Part I: Academic Work
Academic Project 1: Monastery of the Himalayas, City of London
Bartlett School of Architecture
Diploma/MArch Final Project [Distinction Prize Winner]
Tutor: Jonathan Hill
The Monastery of the Himalayas will consist of a monk’s residence and a
Buddhist monastery. It also secretly functions as a diplomatic ministry in the
city of London. The project criticises the use of religion as political
propaganda, corrupting and destroying its purity. The project speaks as a
metaphor, and formalises the idea of duality.
The building is designed to follow certain Buddhist notions, including the
general layout of the Mandala grid, which consists of nine units representing a
hierarchy of occupations. Here, however, there are two Mandalas, while certain
modules are re-orientated and re-scaled in relation to vulnerable energy spots.
This distortion of the principle of the perfect Mandala represents the duality
introduced by the building’s secret role as a diplomatic ministry.
In accommodating both the two top monks, the building has been designed with
moments where the two meet. Nevertheless, the architecture controls their
movements and perceptions so that while physically sharing spaces, they see
them essentially differently.
The building will be constructed using both slow and fast techniques in
parallel phases, using both Chinese contemporary construction methods and
traditional handcraftsmanship.These correspond to two architectural languages:
heavily sculpted decoration, and simple bold forms. Hybrids of the two
languages happen in building segments including the gate house, Stupa of the
Himalayas, the artificial Bodhi tree, the prayer wheel hall, Big Buddha statue
and the stepped well.
学术项目一
这所选址在伦敦市金融中心的佛教修道院通过感性的游历和理性的形式分析探索并审视了
当今社会宗教被用作政治宣传的课题。我试图通过这个项目思考如何运用建筑的语言作为
一种隐喻的手法来传达一个观点,来叙述我对此课题‘两面性’的探究。此项目的重点是
感性地联系了宗教与历史和理性的建筑规划与建造的过程,探索一种中立的建筑表现手
法,带领读者和使用者来自我领会其中的奥妙。
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