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Sun Shed Renovation by Ziye Wu

Sun Shed Renovation

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020

This horizontal-format architectural photograph presents the interior of a renovated greenhouse transformed into an event venue. Scanning from top to bottom and background to foreground, the upper portion reveals an expansive glass ceiling supported by a geometric framework of dark steel trusses arranged in triangular patterns, through which pale blue sky is visible, bathing the entire space in cool, soft daylight. Suspended from the steel framework are industrial pendant lights and theatrical spotlights that provide supplementary illumination. The middle register features the most striking architectural elements: a series of tall bamboo columns that rise from floor level and spread outward at their tops in elegant curved forms, their warm golden-straw coloring creating strong contrast against the cool steel above. These columns, constructed from bundled bamboo reeds, possess a tactile linear texture suggesting the feeling of smooth parallel ridges beneath fingers. Behind the columns, a dark backdrop studded with countless tiny white lights creates the impression of a starfield or night sky, adding theatrical depth. Centered in the composition and slightly elevated sits a circular wooden stage approximately one-quarter the image width, its surface finished in warm honey-toned planks arranged in concentric patterns, with a single microphone stand marking its center. A subtle ring of warm amber light illuminates the stage edge from below. Surrounding this central platform and filling the entire foreground, dense plantings of lavender create a soft carpet of muted purple, their feathery texture suggesting the brushing sensation of soft herb leaves. The lavender's cool violet tones transition to warm purple where light touches their tips. White-draped chairs and tables arranged in curved rows occupy the space between the lavender and the bamboo columns, their crisp fabric catching light and providing luminous punctuation. The overall atmosphere feels ceremonial yet intimate, combining the openness of sky with the shelter of organic architectural forms.

The sun shed renovation starts and finishes in the countryside. The design concept stems from a rural scene: the blue sky, innocent fields, buzzing frogs, the fragrant air in the shade of the trees. It is a common middle-axis banquet space model, adjusted to the central stage as the basis of the circular radiation type banquet space. It is a attempt on adaptive reuse of village renovation.