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Multiple identities of the pump house
In the context of a new round of rural
construction, many basic designs and
public houses in the village are seeking a
breath of new life. In addition to meeting
the daily needs of villagers for water
and electricity for irrigation, the pump
house has its own identity to consider.
In approaching the design process, the
designers endeavored to interpret these
identities from different perspectives.

Symbol (the interpretation of symbols
and the reproduction of spirit)
The extreme abstraction of cultural
elements from the surrounding villages,
then translated to the extent of the space,
is the means of manipulating the symbols;
the dialogue between the architectural
space and the environment, and the
dialogue with the villagers and tourists, is
a symbolic metaphor of the symbols.

Form (the prototype of modeling and
festival of diversity)
Sloping roofs, shadow walls, high and
low windows, platforms, ascending steps,
and skylight holes are just some of the
village's countless architectural elements
which, through changes and extensions,
have translated into the juxtaposed
architectural symbols in the space, placed
in the field and accommodating the
various elements. In parallel, it provides
differing observation behaviours of the
environment and the space, such as
looking from afar and then up close.
Element (the way spatial elements
interact with each other)
Although the constituent elements
are common to architecture, they are
organised in an unconventional way, such
as shadow walls with odd proportions,
suspended platforms, broken staircases,
sloping sidewalls, half-arched ceilings,
low side windows, and skylights with only
a single slit.

Diagram (tools of Design and
Generation)
As a design manoeuver, there was
a search for spatial relationships and
the abstraction of spatial concepts. The
experience of being in space is a dynamic,
ever-changing, fragmented, transient
state, where separation and complexity
coexist, and illustration helps us to
holistically and reflectively react to the
experiential information.

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