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Beijing architecture studio Elevation Workshop completed a freestanding structure made from strips of strengthened bamboo for Beijing Design Week 2013.

Elevation Workshop was one of thirteen practices invited to create an installation using bamboo steel, a laminated and treated material that is formed using bamboo and produced in China.

Designed and assembled by the practice, the structure is formed from vertical members that stand at angles to zig-zagging horizontal planes. Visitors interacted with the piece by sitting or lying on the benches, or by walking through a hinged upright element that opens like a door.

All the installations were exhibited at the 751 D-Park, a former industrial facility in northeast Beijing.

Beijing Design Week 2013 featured a few of installations, including a pattern of strings through a Beijing hutong and a pavilion surrounded by 1200 vertical brass tubes.

See more information from the architects below:

ELEV installation for Beijing Design Week

The installation is a freestanding system that contains space for human activity and interaction.

The design generates an ambiguous space by creating a set of floating horizontal surfaces that offer functional need for visitors.

They are invited to lie, sit, stand and walk through the installation, constantly shifting between being enclosed and being exposed.

The suspended edge condition provides a gradual and soft connection to the surrounding area.

The boundary between inside and outside is blurred.

The elegant vertical element resembles the material quality of bamboo, lean yet strong.

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Beijing designers reMIX Studio created a string installation that guided visitors through a derelict building to a pop-up restaurant at Beijing Design Week 2013 (+ slideshow).

Entitled Paizi 38, reMIX Studio created the intervention as part of the urban regeneration of the historic Dashilar hutong in Beijing.

Lengths of string and a wooden path created a journey through three traditional courtyards, leading visitors over rubble and through holes in the walls.

Threaded through the doorways, the strings spanned room lengths in grouped arrangements.

In the final courtyard space, lightbulbs hung from the ends of the strings over dining tables at a temporary restaurant.

“The city builds millions of square metres every year at an uncontrollable speed whilst instead this project forces the investors, the designers, the city to a new slowed-down development,” said the practice.

Following the temporary intervention for this year’s Beijing Design Week, the space is to be turned into a boutique hotel.

At last year’s event a constellation of illuminated ceramic yoghurt pots were hung in the stairwell of a former bicycle factory and Nike shoe material was used to create a colourful web in a rusting gas tower.

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Here’s some more information from the designers:

This space will become after the Beijing Design Week a new boutique hotel that will be grafted into the existing building through precise insertions and punctual modifications.

These considerations are the premises and the constrictions of the temporary installation we are exhibiting today. Starting from the structural survey and the analysis of the actual spaces that in succession form an extended horizontal layered system – an unique feature for a building typology such as this one especially in this area of Beijing.

We propose a new connective path that reveals the existing building secrets and tunnelling throughout the architectural body it highlights in few observations points the quality and characteristics of the future intervention.

The system of new portals is a succession of points of view that, passing in the position where the new hotel circulation will be placed, forces the visitors into an unexpected journey; challenging his imagination and forcing him to redefine the meaning of “exploration”.

The path ends in the main room where a series of photographs taken from the Orchid hotel construction will show the quality of the future refurbishment.

The tunnel, branching in a three lines lighting feature marks visually the areas of the main space where the opening dinner of the Beijing Design Week will take place.

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