Introduction: Associate Professor, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ph. D., National Level Registered Architect, ’Oumoumou Studio Host Designer. Zhang is a member of organizations including the Active Energy Saving Committee of the Chinese Architectural Society, the Curtain Wall Design Committee of the Chinese Architectural Society, and the Architectural Creation Branch of the Shanghai Architectural Society. He is also deputy director of the Future Space Research Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a member of the Shanghai Expert Library Committee, and a community planner for both Jiangchuan and Yuyuan Road areas in Shanghai. He has been recognized as a national outstanding design management talent, a Shanghai outstanding young survey designer, a FA young designer, a AD100 most influential designer, and was the 2019 Shanghai Space Art Season executive curator. Zhang has continuously participated in Beijing Satellite TV’s “warm new home” building renovation program, and received the program’s highest ratings. Among the episodes that received great acclaim and public interest were the “Beijing mechanical garage home,” “Shanghai Container House,” and “Shanghai Park.” As a result, Zhang’s work received the highest renown, often covered by additional media channels, and his programs were recognized as having a widespread transformation influence. Zhang’s projects have won the German IF Award, THE PLAN Award from Italy, the Red Dot Best Design Award and the Shanghai Architectural Society Creation Award. In 2017, he led Wu Yanzu and other stars to participate in Zhejiang Satellite TV’s “Beautiful House” architecture program and oversaw the design of the Magnolia Paddock Prairie House. His work was also shortlisted for the RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects Award, and won the 2018 Red Dot Best Design Award. He represented Chinese architects in the keynote speech at the Venice Architecture Festival. For his work as the original designer of the main building of the APEC Summit in the Beijing Sunrise Oriental Hotel he was awarded with the Zhan Tianyou Award, the Luban Award and the first prize for national survey design. He also presided over the design of a series of landmarks at home and abroad. Zhang maintains a collaborative relationship with the French Peugeot Citroen DS brand, and has become the first Chinese architect to speak for an international high-end brand.
’Oumoumou Partner, Founding Architect, and Egg Yolks Construction Society Partner. Li’s engineering experience includes: the Beijing G20 Summit Hotel, the Puyang Administrative Center, Zhengzhou University Library, Dongguan Yuhuijin Center, Yiping Planning Exhibition Hall, Zhengzhou University Affiliated Primary School, as well as large-scale engineering design work. On this basis, in recent years, Li has worked in an in-depth capacity in the field of urban micro-renewal engineering. Li has done this work while adhering to a creative-oriented approach, with the spatial feelings of users serving as the starting point of design, and with an approach of extensive participation during the whole process of design and construction.
Xu Hang
’Oumoumou Partner, Founding Architect, Professor of Practice at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Founder of Egg Yolk Creation Society, and recipient of a Master’s of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from CTH Polytechnic University, Sweden. Xu’s work advancing the completion and floorability of deep-ploughed buildings through a series of renovation and renewal projects has been completed in many Chinese cities and villages. This work has been recognized with a series of awards, including the Red Dot Award.
Qu Jijian The excellent young designers who are hard-working and brave and hard-working have the experience of participating in many projects. Excellent ability, experience, full of energy.
Pan Wenqi careful young designers, in many areas of architectural design are involved, all-round talent.
Wang Jinchuangyoung designer, has a wealth of effect map design experience, in color matching, atmosphere rendering, material selection and other aspects have their own unique insights.
Li RanHas accumulated experience as a young designer and has some experience and reflection in modeling.
2. Design Concept
’Oumoumou studio promotes a “community building” strategy in order to find the most fundamental problems of users, with a “face reality” “face life” “face the problem” attitude to analyze the problem, and a “uniqueness of the ground” design approach to solve the problem. We aspire for our studio’s practice to maintain the perspective of an outsider, thus bringing you unique inspiration and thought.
3. Professional Direction, Design Features
rural practice
residential regeneration
urban renewal
exhibition planning
4. home page link / WeChat public number and other platforms
Selection of on the ground village practice projects
5.1. "Beautiful House" Magnolia Paddock Prairie House
AddressMagnolia Paddock, Northeast Hebei Province
Type commercial project
Size 272 m2
Year 2017
Introductionto the project Magnolia Paddock is located in the northeast of Hebei Province, connected to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. It boasts scenery that is among the most beautiful in the world. For the project, we adopted a total of three main design methods. The first was inspiration from local architecture. The second was the use of local materials, including old stone, old wooden beams and rattan. Together with the surrounding microscapes, the building can be integrated into the vast surrounding nature.
Awards
The 2018 RedDot Award for Best Design
Winner of the 2018 WAN World Architecture Journalism Awards
2018 Royal Institute of Architecture International Award, shortlisted (RIBA International Award 2018).
Shortlisted for the 2018 Architecture Review Magazine, Library Architecture Category
Italy’s 2018 Plan Award for Cultural Architecture of the Year
2018 World Architecture Festival’s Cultural Architecture Finalist Award
The 2018 World Architecture Festival Wood Architecture Finalist Award
Featured in more than 700 public posts, more than 7,000 media campaigns, receiving more than 800 million combined views
5.2. Xia Mintang Bamboo Lotus House
AddressXia MutangVillage, Wan’an County, Jiangxi Province
Typepublic welfare project
Size 50 m2
Year 2018
Introductionto the project This is a children’s rural public welfare academy located in Xia Mutang Village of Wan’an County, Jiangxi Province, which aims to solve the problem of providing books and reading opportunities for children left behind in rural areas with low-tech, low-cost buildings. It faced many challenges: the project funds were limited, the duration was tight, amounting to little more than 20 days. In addition, rural construction conditions were difficult, with limitations in the construction technology possessed by local residents. This site is close to an old hall, but also is the only way for villagers to go up the mountain. It was necessary to maintain the ability to pass through the site, hence the construction program needed to allow for a future flow of people through the passage. Secondly, between the site and the field was a large bamboo forest. The wind passing through it, through the mottled bamboo, could vaguely also be seen in distant rice fields. These feelings gave us the inspiration of a large bamboo forest, with both limited space but also possessing the ability to transverse the field.
Awards
AIA Shanghai Design Awards 2019 Honors
2020 German Red Dot Award
WAF World Architecture Festival Special Structure Award Shortlist, Italy THE PLAN Special Structure Award final list, CCTV News three-minute special report
Selection of residential regeneration projects
5.3. The “Hundred-change smart home” a very small household transformation of a warm new home
AddressMOHO International Apartments, South Lidong District, Donghua City, Dongcheng City, Beijing
Type BuildingRenovation
Scale coversan area of 20 m2
Year 2017
Introductionto the project The Perennian Smart Home is a 20-square-meter Smart Home that creates different functions at different levels through creative use of the up-and-down mobile floor system. Combined with 20 different types of variable furniture, this small space—of less than 20 square meters and with a height of only 3.4 meters—creates six living modes: living, fitness, cinema, study, sleeping and multi-person living mode.
Awards
Received the renovation show’s all-time high rating of 0.757. A video of the project was seen by 300 million + viewers—“the hottest of the year” 2017 Red Dot Award for Best Design
The 2017 American Architecture Awards AAP Highest Award 2017 7th Shanghai Architectural Society Creation Award Excellence Award (Highest Award).
2017 IF Design Award Design Award
The Plan 2017 Residential Architecture of the Year Finalist Award, World Architecture Festival 2018 Sustainable Architecture Finalist Award, China Design Red Star Award 2017
Singapore Interior Design SIDA Finalist Award 2017
5.4. Warm New Home Container House
Type commercial project
Scale 900 m2
Year 2018
ProjectIntroduction Inthe Park Smart House 2.0 project, the designer further explores the potential of factory prefabrication, on-site assembly, mechanical variable components and intelligent control of mobile phones, and upgrades four containers of 80 post-3d printing entrepreneurs to consider “using time in exchange for space”, using the characteristics of containers to easily transform their forms to reorganize the set of four.
Awards
The 7th Shanghai Architectural Society Creative Award, Best Work Award of the World Architecture Festival, 2018 Residential Architecture Finalist Award, Participant in the Busan Architecture Festival in Korea
5.5. Yangshupu District Loft House Renovation "Hanging Garden"
Address Yangshupu District, Shanghai
Typecommercial project
Size35 square meters
Year 2017
Introductionto the project One feature of this project is that it achieves a high level effect in a small space. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for design, so we put forward the concept of a “vertical garden.” The complexity of the space and path of Jiangnan gardens was thus increased from two to three dimensions. In the process, this complex and changeable small space became the key advantage of the project.
5.6. Pet Home
AddressShanghai
Typecommercial project
Size 48 m2
Year 2018
Introductionto the project In this high-density mixed environment favored by people, the relationship between human and pet was the focus of the overall design. First of all, the overall function of the project was partitioned into “re-grooming.” The human space and pet space “bite” each other, forming two spatial systems of yin and yang. The living room, the second bedroom and the master bedroom form the living space, the corridor plus the two huts in the yard form the pet space, the two spaces thus bite each other and penetrate one another.
5.7. Old-age Homes
AddressPingjiangRoad Community, Shanghai
Type HistoricBuilding Renovation / Cooperation
Size 14square kilometers
Year 2014
Introductionto the project This project applies the designer’s own research and development of the science and technology of multi-directional intelligent mobile device. The mobile device assists the elderly in carrying out daily life activities. At the same time a complete transformation of the existing site allows for the provision of enough facilities for the elderly, and the study of materials and colors creates a suitable space for the elderly to live in. This project aimed to integrate science and technology into the way we think about life, and to help us think about future development trends and diversity of space for the elderly.
Awards
German Red Dot Award 2020
5.8. Xinhua Road to honor the old age suitable for aging micro-renewal and transformation
AddressNo. 7 Xinhua Road, Shanghai
Type Renovationofhistoric buildings
Size 14square kilometers
Year 2014
Introductionto the project Shanghai’s bustling Xinhua Road lot has a diverse set of tall buildings and 70-year-old houses. The site is called “respect for the elderly.” This concept adheres to the tradition of respect for the old, and love for the old. This is reflected in a simple folk practice and conventional rule: the elderly live in the brighter south, the younger generation live in the darker north. This project transformed number 7, a house belonging to the elderly. This house is a three-story brick-and-wood mixed structure, with each floor divided into north and south sides of a corridor room. This provided a face-to-face setup for a family, the south side for the living room, the north side for the kitchen and bathroom. The connects not only families but households too, its use function is not only a public walkway, but also an integral part of each resident’s home. The renovation encompassed the three-story public walkway closely connected to the family, as well as the forgotten rooftop roof.
Acclaimed in the New People’s Evening News (special edition), as well as on the WeChat platform and in a number of 10W plus articles
5.9. Fool's Park Road Public Market
Address Fool’s Park Road（Yuyuan Road), Shanghai, China
Typehistoric / cooperation
Scale 210㎡
Year 2018
Introduction to the project
5.10. Suzhou Pingjiang Road city micro-renewal and transformation
AddressSuzhou,China
Typecommercial
Introductionto the project The project adheres to the concept of finishing and implanting a spiritual dimension of poetic aesthetics, as well as community creation and dissemination in the form of spatial design, in order to shape the daily poetry and space of the residents.
5.11. Jiangchuan Road area, micro-renewal and transformation of an old residence
AddressJiangchuanRoad Street, Shanghai
Type HistoricBuilding Renovation / Cooperation
Size 14square kilometers
Year 2014
Introductionto the project Through the combination of a dot-line surface, we have carried out the transformation of many old buildings in the area of Jiangchuan Road in Shanghai, so as to improve the living environment of the elderly in the Jiangchuan Road community. The entire system includes: (1)Su Shanghai Red Park Community Vitality: The original site was a community center and teahouse. It lacked cultural space and indoor activity spaces for the public. The project’s new art museum is based on the Jiangchuan Road post-industrial culture. It also involves the restoration of community public welfare, adhering to an “industrial legacy” brand. The museum is a community-sharing activity generator that brings together multiple needs in addition to exhibitions and cultural functions, as well as live music spaces, integrated theatres, community libraries and small shops to convenience people. We also based the work on the concept of the “four King Kong” types of equipment and the color combinations of famed artist Liu Haisu’s “Ten on the Yellow Mountains,” forming a unique industrial aesthetic and architectural language. (2)502 Community Canteen: Located at 502 Jiangchuan Road, the canteen has a small library area built in and a platform designed as an open-air booth. Community film screenings, community speeches, community choral rehearsals and other group activities are available there. (3)Elderly street transformation: Through field research on the behavioral trajectory of the daily travels of the elderly, a slow-moving system was set up in key areas within the community, including a full-field handrail system, and a full-field ground guidance system. This was done to make the entire travel experience suitable for an aging population, to meet their daily out-of-town auxiliary needs, and to protect the elderly from routine accidental injuries. It was supplemented by landscape design, and the building of a square garden that allows the elderly to relax.
