ARCHITECTURE AS LIVELY PAINTING

Course Name : HT 2200

Instructor : Marcelyn Gow

Individual Project Fall 2022

In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry suggests that beauty triggers the desire to reproduce the beautiful object. “The Fuchun Mountain Pavilion follows the traditional Chinese landscape sequence, presenting the architectural rule of echoing the near mountains, secondary mountains and distant mountains in the overall construction of the building itself.”Wang Shu confessed that Huang Gongwang’s landscape paintings inspired the architecture. “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” (figure 1 and figure 2) is a famous traditional painting by Huang

Gongwang made in the Yuan dynasty. Located on the banks of the Fuchun River, the Fuchun Mountain Museum recreates the idea of the mountain-dwelling in the painting, based on the scenery painted in “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.” Wang Shu recreates the mountain and water painted 600 years ago through the museum’s architecture which is another mode of abstraction moving from image to architecture. This museum on the Fuchun River has become a vivid painting.

The entrance to the Fuchun Mountain Pavilion has a winding corridor with a fence made of bamboo. The pavilions and roofs at the water’s edge curve like mountains to blend with the green hills in the distance. When you walk along the shore, the water grass floats up with the wind, and it is like entering a small village in the middle of a remote mountain. Wang Shu says that when you enter the pavilion, you will have the feeling of being ‘in the mountains, and then you can appreciate how to look across the mountains and look at the peaks. The mountain-dwelling was the ideal residence to which the ancient Chinese literati aspired.

To express the mountain dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, the inside and outside of the building have been designed accordingly. We can see that the long stretched roof echoes the outer mountains in Huang Gongwang’s painting. The interior of the building creates a feeling of walking in the mountains. From the entrance, the curving path circles upwards and eventually towards the roof. This experience is the inner mountain concept in Huang Gongwang’s painting. This mountain walking path can also be understood as a type of architectural promenade. This wandering experience of the layout of the building is a unique architectural experience.

Michael Young mentioned in The Aesthetics of Abstraction that abstraction can shift relations by crossing aspects between mediums. All of these substitutions involve an abstraction of aspects from one medium and reinsertion into that of another. In the case of the Fuchun Mountain museum, it abstracts the experience of walking inside of the mountain. The architecture material and space as the mediums transferred the abstraction from painting to architecture. It is not only a recreation but also stands as a lively painting beside the river.

Wang Shu said that “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” was the source of inspiration for his architectural design. Every brick, tile and stone of the pavilion was taken from the site, both as a dialogue with Huang Gongwang and as a positive response to the natural landscape of Fuchun. Interpreting Chinese Jiangnan culture through the language of architecture, 660 years after Huang Gongwang, Wang Shu reproduced the landscape inside the painting.

Michael Young said “Instead of subtraction, abstraction in aesthetics behaves almost as a substitution.”The museum carries the ideal of the ancient people’s desire to live in the mountains as a substitute for Huang’s painting. The abstraction of the landscape and the understanding of the mountain dwelling, whether from Huang Gongwang more than 600 years ago or from Wang Shu in the contemporary time, is the same, seeking something spiritual in man and nature. Michael Young explains as in this manner it is a process as it extends into the duration of sensation. When Huang Gongwang painted, he was not making a visual record of a single day or a single landscape, but rather capturing the flow of travel through atmospheric changes and multiple perspectives. It took him three years to complete the painting as a form of leisure and self-expression. When Wang Shu tries to “decipher” the landscape painting he says that, “in a Chinese landscape painting, there are big mountains with many trees, and the house is in the middle, which generally takes up little space.”Through this approach to abstraction one discovers the harmony of the architecture blending into the landscape scenery.

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C-ALGAE SKYSCRAPER

Course Name : DS1201

Instructor : Elena Manderdini

Collaborate with : Yoayu Lin+ Ella Cui Spring 2023 change and ensure a more livable future for all.

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