SONG LIFE HALL

Song Life Museum in Xi'an sits at the intersection of Yanxiang Road and Duling Yi South Road in the Qujiang New District. Rooted in Qujiang culture and drawing on elegant appreciation of pine, koi and deer, the project takes dragon swimming through Qujiang as its theme, creating a modern minimalist space as a contemporary elegant gathering. Pure white serves as background for emerald pines, expressing minimalist poetic aesthetics. The entry uses abstracted massing that rejects conventional gate form, evoking the northern mountain grandeur of Kuanglu painting, with pines extending branches in welcome. Walls are deconstructed through virtual-solid combination: walls join corridors, and within the material space of walls, roofs and columns, light intervenes virtually while twisted branches spread actually, continuously animating the space. The all-pine planting throughout, combined with architectural framing, creates a luxuriant scroll of thousand layers of emerald pine, expressing Chinese cultural feeling for pine. The garden pursues winding, natural-form composition with multiple stopping and crossing points that make it deep and elegant. Tang-style vermilion is extracted as the core color within the white building, writing the city's hidden memory like an ancient page. The design integrates historical Qujiang neighborhood wall linear space, reproducing the Qujiang elegant gathering through painting, cooling, flute playing, qin performance, pine embankment, music and fish viewing.