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Atelier FCJZ 非常建築
Yung Ho Chang 張永和
Model, Hebei Education Publishing House (2000–2004), Hebei, China 中國河北省河北教育出版社大樓（2000–2004）模型
2004
The Hebei Education Publishing House is a multi-use tower block in Shijiazhuang, an industrial provincial capital in north-east China. Founded by Yung Ho Chang and Lijia Lu in 1993, Atelier FCJZ was the first independent architecture agency established in China since 1949; the Hebei Education Publishing House was one of the practice’s earliest built projects.
The tower’s form expresses Chang’s interest in creating human-scaled urban experiences, even in expanding cities often defined by massive, iconic development. The offices of the commissioning client, a publishing company, occupy the top three levels of the structure. To make the project economically viable, the client wished to add complementary programmes and public spaces to the brief, including rentable offices, a hotel, a bookstore, a museum, a restaurant, an indoor basketball court, and an outdoor garden. Chang distributed these activities across the two rectangular volumes below the publishing house, offering it literal and figurative support. Walkways thread through the gap at the project’s centre, articulating the different components and helping the building to read as a miniature city in itself. Chang’s approach also allows the building to remain open to the city around it, including the large park it faces to the south.
The tower’s form expresses Chang’s interest in creating human-scaled urban experiences, even in expanding cities often defined by massive, iconic development. The offices of the commissioning client, a publishing company, occupy the top three levels of the structure. To make the project economically viable, the client wished to add complementary programmes and public spaces to the brief, including rentable offices, a hotel, a bookstore, a museum, a restaurant, an indoor basketball court, and an outdoor garden. Chang distributed these activities across the two rectangular volumes below the publishing house, offering it literal and figurative support. Walkways thread through the gap at the project’s centre, articulating the different components and helping the building to read as a miniature city in itself. Chang’s approach also allows the building to remain open to the city around it, including the large park it faces to the south.
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