About us

Chinese Architecture Corporation (CHIARC) constantly conceives and renders urban planning, architecture and research projects in China. Our clients come from all over the world and focus on traditions, harmonious relations and the emerging powers of unleashed capitalism. Our expertise in most Chinese regions is constantly growing. For our Chinese customers we currently also provide full service in Germany and the U.S.A. CHIARC has close relations with Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Jinan, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Chengdu, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou (北京、上海、重庆、济南、青岛、郑州、西安、成都、苏州、杭州、宁波、温州)。We offer a wide range of knowledge from building technologies and legal advice to cultural perception and local specialties against the background of a global picture.

Founder Ansgar Halbfas (MSc) was born in Germany in 1972 and graduated from the University of Stuttgart in 2000. His early projects during his studies are documented here, while private projects from recent years can be found here. He is a master in both urban planning and architectural design.
In 1996, while he was studying, he won first prize for his booth design for the Mannesmann Rohr Exhibition Stand competition and developed it's complex geometry using Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). In a follow-up study for the EPSON Corporation in 1998 he realized internet based planning of a project worth over 1M€ for the first time. He joined the Institute for Paraarchitectonic Phenomena (IPP) from 1998 to 2002 and published his first work about Organic Future in 2000.

Qualifications include professional photography and layout since 1994, teaching experience since 1996, CAM and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) programming since 1998. First public exhibition and paid R&D in 1999.
After his diploma in 2000 he realized his first Public Private Partnership (PKS) bringing together culture and commerce, architecture and urban legends. In 2002 his work was shown at the Fraunhofer IAO full immersion CUBE ⁄ CAVEE where he took his students first in 1998. He worked with architects like Peter Zumthor (Switzerland), Ando Tadao (Japan) and Max Bächer (Germany).

Major projects include the new German Central Bank Berlin–Brandenburg (1998, realized –2002), the Growing Chair; (1999), the executive suite of Mosbach Public Bank (2000), the Club MS Pussy Galore (2000, realized), Porsche Targa ⁄ 4S Product Launch Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (2001, realized), a private estate in the Provence (2005) and the Landart Panda Bear stretching over 40 hectare at Chengdu Research Base visible from space (2007, scheduled).
Ansgar (安建华|鼠) has been travelling to Japan and China since 1998. His first published book, Sichtwelt, (together with J. Hass and G. Scholz) is about perception of Japanese culture and architecture. Movies include Porkshots, Fruit City, Melanome City, Creature Feature – Feature Creature and Japanese Interior. Lectures include Toolbox Town Planning, Computer Aided Architectural Design, LABS Studio (International collaboration in Los Angeles, Berlin and Stuttgart), 3D–GIS, Organic Future (Design and Media), Organic Future (Architecture and Urban Planning) and Nature Touching. Exhibitions include Zapata (Group), University of Stuttgart (Solo), Etage01 (S), Mukojima Lifelong Learning Center (G), Art Foundation Schwenk (S), Designers Saturday (G), Kunsthalle Kornwestheim (G) and Baukunst Essen (G).

Qiao Hao (乔豪) is CHIARC Strategic Partner in Shanghai: Born in Nanyang (Henan) in 1979 (羊) he graduated from Zhengzhou University in 2004. He developed his skills in drawing (freehand ⁄ 2D ⁄ 3D), architectural perception, structured approach to solutions and finished with the highest grades.
In his first Internet collaboration at university in 1999 he used FTP to transfer files around the campus and later throughout China. In addition to international standard applications in the building industry, he monitors the correspondent Chinese software market.

SNERDI (Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute) offered him his first work experience, with responsibility for quality control (design) and legal advice (design ⁄ construction) to local and international clients (more than 500.000 m²), followed by his first sports center at Wenzhou Medical College, first hotel in Shanghai [designed in 2005 ⁄ opening 2006] and first experience with ventures on the Chinese market.

Today Qiao Hao owns a share of Architecture Design Shanghai Ltd. (CC). Besides work, he is studying for his First Class Architect's License (1RA—PRC) and soon will be able to celebrate.

He has directed films about the Deng Xiaoping Commemorative Town (邓小平，刘伯承，贺龙) in the Jinyun Mountains near Chongching, while still photography is his favourite method for mapping architecture. He has experience in lecturing to large audiences and working under time pressure. His major influence in architecture is based on the partnership with old friends from SNERDI and the experience they have collected since designing in 1984 Qinshan I, China's first indigenously designed and constructed nuclear power plant.

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