Shaoxing · Dayu Memorial Hall

The Dayu Memorial Hall fully respects the existing natural spatial pattern and lives in harmony with the mountain, the Sacrifice-to-Yu Plaza, the Nine-Dragon Altar, the Yu statue on the peak, and the distant Peak and Yonghe Pagoda, sharing and coexisting with them. The building expresses spirituality and shapes human behavior: by deeply excavating the spiritual connotation of the Memorial Hall as a symbol of Chinese traditional culture, the design abstracts the community of heaven, earth, and humanity into the architectural form, preserving what is right while renewing what is new, and imparting an important source of momentum to the revival of the ancient city. The design is both a spatial presentation of heroic character and a transmission of the rich national spirit contained in the thought of heaven-human unity and harmonious coexistence, as well as a vivid excavation of cultural confidence. The project broadly applies traditional spatial composition and formal craft: city walls, gate towers, corner towers, the Temple of Heaven, the earth courtyard, the four directions, and the round heaven and square earth. This is a new understanding and respect for traditional cultural elements, balancing historicity and contemporaneity; as a national vessel it carries collective memory and spiritual belief, abandoning material concreteness, using the people-oriented spirit of shared equality to inspire humanistic feeling and achieve the wisdom of equal, harmonious coexistence.