Liangzi Island Off-island Pier / UAO Design

Liangzi Island is a small island on Liangzi Lake in Ezhou, not far from Wuhan. If you encounter rainy and foggy weather, the visibility is not high, and there is a feeling of going to sea. At the moment when I was waiting for the return trip to board the boat at dusk, I felt that it was necessary to give this island a spiritual place that symbolized "going home", so that the usual ritual behavior of going to the island and outlying the island would have a little symbolism. I came up with a lot of words: "fisherman's lights", "lighthouse", "watching the sunset" to find a ceremonial anchor for this project. These nice anchors and flowery scheme rhetoric ignore a very rational functional requirement - that is, the act of going to the island and going down to the island itself.

Liangzi Island Off-island Pier / UAO Design
© Yilong Zhao © Yilong Zhao
  • architects: UAO Design
  • Location: Liangzi Lake, China
  • Project Year: 2023
  • Photographs: Yilong Zhao
  • Area: 2290.0 m2

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