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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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SOUTHERN RED ARMY THREE-YEAR GUERRILLA WAR MEMORIAL

Huajian Group Shanghai Architectural Design & Research Institute

MANUFACTURERS
CSG

ENERGY SAVING
Bin Sun

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Chang Su, Lei Zuo

BIM
Wanping Wang, Wen Liu, Fanan Wu, Boyang Tu, Xiaolin Yang

INTERIOR DESIGN
Jiangxi Wenzhan Decorative Art Co. Ltd.

LANDSCAPE
Yu Zhou, Yuzhou Liu, Yue Dong

CONSTRUCTION
Shanxi Construction Engineering Sixth Construction Group Co. Ltd.

DESIGN TEAM
Chang Su, Ya Gong, Lei Zuo, Baiting Liu, Shaohui Yang, Yifei Shen, Huan Jin

ENGINEERING
Jun Yang, Gongwei Shi, Huanlong Li, Peide Chen, Yunqing Jiao, Qilan Cui

MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL DESIGN
Hailiang Wang, Hong Qian, Jiangbo He, Yuanjun Xie, Fan Zhang, Mengyue Yu, Boli Yang

CLIENT
The People's Government of Dayu county,Ganzhou, Jiangxi

CURTAIN WALL
Taixi Zhu, Haiming Li

PHOTOGRAPHS
ACF

AREA
19116 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Ganzhou, China

CATEGORY
Memorial Center

Text description provided by architect.

Before get to the memorial hall, there is a mountain road composed of winding paths and steps.

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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The entrance plaza is divided by an oblique path and the sharp patterns, giving the plaza a heavy commemorative atmosphere.

After stepping on ten steps, the surrounding granite exterior walls gradually form a strong mass turning.

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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The deep concave entrance and undulating stone changes affect the mood of visitors constantly.

Therefore, tourists will enter the hall from here with their hesitation and expectation.

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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The architects cleverly used natural light while processing space.

The well-designed windows seem like a signal of the tour route.

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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The light of the entire memorial hall is woven in various forms of dots, lines, and surfaces, composing connection at each node of the path.

As the starting point of the lobby, the criss-crossing lattice frame of skylights cuts the light to various changes falling into the main wall.

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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And the mottled light and shadow is projected on the end of the winding ramp, turning into a wonderful visual focus.

During the zigzag memorial path, a ray of light emerges in the dark space, which is created by the side walls and the wedge-shaped windows on the roof, giving visitors the light of hope in confusion.

In the last exhibition hall, the entire glass curtain wall brings the mountain scenery and brightens light in interior, and at the same time, the heavy mood of the visitors is suddenly released.

Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Stone and glass, as the two main materials of the memorial hall, implies suffering and misery in the war. The heavy stone, like successive difficulties, implies barriers and hardships, while the sharp wedge-shaped glass surface, cutting through the volume on the façade, symbolizes that various approaches, explored from difficulties, will eventually lead to freedom and light.

Through the change of material and volume, the strong antagonistic emotion and memorial meaning is embedded in the building, expressing a unique war memorial.


Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF


Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
© ACF


Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
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Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
Material Analysis 


Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
Form Generation GIF 
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
Concept Generation 


Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
Elevations 
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
Elevations 


Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
1f Plan 
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
2f plan 
Southern Red Army Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial
3f Plan 

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