Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives by DC Alliance

Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives by DC Alliance is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.

BronzeArchitecture· 2020

Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives

by DC Alliance

Client: Dc Alliance

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives

Ningbo Urban Construction Archives is an archive building located in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China. The design interprets the history of the city as a history of construction. Buildings are understood as assemblies of blocks, so the archive is composed of stacked blocks that combine the properties of space and material. The blocks are grouped into three types: transparent, solid and special. The site area is 6567 square meters, with 17190 square meters of floor area on eleven levels above ground and 6405 square meters on two levels below ground.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Ningbo Urban Construction Archives Archives splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: PartialBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This design hopes to interpret history of Ningbo through a practice of fortification. Base on the understanding of urban and architecture, architects superimpose the two properties of 'space' and material to support the concept of Building Blocks from another new perspective, and this is used as a basic element of design.'Blocks' are divided into three categories: 'transparent', real and special block differently.
Dimensions & Packaging: The total site area is 6567 sqm, which contributes 17190 sqm floor area on the ground and 6405 m2 floor area underground, with 11 floors and 2 floors respectively.
Tags: fortification, transparent, real, special, Blocks
Design Challenge: Archives, which is regarded as an important culture carrier of collecting and preserving history, has abundant historical and cultural significance. Ningbo Urban Development Archives is mainly used to collecting developing history of this city, that it is called “Fortification History”. So, the start of design in this project is how to represent the concepts about fortification.
Inspiration: City is composed by buildings, and buildings are constructed from different building blocks, which have special space and material attributes; hence, the history of city construction can be understood as history of fortification, and Ningbo Urban Development Archives is a collector of this history of fortification indeed. Base on the understanding of the city construction, we superimpose the two properties of 'space' and 'material' to support the concept of 'Building Blocks'.
Project Duration: Design time:2018
Project location：Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China
Team Members: Dongyi
Heweiwei
Image Credits: Image #1:Creator:Heweiwei (architect /Design Director);
Image #2:Creator:Heweiwei (architect /Design Director);
Image #3:Creator:Heweiwei (architect /Design Director);
Image #4:Creator:Heweiwei (architect /Design Director);
Image #5:Creator:Heweiwei (architect /Design Director);