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Zhubo Design CO., LTD.'s Coastal Mansion Pavilion emerges as a commanding architectural statement captured during the liminal moments of twilight, where the deep cerulean gradient of the evening sky…

Coastal Mansion Pavilion by Zhubo Design Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.


GoldArchitecture· 2021

Coastal Mansion Pavilion

by Zhubo Design Co., Ltd.

Client: Zhubo Design

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Coastal Mansion Pavilion

Coastal Mansion is a mixed-use public pavilion on the shore of Tong'anwan Bay in Xiamen, China. The building holds spaces for exhibition, reading and physical exercise, and also serves as a station on the coastal walkway. The ground floor is left open and free for public activities, linking the interior directly with the surrounding landscape. The facades are formed by horizontal grilles of aluminum panels. Each grille is rotated to a set angle, so the amount of daylight matches the function behind it.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Coastal Mansion Pavilion is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Coastal Mansion Pavilion is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Coastal Mansion Pavilion creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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We bring over 20 years of expertise in architectural design, urban planning, landscape, and interior design to create innovative spaces that connect communities with nature. Our award-winning team specializes in green building, BIM technology, and prefabricated architecture solutions.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The project stands on the shore of Xiamen Tong'anwan Bay. From the start to the completion, the architects tried to respond to two questions: firstly, how to deal with the relationship between architecture and site; secondly, how to maximize the public coastal space. The design highlights the building to provide spaces for people's public activities. The open floor is designed to liberate the ground floor space, directly embracing nature and creating a multilayered spatial sequence.
Dimensions & Packaging
Type:Pavilion
Area:1846sqm
Tags
Public building, Zhubo Design, parameterization, construction, coastal public space
Production Technology
The facades are composed of a series of horizontal grilles of aluminum panels, which change the daylighting rate based on the logic of rotation. The control curves are matched with the rotation angles of grilles on building exteriors via a script. The data of each point matrix is in line with the angle of the corresponding grille, and satisfies the daylighting demands of the functional area on the related position, thereby realizing perfect, harmonious integration of functionality and form.
Design Challenge
Coastal public buildings are spatial media that connect the city and nature, and also an important part of dynamic urban space system. The challenge of the project design was how to endow the building with a public attribute.
Research
The facade design is based on in-depth study on local buildings in Southern Fujian, while also interpreting the flowing quality of ocean. Walls of local traditional buildings are constructed through a unique masonry technique, which stacks and interlaces irregular stones, rubbles and red bricks. Generally, stones are arranged vertically while bricks are stacked on horizontal level, which generates rich changes on facades and highlights a solid and magnificent image.
Inspiration
Coastal public buildings are spatial media that connect the city and nature, and also an important part of dynamic urban space system. This building typology provides a stage for citizens'daily leisure activities, and often showcases the image of a city and inherits its cultural context. Moreover, it's also a community destination where users can find identity and feel a sense of belonging.
Project Duration
Location: Xiamen, China
DURATION: 2016-2017
Operation Flow
This is a mixed-use public building, which serves exhibition, reading and physical exercise, etc. and also functions as a coastal walkway station. The overall planning makes use of the distance between dense towers and low-density multi-story buildings, hence forming a smooth shared public landscape axis, which links up all public nodes in the community and takes Coastal Pavilion as starting point. The key point of the project design was how to endow the building with a public attribute.
Team Members
Director: Yang Weizhong
Design Team: Xia Chong, Wan Wenhui, Tang Daiwen
Image Credits
Huang Zaohui
Xia Chong

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