After 20 years of vicissitudes, Zhusheng Lecture Hall and Chang’an Construction Office, which situates in quiet lanes at Taizhong Art Museum, starts its new operation mode after being designed and renovated last year.

Over the past two decades, Zhusheng, a public lecture hall promoting urban environmental and humanistic thinking and a comprehensive research space for the design and development of real estate, has accumulated the beautiful memories of many architects. Faced with the common expectations of the majority of practitioners in the architecture industry, how to create an open building that emphasizes less on appearance but particularly stresses the connotations of life? How to convey the magnificent, graceful and refreshing features by demonstrating the delicate manual texture and expression through the layered spatial constitution? All these have become the main design subjects in this project.

At the compound two-story open space that promotes architectural and humanistic educational lectures as well as architectural design and development, the first floor is the public study and garden facing the urban streets with the low-profiled design and expression, and the second floor is a space for discussion such as humanistic lectures and internal office space. Therefore, we have particularly built a converting ladder and two guiding and ceremonial corridors at the second floor and roughly divided the space into four functional sections. The reception hall and book-reading space are arranged at the first floor facing the east as the intermediate entrance space of the entire building, the back yard west of the first floor and beside a south facing sunshine courtyard are for small art salons in life. On the second floor, the humanistic lecture and workshop are placed at the balcony beside an interesting urban gap.  

The superficial style of design and the development of external form are completely suppressed in this project. Not only so, we deliberately pay much attention to the environmental behaviors and psychology in the space. Let work production and discussion innovation be carried out in a smooth sense of pleasure. Therefore, the unity of life and work seems so harmonious and natural.

 If the design really belongs to the category of humanities, then the design should return to the real life, focus on the unity of the opposite reality, and let it go back to the moment!