There is emerging necessity of architecture in our time when sensational interactions between human and environment are largely digitalized. While architecture continues to carry its everlasting mission- sheltering human’s fragile bodies- its role in Individual- Social- Nature relations become increasingly important. The sweeping global incidence of public health since 2020 is strengthening physical space’s position all the better in social lives. The quarantine on personal life evokes body’s desire on freedom of activities, freedom of social interactions, and freedom of explorations. Architecture is at the very epicenter of this wakening. It is its users’ behaviors’ reflection, extension, or resistance. Architecture give Freedom via Taken.
Forms of architecture as such are crystalized outcomes for ideology, instead of tools for mere visual expression. The complex natural and social context which architecture faces ask each floor plan, façade, and component to reflect individual on-site issues. Architecture thusly escapes the fate to be exquisite box that can only be watch and criticized from certain angles. Architecture is more of a metamorphotic medium, which constantly reflect and reveal uncharted surrounding natural and social orders, so to let project free of superficial pragmatism.
YES.arch is an architecture office which was founded at Beijing in 2018. Its past projects span across boundaries among various programs as well as geography. With its professional collaborators, the office is dedicated to design renovation, as well as offering characteristic solutions towards different issues. To arrive upon visions in previous paragraph, architects whisk away dazzling side-quests during their co-operation with clients, to reach each project’s core issue, so can organize form with precision and rationality.
