Nujiang Grand Canyon Librairie Avant-Garde / Chinese Mainland
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Suspended Trajectory
At the threshold between village and canyon, Librairie Avant-Garde’s new outpost in Yangpo Village rises like a poised arrow—its angular volume stretched along the slope, ready to release toward the sky. The design draws inspiration from the Lisu people’s crossbows and arrows, translating their precision and tension into architectural form. Concrete planes and slanted roofs echo the kinetic energy of a bowstring under strain, while irregular apertures pierce the façade like notches for aim—each framing a fragment of the vast Nujiang landscape. Internally, a tri-level sequence unfolds: a light-filled café above, the main bookstore enclosed in concrete mass, and a subterranean theatre illuminated by refracted skylight. External terraces and circulation paths extend the spatial rhythm outward, merging architecture with the mountain’s contours. Both sculptural and symbolic, the bookstore becomes a living bridge—binding ancestral craftsmanship with a contemporary cultural presence on the Gaoligong ridge.
