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Hi Ladders High: A Non-Profit Pavilion Project

Hi Ladders High, a non-profit project, is a pavilion designed and built by left-behind children in the summer of 2018. The pavilion, located at Tanghe Primary School in Luotian County, Hubei Province, China, aims to provide a place of variable spatial forms, designed and built all by kids. The project was initiated by One Take Architects and volunteers, with the goal of using architecture as a medium to help these children grow and to show them a new world beyond traditional career choices.

The pavilion, named Hi Ladders High, is a unique structure that allows children without professional architectural training to be involved in the entire process of designing and building. It consists of twenty independent wooden ladders, commonly found in China's rural areas, and offers a highly adjustable angle of inclination, presenting numerous possibilities of spatial combination.

As an indeterminate building, the blank part of Hi Ladders High can only be filled by its users, the children of the construction camp. The project embodies the concept of 'an indeterminate participatory open-ended situation,' providing a space of variable spatial forms without preset functions, triggering or responding to events happening inside and continually manifesting new properties over time.

Hi Ladders High was awarded the Bronze A' Design Award in 2020, recognizing its outstanding and creatively ingenious design that contributes to quality of life improvements, making the world a better place. The project showcases the strong technical and creative skills of the architects and volunteers involved, as well as the resourcefulness and experience of the left-behind children who actively participated in its creation.

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