Seal Edifici d'Arxiu by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Bronze in Disseny d'Arquitectura, Edificació i Estructures Competition Category.

BronzeArquitectura· 2022

Seal Edifici d'Arxiu

by Peng Xiao

Client: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Seal Edifici d'Arxiu

Segell és un edifici d'arxiu situat a Wuhan, Hubei, Xina. L'edifici té una superfície bruta de 57.487 metres quadrats i una alçada de 66 metres. La forma combina una torre i un podi, cosa que allibera espai compartit a les plantes inferiors i situa l'emmagatzematge de l'arxiu a les plantes superiors. Els recorreguts de circulació pública i professional estan separats. La façana s'inspira en el segell xinès i presenta línies temporals d'esdeveniments històrics de la ciutat. S'apliquen materials locals i tecnologies de baix carboni. Una sala multiusos i una gran sala de reunions estan obertes al públic.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Seal Edifici d'Arxiu és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Bronze, un reconeixement altament prestigiós concedit a dissenys sobresortints que es distingeixen per la creativitat, l'enginy i l'astúcia. Els guanyadors de Bronze són artefactes ampliament hàbils i sorprenentment creatius que autentiquen la vasta experiència, la imaginació i el recurs dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Seal Edifici d'Arxiu sigui un objecte molt apreciat, admirat i estimat, notablement professional i innovador. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora les millors pràctiques de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia i és excel·lent per la seva atenció al detall. Seal Edifici d'Arxiu satisfà esplèndidament les necessitats, toca els desitjos, encisa els sentiments i crida la curiositat.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total Land Area: 13291 square meters
Gross Floor Area: 57487 square meters
Height：66 meters
Tags: culture sharing space ecologic
Production Technology: City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city.
Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.
Design Challenge: Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.
Research: Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.
Inspiration: Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern.
Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates.
Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.
Project Duration: The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Operation Flow: The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.
Team Members: Director:
Xiao peng, Zhang songmin
Team members:
Li li, Liu fengqi, Li hongsheng, Shu xiaoling, Ge xiang, Li dongmei, Peng yiqi, Ye xin, Chen junyu, Wu jiangtao, Zhen mengdi, Zhang di, Xiong xiaoping