因何我做苦竹斋。设计是一场修行，一种痛苦紧随着快乐的心灵体验，从而进入平静的彻悟，摆脱一切燥做，一切轻浮，一切骄傲，一切自负，放下一种极致的壮志，守住静笃。所以，这个空间从一开始就想做一个什么都不像的地方，尽量回避掉空间的特质。另外，总想在空间艺术视觉上，探索一种最低限度的可能，使一切回到简单、平实，不见任何法则、规律，只现空间本真状态。简单平实的技法，极致脆弱的材料，从而回到一切的原点，情感、技法，宛若婴儿，即“重返大地”。这个社会，这个圈子的现状，因为“有”，让我们如此的轻浮，如此的自负。只有回到原点，才能找回属于我们的来时的路。

故而，选作最低成本、最简单、最柔弱的竹篾，作为空间质感的表达媒介，取其柔弱，喻其谦卑之质。工法同样回归民间乡土基本工艺，手法极简，满足功能，满足视觉需要的根本。避开正式工匠的高级技法，我们追求的恰是一种脆弱与业余，让我方见其真，方能成就自我这内心本真。因为这个世界本不复杂，包括设计这个事儿，只是因为你我在这个世界基本的情感，亦或状态摒弃掉，去追求一种多余的神秘与复杂，故你我之世界，不见人文，不见情感，不见自我，更不见本真。

利用碳化过的竹板、竹篾的原始形态，不经任何规整的修饰，取其材料自然长短而为之，白色扎带固定，不用任何粘合剂等非环保材质，从而表达一种低成本、低技术的环保。其实，这便是我们几十年前亦或更早的本来的空间状态，是科技以及经济的发展，让我们在享受经济进步的同时，离我们的土地越来越远。我们在此，所倡导的是“人”做得起，用得起的低碳环保；我们的环保低碳空间是为“人”服务，不是给“神”服务。

当下，我们的经济繁荣，中国人文却倍受饥苦，倍显凄凉。在这个没有任何人文信仰的年代，我们应该思索，应该去体会，体会这个社会、城市、人群以及人群里可发生的一切。

引用大量民间收集的物件、家居作为空间陈设，岁月久远所带来的场所精神，渗透出的绵绵人文气息。质朴、自然的陈设，也是此空间人文的重要部分。

苦竹斋，放下自己，接入地气，如苦行，如苦修，如谦虚之竹，如凌风之竹，放低自己，方显在这个世界的胸怀；退隐艺术家，方显艺术，这便是“苦竹斋”，就是这样。

Bitter Bamboo Room

The reason why I design bitter bamboo room is to build a place like no other from the very beginning. The room tries to avoid spatial texture. For me, designing is a spiritual practice, and a psychics experience with arching pleasure that gives no respites, which leads to peaceful enlightenment; to casting off affectation, trifling, elegant and proud; to quiet sincere by dropping down ambitions. Besides, I always wish to explore a possibility of the lowest limit that could turn everything back to be simple and natural, to real state of space of no laws. We’d like to choose simple and natural skills, plus extreme delicate materials to a revivification of origin, no matter from the stand point of emotion or skills, all are like a newborn—re-entry to earth. In this society, desire makes us so trifling and proud. Only back to where it begins, can we find the road passed.

Therefore, we choose simple and fragile bamboo skins of low cost to show spatial texture. Bamboos’ soft flesh and nature of delicate and humble are the very merit fit in this design. Besides, we also use simple Chinese traditional folk skills to perform the basic visual sense. The design deliberately avoids advanced professional skills, but pursue a kind of delicate and amateur presentation to see the sincerity and gain the true ego. Actually, the world is not complicated, including designing. What really makes complicated is people in the world who abandon the emotion and real spirit to pursue a kind of excess mystery and complication. Then, humanity, emotion, ego and sincerity are fading away.

Bitter bamboo room is aimed to convey a kind of environmental protection with low cost and low-tech. The selected bamboo skins and bamboo patterns are fixed by white bars depending on their original shapes. It is a nature-admiring design without any artificial adjustment and adhesive. In fact, it’s common decades ago. However, we the line gradually is gradually far from land when indulging in the science and economic progress. So here we are promoting and specializing in affordable low-carbon green.

Now, the suffering, miserable humanity is obvious contrast to booming economics. In a no humanistic belief age, we should think and experience what’s happening in the world.

This space with lots of collected folk articles and household items expresses old spirit of place and reflects continuous humanistic flavor.

Bitter bamboo room is implying the soul in the whole in bamboo--be modest and humble. A great mind from a humble ego, a true art from a solitude soul, this is the very bitter bamboo room spirit.