SOHO Wisdom Granary of Dingzha Watertown

Jiaxing, Zhejiang Client: line+ Studio

As an important grain-producing area in the Northern Zhejiang Plain Area, built as a granary community in the 1960s, Dingzha is one of the earliest and largest "House Style Warehouse" representatives in New China. Among them, the reserved "Plain Concrete Arch Granary" was the first new granary type in China at that time. It was used as a setting for the 2016 movie Braving Wind and Waves. The old market town of Dingzha has come back into public view with a dramatized sense of ruins. The old granary, which retains the important marks of the production and development of the Times, has become an Instagram-Worthy Location for movie fans and we-media audiences. With the implementation and promotion of the integration policy of the Yangtze River Delta, this group of gradually forgotten building communities has been given new opportunities by the times.Architects hope to reactivate the "production" function of the granary as the agricultural building through the hard space transformation to the soft content production, reshape the local spiritual coordinates with the base of the agricultural industry, and create a space carrier of the Dingzha spirit and creative life, find emotional resonance for the former town founders, and also provide experience and practice space for the future content producers.