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Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena

Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena

Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics to Phenomena

DAGA Architects

ARCHITECTS
DAGA Architects

STATUS
Built

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Beijing, China

CATEGORY
Cultural › Pavilion Sculpture

The installation is in the form of a movable glass box.

Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena
Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena

It is randomly placed in the courtyard or hutong alley, allowing people to relax and enjoy the scenery of the Hutong; It can also can also moved, allowing people to walk shuttled through the Hutong, which provide a convenient community public space for the residents in the Hutong.

The installation shorten the distance between people,human and buildings, human and the cities.

Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena
Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena

The installation “transparent box” moves around in Hutong as a showcase of the entire Hutong Museum.

It presents life objects, scenes or some unexpected and interesting events of Hutong residents. The “exhibits” of the glass box constitute a dynamic museum where anyone and everything can participate.

Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena
Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena

The museum not only shows the past but also the present and the future. As a transparent medium, glass connects the past and present of the Hutong and carries the old and future of the existing building.


Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena
Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena
Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena


Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena
Transparent Hutong Installation: From Physics To Phenomena

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