Cloud Step Garden

踏云花园

2023

Metaverse environment, CGI images

A project in Baidu Xirang 百度希壤

Commissioned by Cenbo

The fusion of classical Chinese garden and contemporary digital interface aesthetics creates a brand-new visiting experience and explores a unique path to modernize traditions. Boundaries in architecture and space dissolve: both flat and 3D, scenes change step by step, and there are surprises in the painting.

“Cloud” means not only digitization, but also the dissolution of boundary. The endlessly repeating gradients and dreamy colors bring a sensation of contemporary speed. The experience of walking and switching perspectives, with the clouds fading in and out, reflects the ubiquity of digital interaction in contemporary life.

Classical Chinese architecture characteristically forms layered spaces with repeating lines and surfaces. The depiction of architecture and space emphasizes not three-dimensional distance, but composition and content. This is in line with our flattened, content-oriented, and cross-boundary lifestyle influenced by digitization. The aesthetic direction thus combines classical idealism and digital modernism in the making of the domestic space.

古典中式宅院与当代数字交互设计美学相融合，创造出全新而非凡的参观体验，探索一条将历史传统当代化的独特路线。建筑与空间的边界消解，既是平面，又是立体，移步换景，画中有惊喜。

云，既意指数字化，也表达边界的消解。无边重复的云状渐变和梦幻色彩，富有当代感和速度感。在这座宅院里的行走和视角切换，不断在云之间渐进渐出，映射当代生活中连续不断的数字交互的存在。

中式建筑以重复的线和面构成扁平化而富有层次的空间，建筑与空间的画面描绘不强调立体远近，而在于构图与内容。这与当代数字生活带来的扁平化、内容化、去边界化的生活方式相契合。基于这种思考，两者相融的美学效果油然而生，古典理想主义与数字现代主义一起创造一种新的居家空间。