Dongtou Passenger Port Cruise Terminal by Pengfei He is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
GoldArchitecture· 2025
Dongtou Passenger Port Cruise Terminal
by Pengfei He
Client: Simo Architectural Engineering Design Co., Ltd
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Dongtou Passenger Port Cruise Terminal
Dongtou Passenger Port is a cruise terminal located at Tantou Mountain Bay in Dongtou, China. The terminal links urban and scenic areas. Guided by the concept of symbiosis of mountain and sea, terraced setback buildings and planted slopes form a three dimensional space. The design connects the mountains and the coastline lengthwise and includes an 800 meter commercial and waterfront belt across the site. Transport, commercial and ecological corridors are placed on separate levels. A curved concrete shell structure, inspired by seashell forms, keeps the interior free of columns.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Dongtou Passenger Port Cruise Terminal 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. Dongtou Passenger Port Cruise Terminal 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. Dongtou Passenger Port Cruise Terminal creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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- Unique Properties
- Located at Tantou moutain Bay in Dongtou, the site links urban and scenic zones. Guided by the "Symbiosis of Mountain and Sea" concept, terraced setback buildings and vegetated slopes blend mountain and sea to create a three-dimensional space. Longitudinally connect mountains and coastline, transversely integrate an 800-meter commercial-waterfront belt, vertically zone transport, commercial, and ecological corridors, shaping a low-carbon symbiotic entity.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Site Area: 21,000 ㎡
Total Floor Area: 10,500 ㎡
Floor Area Ratio (FAR): 0.5 - Tags
- Terminal，Mountains and seas，Seashell，landscape
- Production Technology
- Employs a curved concrete shell structure,Ensure that there is no large space for columns in the room
- Design Challenge
- In a complex terrain environment, how can buildings blend seamlessly with the "mountains and seas", and how can they provide people with a leisure walking space?
- Research
- The base at Tantou Mountain in Dongtou constructs a three-dimensional space based on the concept of "mountain-sea symbiosis" and creates a low-carbon entity. The cruise terminal integrates the elements of Buddhist grottoes and seashells, creating the artistic conception of "Buddhist Grottoes in a Mirage City by the Sea".
- Inspiration
- The Dongtou passenger port draws inspiration from the curvilinear forms of seashells, integrating the morphological essence of Buddhist grottoes to craft the poetic concept of "Maritime Mirage of Sacred Caves." Resembling a colossal shell cradling a pearl, the structure materializes as a mirage-like seascape. Through layered archways and streamlined shell-like volumes, it enhances its landmark identity as a pilgrimage gateway while transcending Buddhist cultural motifs into contemporary poetics.
- Project Duration
- Location: Dongtou District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China
Design Period: January 2023 - Team Members
- Pengfei He
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