk through scattered mature trees up steps toward a translucent inner corridor, where the roof lowers and openings allow trees to grow upward. Inside, the corridor is perforated in multiple ways: trees pierce the roof, paths extend like small piers into the water, and openings at the wall base extend outward. Winter sunlight through glass blocks reads like small bottles collecting warmth. A corner space uses blue-white coated steel wires, checkerboard glass floor tiles and gray-titanium mirror walls to express a smart, interactive, modern community, while also referencing home textile weaving. The water courtyard uses interlocking island forms with graduated steps that fade into the water, blurring the boundary between water and green. Five small hat-figure sculptures represent riverside life. The corridor extends into the courtyard on a raised platform with two swing sets, creating family companionship scenes. A total of 3,400 glass blocks on three walls use a textured circular sun pattern that records light and shadow at different angles.