Author: Kai Wang

Getafe Bullring renovation

Bullfighting once swept across Spain, filling arenas to capacity. Yet with the rise of animal welfare movements, this culture gradually faded, leaving venues like this one to decay and fade into the dust of time. Located in southern Madrid, this bullring similarly witnessed its journey from glory to silence.Today, despite the vibrant economic and industrial […]

Amersfoort – Koppelbrug Residence and Sport Complex

HEARTY CITY brings together Health, Energy Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence, Resilience, Tourism and Aspiration, and it encompasses our planning vision for the Amersfoort area. Recognized in the Athens Charter as “The vital needs of the individual: sun, space, greenery – these are the three essential joys of urbanism… The city must ensure both individual liberty and […]

Social Enclave

This abandoned factory, built during China’s First Five-Year Plan, was once a symbol of industrial progress. However, as society and Zhengzhou itself evolved, the factory gradually became obsolete and lost its original function. Our investigation revealed that abandonment is not simply a matter of neglect, but rather a reflection of how changes in people’s needs, […]

Turku Passage

  “Streets are an integral part of the community—not merely conduits for traffic, but spaces woven into the lives, memories, and affections of residents. For visitors, streets also serve as urban symbols. As tourists, we readily recall iconic avenues such as Orchard Road, Omotesando, and Nanjing Road. Streets embody the spirit of a city.”— Yoshinobu […]

Seoul Sejong Cultural Center

The Sejong Arts Center is located within Yeouido Park, a cultural green space situated in the heart of Seoul. The competition brief envisions transforming Yeouido into a global financial hub, and the new arts center is positioned as a landmark to redefine Seoul’s urban and cultural landscape through innovative architecture along the Han River.  Our […]

Sanya Residential group of Ethnic Minorities of Li

Nishita Village is located in Hainan is where the Li people, an ethnic minority in China, labour and live. Thousands of years ago their ancestors migrated to the subtropical island of Hainan, and for a long time they have been living in the jungle in a close relationship with nature. The ancestors of the Li […]

Tartu Downtown culture center

Guided by the principle that true sustainability lies in a delicate equilibrium—a balance between honoring the past, serving the present, and protecting the future—we sought to create a design that allows history to breathe again within the daily rhythm of urban life. In this spirit, we propose not a static preservation but a dynamic reintroduction: […]

Zhoushan Performance Theater

In the land of the cliffs of Shengshan Island, something alien from the sky descends, the metallic theater that shimmers with strange light is biting cold in the night, as if it were a relic from the world of the future, or as if it were from an alien planet, standing as cold and hard […]

Zhoushan Exhibition Center

The structure appears to be suspended above the pier of Temple Lake Island, with mist rising from below like a breath of life. An indescribable, mysterious atmosphere permeates the space. People gather from all directions, as space itself seems to converge—amid peach blossoms red, plum blossoms white, and rapeseed flowers yellow. Each blossom resides within […]

Zhoushan Restaurant

On the shore of Miaozi Lake, rocks, ruins, sun and beach, suddenly, a large, thin roof covered with rocks. Above the roof is the sky, and under the roof is tea, rice, oil and salt. Without boundaries, the realm of undertaking is no longer space, disintegrating the boundaries of direction, distance and physics, and divinity […]

Zhoushan Church

Hua Niao Island, whose name translates to “Flowers and Birds,” is celebrated as the Island of Love. Love embodies an eternal aspiration—a longing that transcends time. Yet time itself serves as both a stern test and a faithful witness to love. Similarly, architecture is often expected to endure, standing unwavering through the ages. But what […]

Sichuan Ya’an Country Bridge

The olfactory memory will make us remember the space more deeply. The form of the countryside bridge is gathered to the center, concave close to the river surface, Ya’an city flower osmanthus interspersed between the bridge, every year in September, October is the flowering season of osmanthus, the aroma will be gathered in the concave […]

Sichuan Ya’an Art Exhibition Center

Hushan Art Exhibition Center, lying on the water, overlooking the lake light, with the original power of the site’s light, the experience from the dim corridor to the central semi-open gathering space, and then to the “eye” crystal meditation space, the natural light brings the linear original driving force.The inlaid crystal meditation space, with different […]

Sichuan Ya‘an Sound Museum

The specific essence of the place is fed back to the mind through the “body sense” – smell, sight, hearing, touch, etc., which interacts with the spirit of the place, thus generating the “awe” of the perceived space. Space carries a mysterious primordial power that grows out of the site. In Ya ‘an, we transfer […]

Sanya Deepsea Museum and Sport Center

In the Jin Dynasty, Zhang Hua wrote in The Annals of Natural History (Bowuzhi), Volume 10: “As the old saying goes, the river and the sea are connected. In recent times, there were people living on islands in the sea. Every August, a floating raft would arrive. A young man, seized by a fanciful idea, built […]

Foshan No.1 High School

A. Learning from Nature 1.Spirit of Place (Sangji Fish Pond) – The historical traces of the place give the space its qualities. The good ecological effect of the traditional Sangji Fish Pond conveys the green concepts of ecological protection and recycling, presenting a unique micro-ecological green space system that feeds generations of Foshan citizens. 2. […]

Super-Nature Lecture

2022-12-31 the founder of JOA Kai Wang gave a presentation about the “Super – Nature” for 2022 Shenzhen biennale

Shenzhen Eco-Bridge

The roots of the city come from nature, and while mankind continues to destroy the environment in order to develop, it is also depleting and damaging our ecosystem.   The concept of Roots of the Earth, based on the original soil of the site, grows a new type of urban ecological and structural space that grips […]

What will be future city – Soul, Body, Space

Solaris projects potential beautiful souls through the body as a medium to transmit “love” into space, thereby forming a collection of spatial stories that share a similar gravitational field. Each space may exist independently, yet may also occasionally influence another independent space at some future moment. The logical thinking of genealogy, replacing the linear theory of traditional chronology, […]

Nanjing Culture Center

The essence of architecture is the product of culture. The generation of architectural form is linked to a deep structure embedded in the collective memory accumulated through urban history—a “collectal unconscious” that embodies shared values and an archetypal identity within a specific cultural context.– Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City Urban Cultural Cross A cross-axis […]

Shenzhen Biennale 22

可汗注视着他的帝国，被重压的大地和百姓，到处是财富，庞大的建筑，臃肿，紧张，沉闷。帝国再被它自身的重量压垮。但在他梦境里出现像⻛筝一样轻盈的城市。它是拉拉杰。月亮赐给它最罕⻅的特权，一切事物永无⽌境的成⻓力量。 拉拉杰是可汗⼼中轻盈的梦,也是每个都市⼈都需要寻找内⼼的庇护所。Gardens 成为城市中每个⼈⼼中拉拉杰，精神的寄托。在花园中，可以栽种自⼰喜爱的植物，给它起个可爱的名字，像是自⼰的新宠物。在花园中，可以创造自⼰的社交空间。在花园中，我们可以和其他不相识市⺠组合所喜欢的植物，放置自⼰喜欢的家具，一起喝杯午后的咖啡。在花园中，可以释放一天工作的压力，一种新的寄托。花园是周末聚会交友的好去处，⾮常吸睛。花园会出现在高楼林立的商业区，出现在密度过大的城中村夹缝中，出现在河道中，出现在无聊的屋顶上。花园越生⻓越多，它就像街边的便利店一样随处可⻅。花园融入了我们每日的生活中，参与到花园中，就像每天一杯续命提神的咖啡.花园建造的资⾦来源，源于每一位热爱生活的城市市⺠。未来的花园成为一种新的去中⼼化的经济体，带动更多商圈的参与性。花园中未来可以夹杂更多的城市公共功能，例如：书店，宠物店，理发店，展厅，图书馆，电影院。这些新型的功能联动，吸引了更多具有创意想法的年轻投资⼈的目光。我们新的品牌叫Garden, 我们有独立新的衍生品，⾐服，⻝品，餐具，甚至⻢桶垫。Garden成为未来数字货币的一个吸⾦的主⻆ – GardenCoin16. Garden 品牌未来与vr 技术结合，进入另一座星球。 Garden 进入元宇宙，可以更轻易自由的漂浮在城市上空。

Foshan Primary School

In Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, he describes the three metamorphoses of the spirit that humans undergo: first as a camel burdened in the desert, then as a lion, and finally as a child, representing a progression of three spiritual states. “The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-propelled wheel, a first […]

Wuhan Library

https://www.justopenarch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BookTopia_video.mp4 The mental space begins to shape human social behavior. — Marc PimlottThe Garden of Earthly Delights: A piece from the triptych created by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch at the age of forty, depicting the fantastical landscape of an expansive earthly paradise, where utopian life activities are immersed in wild nature. Book Paradise: A […]

Shanghai Bund Exhibition

The BUND Invisible： “The Grand Shanghailand Project ” exhibition is mainly divided into two parts: 2001 and 2021. Compared with 2001, the Grand Shanghailand Project 2021 is completed by a new generation of designers and artists. It consists of four parts: The Bund Waterfront Vitality Belt-The Bund Declaration, The Bund Avenue Public Square-Shanye Beach, Shanghai […]

Foshan Hongwang Headquarters

This is a reimagining of urban lifestyles, seeking new breakthroughs in modern urban public spaces. The design of Foshan Hongwang Headquarters Building in Guangzhou has prompted us to propose a groundbreaking proposition for future urban development, marking a milestone where urban expansion transitions from confronting to balancing with our essential natural environment. Deterritorialized landscape spaces […]

Yongxing Bridge

The only expression of “ART” in architecture field, is not the spontaneous creation from designer during processing of design, but it will be reflection on the future urban space which they created, on the spontaneous activities with collective memory at the public domain. -Aldo Rossi. 1/2 Bridge The essence of 1/2 bridge will render diversification […]

Minimal Condition of Architecture

There is nothing specific about the zone. It’s purely a place where a certain limit is set. You set a limit, you put a certain zone off-limit, and although things remain exactly the way they were, it’s perceived as another place. Precisely as the place onto which you can project your beliefs, your fears, things […]

Book BOX

BACKGROUND Songdo city aims to be an international trading hub. It will become a strong economic zone in yellow sea economic basin. Songdo IBD as “smart city” had 20,000 residents and around 12 billion invested in 2012. Until 2018 the population is growing into 50,000. Library buildings have assumed social and symbolic roles in societies […]

Seoul Biennale 2020

The changes in housing and in the land on which houses leave their imprint become signs of this daily life. ——“ The Architecture of the City” Aldo Rossi Housing is universal and durable topic，it also has a particularity. According to statistics from the United Nations, more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities. […]

JOA Shanghai New Office

Shanghai is transitioning, and the contemporary cosmopolitan values of a city are superimposed over the fading text of the palimpsest. Located in the industrial zone’s Yangpu District, the architecture office JOA has opened their doors. During the 19th century, important factories, and shipyards, some built by German industrialists, defined a mechanistic landscape. Today, the area […]

ECOC2025

Urban regeneration project: connecting the two cities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica by designing a common central area: the Europe Square – Piazzale Della Transalpina and the transcultural hub EPICenter. This crossborder Competition intends to address the problem of uniting a city once divided by a border which no longer exists as a physical barrier in today’s EU。 After […]

Cheongju Cityhall

The new Cheongju Cityhall is not the grand utopia of political version of “total planning” , but it is the future collage of citizen participation and observation. It accommodates the whole range of utopias in miniature. It should project the requirement of everybody.The “City Projection” reflects the value of the past, the present, and the […]

Gwangju Library

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF CITY MAIN LIBRARY GWANGJU,S.KOREA Looking back at the evolution of library, globalization and digitalization is gradually eliminating  the identity of library. In the meantime, it also creates an opportunity for us to explore the new generation of future identity that represent the essence of a library——A hall of knowledge that integrate with the local […]

Warsaw Library

 “Libgen:Towards a new class of evolutionary libraries” international competition This model library is a fit for this city as an example for such fast paced development. The site selected for this project is located in the Mokotow district of the city>The challenge here is to design/complete rewrite the universal definition of public library and democratize education […]

Turin Sport Citadel

Archipelago: The Sports Archipelago can be defined with two principal of dimensions: Regional vs local. Regional dimension: Based on the larger scale, with the urbanisation of Turin, the Mappano town is merged into a whole domain. As a result of the development of Juventus stadium, the sports culture and environment further evolve into the space […]

Rwanda Chapel

The palace of Mwami in Rwanda shaped as a dome, become a symbol of local civilisation. The dome isthe important symbol to synchronise with local identity. In the meanwhile it also represents with publicand religious as new typology. Above the dome The space above the dome become a new public space for all races and […]

Shenzhen Biennale 20

The theme of the Bi-City Biennale this year is “Urban Interactions”, dedicated to two main sections,”Eyes of the City” and “Ascending City”, discussing the ever-changing relationship between urbanspace and technical innovation. In 2002, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen published an article in Nature, for the first time officially proposed the concept of “Anthropocene”, referring to the […]

Iceland Guest House

Heima is the scenario to describe the condition when the home become important. The condition shows the harmonious surrounding by the peaceful landscape The shape of Pyramid aims to find the logic of the typology of architecture as local and to stand out in the wild. The Pyramid is the evidence. It is a prototype […]

Fairy Tale About Future

ROOM Eva works as a virtual garden maintainer in the Brave New Life (BNL), a major 5-senses reality multinational corporation, and the biggest, most powerful company in the world. National governments also move into the new reality years ago. Each months, Eva devises her salary into four. One forth to invest, one forth to buy […]

USA Utah Prison

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Shenzhen Culture Kiosk

By subtracting a cone from a perfect cube with a 18m edge, we create the massing of the building and three openings to the plaza, the sea and the sky. The implementation of pure geometries expresses the order and power of human transformation of nature. The void left by the subtraction becomes the container of […]

Venice Biennale 2016

MVRDV designed a fully transparent kitchen as part of a satellite event for the Venice Biennale. The installation takes the typical modern day modular kitchen and looks at progressing the typology to improving the culinary experience and challenging the immense, yet generic, kitchen industry. The Infinity Kitchen wants to make better cuisine, better food preparation […]

Beijing Baita Temple Micro-renovation

“Yuan’er” (Courtyard), is the most essential element in the composition of the old town of Beijing. For a long time, “Yuan’er”contains all the possibilities of working, entertainment, leisure and dwelling for the local people. The space inside is usually very small, and living in it can be hard yet colorful. It is part of Beijing’s […]

Magazine Art and Design – 276

2022-12 JOA’s project of the 2022 Shenzhen Biennale as Topic of ” how to play the gardens – finding Lalaj” has been posted on the Magazine “art and design” No.276, at page 56-57.

Helsinki Museum

If we see the city of Helsinki as a house, this waterfront museum is conceived to be its veranda. Surrounded by the sea, greenery, historical buildings and urban squares, the given site has high quality panoramic viewing resources as its unique identity which, we think, should be kept for the public and strengthened by a […]

Seoul Tank Renovation

“New ideas need old buildings” – Jane Jacobs “The word ‘Loft’ originally referred to a generously large space with characteristic details, often in a former industrial building, which while retaining a certain degree of patina and decay was domesticated in a provisional way by its residents. – (City as Loft, 2012) Mapo oil-tank has lots […]

2022 Shenzhen Biennale

JOA participated the 2022 Shenzhen Biennale as Topic of ” how to play the gardens – finding Lalaj

WDCC Paris

JOA joined the exhibition of WDCC in Paris with topic of “the Bund invisble: the Grand Shanghailand Project”

Lost Focus Exhibition

在2022年3月12日，JOA开间建筑团队参加了上海主题为“失焦”的展览。 主要研究成都市国宁市场。 该提案与“自下而上”的方法相关联，以追踪声音而不是视觉对象，试图了解普通人日常生活的新城市背景。

HongWang Headquarters Break Ground

2022年3月3日，宏旺总部项目已破土动工，该项目将需要2年整封顶。 让我们一起期待我们在广东省佛山市的第一个42176平方米的在建项目。

Shanghai Rooftop

从2022年1月1日开始，JOA开间建筑团队在上海开展屋顶空间改造项目，旨在探索一个新的公共领域，其中包含最有趣的商业活动和360度城市景观。 未来将成为一种新的商业类型。

IFA Architecture Festival

在2021年12月9日，JOA团队设计的三个项目荣获2021年最佳公共建筑奖，华沙图书馆“书塔”； 都灵体育馆“运动‘孤岛’”和韩国市政厅“城市投影”三个项目。 与此同时，华沙图书馆“书塔”在IFA建筑设计节上荣获2021年公共建筑最佳建筑大奖！

Invisible Bund Exhibition

从2021年11月12日至2021年12月12日，JOA团队为“看不见的外滩—大上海乐园计划”展览出版了《外滩宣言》一书。

SABU 2021

2021年5月5日，JOA团队参加了在韩国首尔举行的SABU 2021.

JOA Shanghai New Office

2020年10月1日，JOA开间建筑团队搬入由上海旧工业厂房改造而成的新办公空间！

2021 Best Public Building

2021年12月9日，JOA开间建筑设计的华沙图书馆“书塔”赢得了 IFA 节 2021 年公共建筑的最佳建筑奖！

2019 Shenzhen Biennale

2020年1月25日，JOA开间建筑团队以“后人类纪”作为研究课题参加2019深圳建筑双年展！

Lecture in HMD

2019年10月24，JOA开间建筑联合创始人王开为HMD设计机构做讲座。

Lecture in Chenzhi Institution

16-08-2019, the Co-founder of JOA has given a presentation with topic ” Copy & Not Paste” in Shanghai Chenzhi Institution

Lecture in Shuishi Institution

2019年10月18日，JOA开间建筑联合创始人王开在上海水石国际做主题为“Copy &N ot Paste”的讲座

Libgen: Warsaw Library First Prize

2019年9月20日，JOA开间建筑团队设计的华沙图书馆“书塔”荣获 “Libgen：迈向新型进化图书馆”国际大赛一等奖！

Hongkong Pecha Kucha

2019年3月2日，JOA开间建筑联合创始人王开在香港 Pechakucha 发表演讲。

Suzhou University Lecture

2018年12月10日，JOA开间建筑联合创始人在苏州大学以“Copy & Not Paste”为主题做演讲

A Tale of Two Cities

the new research studio is launch on 2018, September, the topic is around to exploding the two city _Rotterdam and Shanghai, through typology methodology to explaining the city story and with new future intervention of Architecture, to find the new possibility of the future urban development and new living condition

Summer Workshop in Delft

20-08-2018 , 2018 Summer Workshop_Amsterdam Orphanage RenovationThe founders of JOA – Kai Wang with UPRO institution from Shanghai creates the new workshop for this coming summer 2018, the topic is focus on the rethinking the new condition of Amsterdam Orphanage for the new future environment.

UA Design Lecture

2021年3月9日，JOA开间建筑联合创始人王开在上海UA设计公司做主题为“从超现实到现实”的讲座

New Articles Publish

15-02-2018 , Rethinking the Public domainThe founders of JOA Kai Wang and Yinghao Lin publish the new articles – “What we learn from Acampada” and “Fall of the public domain” in CNKI and Magzine – “FANYI Proposal”Ⅹ about the topic of “Self – Cultivation in Public Space”.

Hornorable Prize

On 21-09-2017, JOA won the honorable prize for Huaxia primary school library competition

Delft Workshop

17-09-2017, UPRO Summer WorkshopKai Wang as co-founder of Just open architecture attend the workshop organized by UPRO institution from Tongji University, together with two Rotterdam young architecture office – DROM & Architecture for Urbanity (AFU)

Xima Laya Exhibition

2017年7月4日/ 后工业城市 – Utena（立陶宛）Just open architecture 正在研究和改造后工业城市——立陶宛的 Utena。 该地块位于未来城市将全力发展的多中心之一。 它位于湖周围的老城中心和啤酒、二手车和奶酪工业区之间。

Utena Urban Research

04-07-2017 / Post industry city – Utena ( Lithuania )Just open architecture is going to research and transform the post industry city – Utena in Lithuania. The property of site is located on the one of polycenters which in the future the city will be fully focus on developing. It is in-between the old city […]

Lecture in Tongji University

01-06-2017, The Co-founder of JOA – Kai Wang give the lecture at Tongji University about the topic “Architect Position”

World Architecture Review

On 28-01-2017, The project “a good prison” is featured in “ World Architecture Review’ magazine.

Sweden Private House

从01-06-2015, 瑞典隆德夏日度假住宅项目叫做“灼烧是种新的黑色”， 住宅别墅整体由于整体的黑色材料作为隐藏在森林里的宝藏。成为一种新的探索人与自然关系的可能性。成为一种探索如何跟自然共生的可能性？我们如何处理可持续发展的问题？项目本身将在2017年的四月开始建造。

Milian Expo Exhibition

2015年5月1日, JOA开间建筑参与了2015米兰世博会威尼斯分展馆的展场设计－“民以食为天”此次展览联合了中国文化宣传部，四川美术学院以及广州大石•馆。 整个展场的主题更紧密的探索了食品的制作加工流程，集合艺术和空间加以诠释，营造一种客乡却又身临其境的错觉。