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ABOUT NODE Location, Condition and Position

NODE stands for Nansha Original DEsign (or NO DEsign) and was established in 2004. It is a small and high quality architectural practice in the Pearl River Delta region, which grew out of a series of projects associated and completed with the Fok Foundation of Hong Kong, and has extended its prac-tice geographically outward. Founded and led by Principal Architect, Doreen Heng LIU, NODE current-ly consists of 15 architects and designers from China and other countries, and has completed and is implementing architectural projects in China. For years, NODE, with Nansha as her local base and Hong Kong as her international window, also established a studio in Shenzhen in late 2009, has been conducting a diversity of architectural, art and design practices in the PRD region.

Nansha is a uniquely situated at the land and water interface of Pearl River. It is a transit node be-tween the east and west banks of the river; to the north is Guangzhou and to the south is Hong Kong. In contrast with rapid urban development in the rest of China, Nansha has taken a relatively slower pace toward urbanization. NODE argues for participation and inclusion of local interests as well as those from external sources, focuses on the basics of architecture in order to maintain a critical posi-tion under the pressure of tremendous speed, quantity and size. NODEs work makes a departure from the essential issues of building site, program, space, materials and construction and ventures into complexities of urbanism, nature, landscape, tradition and culture. With such concerns, we as wellconsistently seek multi-disciplinary collaborations. Besides architecture, our work also covers a range of projects from scale of furniture and lighting features to urban design. We actively participate in aca-demic forums, art exhibitions and installation designs locally and globally.

NODE here is understood as the point in which different vectors possibilities, tendencies, and events intersect. It is neither a point of departure or of arrival. It is not a fixed entity. It is determined by ever-changing fluxes and dynamics.

China is undergoing a great transitional period. The opportunities for architects are not only to design and build but also to contribute in the shaping of contemporary China. This is the ultimate challenge for NODE.

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She and NODE focus on contemporary urbanism in the Pearl River Delta, and the specific impact of urbanization on design and practice in the Pearl River Delta today. She and her office also have participated in various art and architectural exhibitions

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Below: Michele De Lucchi's worktable in his studio with the tools of the craft. Opposite page: the architect shows a few of his projects

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Many years ago, I chose architecture without realizing the road

pointing to the unknown. A few years later, I got the chance

to design, since then I begun to taste the joy and excitement,

following by round and round struggle and compromise,

everytime, turning inner intuition and imagination into reality,

in this process, I learned to be more flexible but firm, picky but

more accurate, cumbersome but more calm, grounded but more

elegant ... Today, architecture still make me pain and happy!

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/ ENTRANCE & WAREHOUSE OF FLOATINGGLASS FACTORY

As an industrial heritage, Guangdong FloatingGlass Factory provides city renewal of Shekou with a vague possibility, which is a potential additional value in the future

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Opposite page: the entrance landscape took the advantages of the existing half-collapsed factory; plants grow naturally and the historical imprint of industrial buildings is preserved. This page, above: as an area defining entrance

Opening pages: the main entrance was originally from the old warehouse to be demolished, after the transformation it became alightweightbuilding, just like a cloud, simple

and naturally linking the unique chimney shape, the beveled entrance platform leads people to the spiral ramp surround the chimney, and to the ground floor of the factory, providing an experience space of transitional area

and casual. The new entry is organically combined with this old warehouse, and moved up and down directly, but similar to the old volume

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Above, from top: comparisons of before and after transformation of warehouse appearance, interior and outdoor space of the entrance, reflecting a significance of industrial heritage buildings

Previous page, below: the new volume is supported by a new and lightweight steel structure rooted from the old building. A new public space between semi-reflective ceiling and the roof of old building is derived from the old and new cracks

This page, above: a transparent bridge connecting inside and outside space of the warehouse. Below: although sand bin itself has no significant spatial characteristics, with practical and geometric

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Opposite and this page: the ground floor of warehouse retains original three spaces, housing lecture hall, large exhibition hall and children's educational center, with different functions and entrances; the additional mezzanine connects three functional spaces, with different

paths and stairs; while the new faade uses industrial and economic materials withdifferentdegrees oftransparency, the natural lights are introduced to make a plain and enclosed space breathable and ethereal, with the experience of time

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Entrance & Warehouse of FloatingGlass Factory, Shekou, China

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This page, above: in China, negotiation is only deceptive guise. The two or more parties in a negotiation from the outset are not in an equal relationship; the driven force of such top-down negotiation leads to Chinas rapid urbanization. Negotiation is the debate and discussion about possibilities of the use of public space, trying to re-establish the equal rules to reach the multi-acceptable results.Below: Paper War is originated from the Historical Records. Paper is the physical material and media, war is carrying media content. This double meanings are the driving force of inspiration of design. Plasticity of artificial stone can be made like a thin wrinkled paperstandingon the ground and the real battlefield. Opposite page: the works derived from the anomalous imagination of construction waste and site: the exhibition site is a grid ground beam tied with abandoned wooden templates, 450(W) 450(H), as the benches where people can rest, cross-section of grid beam containing the soil planted abandoned templates or reinforced cast concrete pillars (with wood wastes) from top to bottom; the plants climbing along the pillars...

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