Articles by Collin Chen

Chongqing is a “fantasy” city built in the mountains. The cascading buildings make up the city’s special landscape. Our project is to create a temporary building in the city. Behind the project, the site is modern high-rise buildings, and in front is the architectural heritage – Huguang Guild Hall. The landscape in the distance is the Dongshuimen Bridge and the Yangtze River. The front is history and nature, and the back is the magical city. I hope that our new buildings should be integrated into this fantastic and historical city.

Architecture that Grows out of the Great Nature
Chaohu Natural and Cultural Center is the core public supporting facility developed by OCT Group for Chaohu Bantang Hot Spring Town. On the north side of the city, Juzhang Moutain stretches for tens kilometers from northeast to southwest. Located at the foot of the mountain, the building is regarded as a landmark grows out of the juncture of local natural environment and city life, demonstrating cultural heritage and future lifestyle.

Architecture that Grows out of the Great Nature
Chaohu Natural and Cultural Center is the core public supporting facility developed by OCT Group for Chaohu Bantang Hot Spring Town. On the north side of the city, Juzhang Moutain stretches for tens kilometers from northeast to southwest. Located at the foot of the mountain, the building is regarded as a landmark grows out of the juncture of local natural environment and city life, demonstrating cultural heritage and future lifestyle.

Architecture that Grows out of the Great Nature
Chaohu Natural and Cultural Center is the core public supporting facility developed by OCT Group for Chaohu Bantang Hot Spring Town. On the north side of the city, Juzhang Moutain stretches for tens kilometers from northeast to southwest. Located at the foot of the mountain, the building is regarded as a landmark grows out of the juncture of local natural environment and city life, demonstrating cultural heritage and future lifestyle.

The Red-Vicutu Store creates a balance between the dynamic and dramatic, with a clean elegance and sophistication, as inspired by the dual nature of the fashion industry and in particular the clientele of the Vicutu brand. The product to be featured in the store embodies this duality as a refined collection of active wear. Drawing upon the client’s intentions for the brand, the design of the spaces utilizes the curvilinear form to suggest and promote the active dynamism of the product, using advanced fabric simulation and 3d printing to create marquee features within the space. Subtle lighting and textural details create the final refinements within the space elevating the user experience within the in person shopping environment.

Wetlands are a valuable resource of the Earth, which has a positive impact on climate change mitigation, water conservation, biodiversity conservation, disaster risk reduction, and the increase of carbon sequestration. Since the Ramsar Convention came into force 51 years ago, there have been 172 parties to the Convention, and 43 wetland cities have been designated by the Convention. China has the most wetland cities with 13, ranking first in the world.

On a rainy afternoon in July 2021, I went to see the location of the gallery’s new space accompanied by Mr.Liu of East Gallery and the artist Bian Shaozhi. At the end of the 1980s, it was designed by Zhang Lei Associated Architects and transformed into an industrial park in 2020. We were all amazed by the tall and wide space scale of the new space. Mr. Liu said that artists in Nanjing need to paint some large paintings. Shaozhi feels that when painting large paintings, he also needs a tall space, the feeling of painting in a tall space is completely different from the feeling of painting in a low space. So we decided to keep the high and large scale of the original space as much as possible to provide artists with a better degree of freedom in presenting their works, although this will lose a lot of usable areas.