Yet another workshop

The Memory

Keeper Guang

Zhou - YAYA

08-16-2025

4-6-19

“We’ve finally found a home for the puppy we raised as teenagers, and we’re also setting aside a patch of grass where our future selves can lie down and reflect.”

- Homeowner

This is an architectural exploration of memory, time, and identity.

The design aims to achieve an emotional translation—transforming intangible memories into tangible spatial materiality—while meeting the demands of modern life and constructing a temporal vessel that both carries the past and nurtures the future.

The space is conceived as an archive that records time. Like archaeologists, we identify and extract the “emotional remnants” from the old house: the paw prints a puppy left on the door during our youth, the metal trim in our grandmother’s room, an old porcelain pillow. These are not preserved as antiques in their original form, but serve as the starting point for the design, translated into a new spatial language.

Those claw marks, as chaotic as a Cy Twombly painting, are transformed into a fiery red vein of stone on the floor. They are no longer dust-covered memories, but a warm manifestation—an eternal testament to the vitality of past lives in the present. Grandmother’s room has been opened up, yet a slender metal frame precisely traces its former outline—a presence in absence, a spatial suggestion of loss and inheritance.

Design is not merely about looking back; it is also about looking forward. Our response to the “future” is not to offer a rigid solution, but to prepare a blank space where growth can flourish.

Complementing the red stone that symbolizes claw marks is a vast expanse of serene yet vibrant green stone, representing a “silent invitation” extended to one’s future self. It is a visual tundra and spiritual It offers shelter as well as breathing room; it is a “bunker” where one can retreat into defense, yet also a window through which the view extends to the distant horizon.

M.B.Gorffstein

Here, red and green are not opposites, but rather a symbiosis and dialogue across the timeline. Red is the past crystallized in green, and green is the future breathed by red. Together, they enclose a complete cycle of life.

Ultimately, the home itself becomes a three-dimensional reply, answering the client’s initial philosophical inquiry. It successfully infuses the emotional emotional richness into the functional shell of the “new home,” achieving a gentle transition from “returning to the old home” to “moving toward the new home.” Here, every detail is an overlay of time, bearing witness to how memories are revealed, how the future is prepared, and how a person settles into their life within this space.

“我们终于安顿好少年时期养的小狗，

亦要为未来的自己预备一片可以卧下沉思的草坪。”

- 业主

这是一次关于记忆、时间与身份的建筑性思考。

设计的目标是实现一种情感的转译——将无形的回忆转化为可感知的空间物质性，在满足现代生活需求的同时，构建一个既能承载过去、又能孕育未来的时间容器。

空间被视为一座记录时间的档案馆。我们像考古学家一样，甄别并提取旧宅中的“情感遗存”：少年时小狗在门上留下的爪印、祖母房间的金属边框、一件旧瓷枕。这些并非作为古董被原样封存，而是作为设计的源点，被转译新的空间语言。

那狂乱如Cy Twombly画作的爪印，被转化为地面之上一片炽烈的红色石材脉络。它不再是尘封的记忆，而是成为一道温暖的显影，是过往生命力量在当下的永恒公证。祖母的房间被打开，但一道纤细的金属边框精确地勾勒出它曾经的轮廓，这是一种缺席的在场，一道关于失去与继承的空间暗示。

设计不仅关于回溯，更关乎前瞻。我们对“未来”的回应，并非提供一种僵化的解决方案，而是预备一片可供生长的留白。

与象征爪印的红色石材相呼应的，是一大片沉静而蓬勃的绿色石材，它象征着向未来自我发出的“寂静请柬”。它是为那个“可能更为固执、疲倦不堪的十年后的我”所预留的视觉苔原和精神的草坪。它提供庇护，亦提供呼吸的缝隙；它是一个可以紧缩防守的“碉堡”，亦是一扇视野可延展至远方的窗。

红与绿，在此并非对立，而是时间序列上的共生与对话。 红是绿沉淀的过去，绿是红呼吸着的未来。它们共同围合出一个完整的生命循环。缺席的在场

最终，这个家本身成为了一封立体回信，回应了业主最初的哲学叩问。它成功地将“旧屋”的情感密度注入“新家”的功能躯壳，完成了一次从“重返旧家”到“迈向新家”的温柔过渡。在这里，每一个细节都是一处时间的叠影，见证着记忆如何被显影，未来如何被预备，以及人，如何在此间安顿好自己的一生。

缺席的在场

Presence In Absence

已经逝去的奶奶的房间被拆掉，留下了金属边框作为她曾经房间的暗示，她床边的窗户边留了个小边椅，和她的瓷枕头。

因此我可以和她一样背靠着窗小憩

The room of the deceased grandmother was demolished, leaving a metal frame as a hint of her former room. A small armchair and porcelain pillow were left by the window beside her bed.

地板上金属边框作为曾经房间的暗示

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记忆的显影

Memooery manifested

" 少年时的狗，负责每天早上把我叫醒上学，于是家里的门上布满了他急促敲门的无序爪印，这个如同 Cy Twombly 画作的图案。"这决定了一部分石材纹理的选择。

The dog from my youth was responsible for waking me up to school every morning, so the door at home was covered with the disorderly paw prints of his hurried knocking,This is like the pattern in a Cy Twombly painting. This determines the selection of some stone textures.

© Cy Twombly

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时间痕迹于石间的转译

未来的草坪

The lawn of tomorrow

红是逝去的显影，绿是生长的留白，我们终于安顿好少年时期养的小狗，亦要为未来的自己预备一片可以卧下沉思的草坪。

Red is the development of what is gone;Green is the negative space for what is yet to grow.We have finally laid to rest the dog of my boyhood,and must now reserve a lawn for my future sel — to lie down and ponder.

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主创建筑师：

张逸云

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