Light Portal Future Rail City by QUAD Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Competition Category.
GoldUrban Planning· 2020
Light Portal Future Rail City
by QUAD Studio
Client: QUAD studio
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Urban Planning Category
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About Light Portal Future Rail City
Light Portal is masterplan of Yibin Highspeed Rail City. A reform of lifestyle recommends to all age all year round. Next to Yibin High Speed Rail Station which operated since June 2019, Yibin Greenland Centre comprises of 160m tall mixed-use Twin Towers integrate architecture and nature with the 1km long landscape boulevard. Yibin has a history for more than 4000 years, accumulating wisdom and culture just like the sediment in the river marked the development of Yibin. The Twin Towers serve as a light portal to guide visitors as well as a landmark for residents to assemble.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Light Portal Future Rail City 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. Light Portal Future Rail City 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. Light Portal Future Rail City creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Inspiration: Twin Towers symbolized as gateway to Yibin and lighthouse for Yangtze River reflecting the distinctive geographical location of the city while connecting heaven and earth through its guarding light as metaphor
What is the most unique aspect of your design?
Yibin Greenland Centre comprises of 160m tall mixed-use Twin Towers integrate architecture and nature with the 1km long landscape boulevard. Yibin has a history for more than 4000 years, accumulating wisdom and culture just like the sediment in the river marked the development of Yibin. The Twin Towers serve as a light portal to guide visitors as well as a landmark for residents to assemble.
Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
Architects envisions this mega project can be rooted in local Yibin culture and both façade design, landscape design and masterplanning can reveal the distinct regional natural features and its geographical significance
Local plant species widely used and arranged as four seasons garden in central park.
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- Unique Properties
- Integrating architecture and nature, shaping new lifestyles for future residents of Highspeed Rail City, Light Portal is designed meticulously. Located adjacent to Yibin High Speed Rail Station, Yibin Greenland Centre comprises of 160m tall mixed-use Twin Towers framing 1km long landscape boulevard.
QUAD believes a park should be multi-dimensional living platform rather than flat surface. To maximize the use of underground spaces, besides car park, a Botanic Educational Centre and a Sports Centre will be built underground in the east side of the park due to the natural topography. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Parametric designed solar shading device- aluminum fins in tower curtain wall system in 1.2m high x 300-500 deep a piece
Total Twin tower site area 37390 square metre
Total project construction area 15000 square metre
Twin tower building height 163m/168m
Total Central Park site area: 76570 square metre - Tags
- TOD, Yibin, High speed rail, mixed use, central park, intelligent city, Highspeedrail City
- Production Technology
- Main Construction Materials: steel, Low-e glass curtain wall, aluminum fins, stainless steel, limestone, homogeneous tile.
- Design Challenge
- Architects has to complete the design in tight construction cost and limited time, while the site, extra focus has put on designing terraces, public stars and ramps in central park due to its significant level difference along the north south axis. Local plant species carefully chosen to be evergreen, easy to maintain and compatible in colors and shapes with site surroundings.
- Research
- Architects envisions this mega project can be rooted in local Yibin culture and both facade design, landscape design and masterplanning can reveal the distinct regional natural features and its geographical significance.
Local plant species widely used and arranged as four seasons garden in central park. - Inspiration
- The Light Portal symbolized as gateway to Yibin and lighthouse for Yangtze River reflecting the distinctive geographical location of the city.
In this central axis park that bears ideal life of Yibin in the new era, based on the ecological context of the city, the designer conceived a large urban park and created a colourful painting for this green ecological city. With the twin towers flanking the fluid central landscape boulevard, the twin towers will represent a tower of light that will be the iconic symbol for the new Yibin High Speed Rail City. - Project Duration
- The project is located in Yibin, China The design aimed to commence in mid 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Twin towers:
Vertical aluminum fins applied on tower curtain wall as main solar shading device, while the parametric-designed incremental change in fin depth along the façade generates a subtle and elegant wave pattern viewed from distant, echoing the Yangtze River concept.
Tower mass deliberately well proportioned reflecting different function in each zone by introducing a central slot throughout the height of tower. This LED embedded central slot gives out a mesmerizing, continuous beam of light projecting to the sky at night.
Twin tower podium:
Podium divided into 4 interlocking masses in order to create multi dimensioned open space and maximize the views to central park.
Central Park:
Over 1 km long central park consists of 4 plots connected by 3 serpentine footbridges, cladded in local blossoms, descending to heart of park in ramp.
Public viewing decks also provided at footbridges to provide best view to central park. - Team Members
- Kelvin Chu
Wai Tang
Adrian Pang
Diane Zhou
Jack Zeng
Jimmy Li
Yuanping Qian
Ashley To
Tianzhu Zhao
Quinton Zhang
Beidun Huang
Tim He - Image Credits
- All images, ICON, 2019
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