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The Redefining of Space in Scattered Narration

20/03/2026
BUZZ’s Manor Mirage occupies the site of an abandoned concrete bridge. The bridge’s piers remain deeply embedded in the earth, their rigid geometry interrupting the visual flow between the field and the open sky. The team approached this fragment of infrastructure not as a ruin to erase but as a foundation to reimagine. Through glass and metal, the building assumes the qualities of reflection and diffusion. Its curtain walls mirror the wheat field and shifting clouds, and the white steel frames register as a rhythm of lines. It is part architecture, part optical illusion. From a distance, the building reads as a diffused extension of the plain itself, rather than as a single object.To reconcile the mass of the old bridge with the openness of the site, the team devised a ‘pixelated’ facade system composed of ultra-white glass and intersecting metal frames. These linear grids diffuse the building’s edges, breaking its solidity into layers of depth and transparency. As sunlight moves across the site, the frame’s density alternately reveals and conceals, lending a sense of vibration against the landscape.
Speakers
Ziyu Zhuang, BUZZ/Büro Ziyu Zhuang, Founder and Principal Architect