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“For a clear understanding of the relationship between highbrow &lowbrow, difficulty & ease of songs and their popularity: it is importantto know that highbrow songs are not necessarily difficult, and lowbrow songsare not necessarily easy; conversely, difficult songs are not necessarilyhighbrow, and easy songs are not necessarily lowbrow. Therefore, highbrow &lowbrow and difficulty & ease are irrelevant. It is also important to knowthat low popularity of songs is not a result of being highbrow, but a result ofbeing difficult; high popularity of songs is not a result of being lowbrow, buta result of being easy. ” -- Feng Zi-kai Interestingly, the site of our project is rightopposite the newly built Feng Zi-kai School in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, the hometownof Feng Zi-kai. Racks of light filtered through the shutters, the corners ofpapers of the textbooks flipped repeatedly and the graffiti on the textbooks inmemory seem to echo with the intense atmosphere of the academy in the sitesomehow. At the beginning of the design, we explored changes inthe scale for people with space and nature and the responses within a limitedspace, but felt somewhat bereft. In the process of endowing the site with a newlife, we identified surprises and made satisfactory achievements from exploringthe time scale in the design. Just as FengZi-kai said: lowbrow songs are not necessarily easy. In the design of the site,we adopt concise lines and imperceptible gradients to avoid conveyingoverwhelmingly excited emotions, filling the environment with faint light andshadow displacement as a whole. The connection of the sight with and theenvironment is closer for the sake of the corridor, creating a time-freezing beauty. Quercus nuttallii growing out of the water passesthrough the top of the corridor with a dark-colored water-courtyard behind,raising the level of the entire space in the sense of depth. In a quiet scene,light and humid air added render the entire space with a vivid and naturaltexture. Wefocus on the spiritual core of the site, which is expected to be turned into anideal residential zone, while striving to explore the expression of space indifferent ways. We intend to arouse empathy and yearning for a better life withthe essence of the site, concise and simple lines, and an atmosphere ofcomfort.
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