JIA Garden | Mountain Soil

In the spring of 2023, Mountain Soil was commissioned by JIA Yuan to embed a living exhibition space with a focus on artifacts within the existing two-story building with framed structure. Taking the Chinese character “yuan” as a starting point, the design narrates the overall space through the sequence of “Outdoor Garden/ Approaching Garden/ Wandering Garden/ Lingering Garden”.

Emotional Design Inspiration

In the fast-paced digital era, we are sensitive to the new trends, yet concurrently experiencing a delayed perception of the mundane.

For a significant period, we regarded “the ground of the city covered with reinforced concrete and asphalt as a solidified and dead surface” . The clear cracks in the ground and the appearance of non-artificially intervened natural life over time provided us with an answer on how to perceive both artificial construction and organic nature.

JIA Yuan Craft places emphasis on exploring and disseminating global handicrafts, delving into the beauty of objects, as well as promoting the development and mutual recognitions of handicrafts in contemporary society. At the beginning of conceptual design, Mountain Soil harkens back to the notion of creating a unique “living home” for the project where space, handicraft objects, and human behavior can have subtle connections. This place is a exhibition space, an equal and free spirit embedded art space for all people who are committed to discover handicrafts.

Contemplating the approachable landscape has became a breakthrough for Mountain Soil. By translating the inimitable nature into the project design, the designer extracted spatial forms from daily scenes in our life.

Photography: Wen Studio

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