Space,Site And Structural Effects:Trace Architecture Office 2009-2017

Since established by Hua Li in 2009,the Trace Architecture Office keeps working on architecture,urban as well as furniture projects concentrating about space,site and construction.Looking backwards,the works of Trace Architecture Office deserve to be discussed and given critically thinking.Complicated topics and arguments are put into the complicated contexts.Articles about Trace Architecture Office are mainly some records of architecture works without overall and specific thinking.I worked in Trace Architecture Office,participated in several projects and got first-hand information.Close reading focusing on the design strategies and the spatial effects and the connections the two is given to four projects in different periods.Some basic topics are confirmed in the practices of Trace Architecture Office including space,site and structure.As the primary key words,these three topics are important ones in discussions of Chinese contemporary architecture.This article tries to find the historical logic and the background of Trace Architecture Office to find out the origins and the directions that the design methods may come from.Then this article develops several secondary key words to get rid of the simplification or misunderstanding on the primary key words and construct deep constructions them.The relationship between primary and secondary key words are not simply a subordinate one nor a firm one.A secondary key word could be connected to several primary key words,while a primary key word could connect several secondary ones too.One goal of this thesis is to clarify how the secondary key words connect the primary ones with its meaning and utilities.At the end of this thesis,the position of Trace Architecture Office and Hua Li is going to be located in various contexts.