Introduction
Located at 1 North Beisen Road, the site covers an entire block who measures 237 metres from east to west and 178 metres from north to south. It sits in middle of mature communities and is surrounded by streets. The land use of the site is for community sports. Originally there were a golf course and a natatorium – which has been preserved and rehabilitated later as a multi-function centre. A plot ratio of 2.0 is allowed, with 40 percent coverage and the maximum height of 24 metres.
Reason to Be Selected
The project aims to integrate a variety of social resources combing sports and leisure activities, cultural and artistic events, and fashion and creative industries into one a local collective-living space. The project expects to fulfil various practical needs and continuously vitalize urban communities.
Highlights:
To makes the best use of the current situation – an entire block with specific height limit and surrounded by high-rise buildings, the design employs low-rise buildings as a focal point for the high-rise residential communities and wide horizontal span as a dimensional advantage.Details
The building has two full stories underground, and five to six stories aboveground; it encloses continuously at the east, south and west sides to the maximum extent. The enclosing layout with a sequence of wide horizontal floors and eaves forms a powerful aura field and distinct the project from the surrounding urban environment. The four bridge-gallery entrances on the ground floor and the colonnade of elevated track on the north connect the internal and the external and makes the courtyard an enclosing yet open site.
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The street facade has an open cantilevered exterior corridor so that every shop can face the street in independent way. The outreached veranda strengthens the horizontal direction and forms a clear public space; while the interface between indoors and outdoors set back behind the orderly columns and uses aluminium frame high-permeable glass. It is simple, common and functional without any special designs in order to allow potential individual decoration and presentation and eventually develop a much more diversified facade display.
The internal facade has continuous balconies that allows all users can share the inner court view. In the courtyard, its line of sight is from the periphery to the centre that similar to the structure of Coliseum. Wide bar table-styled balcony handrails are made of high-resistance reconsolidated bamboo can be used as desk for reading or working while enjoying the courtyard view. Removable partition walls can be placed at every bay width. Therefore it can be adjusted flexibly according to different circumstance. Nevertheless, the heterogeneous shop decoration will be included into the order of the large compound, and consequently generates a rich but homogenous marketplace facade.
Conclusions
Without setting standard floors, the design employs varied floor heights to meet different functional requirements. It also adapts the “Honeycomb-core hollow dense-rib floor system” in order to create wide open space with higher storey height to meet flexible and various needs. To highlight the importance of the entrance, such system is used without internal mould and exposes the intersecting parallels-shaped bottom surface of the dense-rib beams. It aims to produce effects similar to the traditional caissons ceiling via basic construction method.
| Lat: | 30.05 |
| Lng: | 102.54 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | Asia |
| Scale: | District |
| Field: | Residence |
| City: | Chengdu |