I am engaged in "cultural creation" by the river with fire cultural and creative blocks and towns

【What the Strivers Say】

During this year's National Day holiday, several cultural and creative blocks and cultural and creative towns that I led are still very popular. I was happy to see tourists having fun and merchants busy, and I myself was happy.

I studied architecture, and in 2013 I returned to Chongqing to work as an architect, and my first office was in an old factory building next to a park in the city center. The old factory looks dilapidated, but you can see the Yangtze and Jialing rivers.

I liked the place, a little nostalgic and nostalgic, and able to get a close feel for the development of the city. Together with my peers, I painted the mottled exterior walls of the old factory building and scribbled on it, but I did not expect to attract many people to "punch in".

This gave me the idea of a cultural and creative block. In 2015, I came to Beicang, an abandoned textile warehouse in Jiangbei District next to Chongqing's most crowded pedestrian street and the city's most popular night economy, Dajiu Street, but it has become a forgotten corner.

People living in Beicang were looking forward to the demolition at that time, and they were disappointed to hear that I just wanted to engage in cultural creation. Relatives and friends watched me spend all day in Kitakura from morning to night, and I was also worried. However, Jiangbei District has comprehensively promoted the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and supported my "organic renewal" of Beicang.

How does the green brick and black tile Of The North Warehouse integrate the precipitation of time with the fashionable life? I planted bamboo in the corridor in the middle of the warehouse and let them pass through the floor on the second floor to the transparent skylight. Decades old house, suddenly there is life.

I used half of the space to build city libraries, living aesthetics halls, art experience spaces and community buildings. In these public cultural spaces, you can flip through books, sip tea, and experience old crafts such as batik and embroidery. You can also do nothing, just come here to punch the clock and be in a daze.

Popularity has risen, and the investment has gone much smoother. I let each store design its own personality and style, and integrate it with the whole warehouse. The original staff dormitory, opened a "designer's shop"; the former bathhouse, turned into a mini music bar; and a restaurant like a factory workshop... Older buildings are more "cool".

Now Kitakura has millions of tourists every year. The old houses of the past have become the new fashion of "net red" in Chongqing. I was also invited by some districts and counties to create 6 new cultural and creative blocks.

The construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt attaches great importance to the historical context and cultural inheritance, and emphasizes the need to adopt more "embroidery" kung fu of "micro-transformation". I caught up with the good times, and they caught up with the good times.

(Interview and collation by Zhang Guosheng, reporter of this newspaper)

Source: Guangming Daily