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Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura by Yue Xu

Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura by Yue Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award nga Pilak in Disenyo sa Arkitektura, Gambalay ug Estruktura Competition Category.


PilakArkitektura· 2020

Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura

by Yue Xu

Client: Voa

A' Design Award nga Pilak Winner in Arkitektura Category

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The Design

About Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura

Book Text: Ang Mermaid Town Reception Hall usa ka kultural nga bilding sa Zhouning, Fujian, China. Ang komplekso naglangkob og 12000 ka metro kuwadrado ug nagsilbing sentro sa pang-turismong pag-apod-apod ug sentro sa kultural nga kalihokan. Ang disenyo naghiusa sa kuwadrado ug lingin nga porma, dinasig sa lokal nga arkitektura sa yutang kuta. Usa ka lingin nga koridor nagmarka sa utlanan tali sa duha ka bilding ug naghatag og pasilong gikan sa kusog nga adlaw sa ting-init ug gikan sa mauulanon, bugnaw nga tingtugnaw. Ang mga eksteryor nga bungbong nahuman gamit ang puti nga texture paint ug hinimo sa kamot nga gray nga tisa. Ang spatial nga mga aksis nagsumpay sa mga hawanan ngadto sa duol nga sapa, usa ka lanaw ug usa ka bukid.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award nga Pilak

Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Pilak, usa ka talagsaon kaayo nga prestihiyoso nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa labing taas nga lebel, matahom, ug makadani nga mga disenyo. Ang mga mananaog sa Pilak labihan ka hayag ug mamugnaon nga mga buhat nga nagpakita sa bantogan nga kahanas, talento, ug kamatngon sa ilang mga tigdesinyo. Gilauman nga ang Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura mahimong talagsaon nga buhat nga ipasigarbo, dako ang pagkapropesyonal ug lawom ang kabag-ohan. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Pilak usa ka labihan ka mamatikdan, gihangaan nga imbento nga mapuslanon ug nagpalapad sa mga utlanan sa arte, siyensya, disenyo, ug teknolohiya. Mermaid Town Reception Hall Primary Function: Kultural nga Arkitektura usa ka paglalang nga giinggit sa daghan, nga nagpukaw og mga tinguha, nagdala og positibo nga mga pagbati, ug nagsiga sa katingala ug paghangyo.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The site is surrounded by water in the north, dotted with hills. Designers adopted the gestalt geometry strategy as a positive means to deal with the contrast between artificial and natural, and achieved the Oriental aesthetic conception of round sky, square place, elegant and peaceful with the surrounding natural landscape, which is also the abstract expression of mermaid harmonious culture.
Dimensions & Packaging
The project covers a total of 12000 square meters. Under the background of the regeneration of urban and rural historical environment and the construction of Characteristic Towns in the ascendant, through the engineering practice of the reception hall of Zhouning Mermaid Town, the architects made a beneficial exploration on the direction of China's future small town construction.
Tags
Architectural Design, Oriental Elements, Tourism Distribution Center, Cultural Activity Center, Mermaid Culture, Global, Locality, Commemoration, Modern
Production Technology
The exterior walls of buildings are respectively painted with white texture paint and hand-made gray brick, which is a practical strategy to deal with the inevitable construction errors of China's rapid construction. In particular, the woven hemp rope background wall in the entrance hall of the small theater is the remedy taken by the designer to deal with the incredible budget errors.
Design Challenge
A circular corridor is set up at the boundary of the two buildings, which is not only the designers' response to the strong radiation in summer and rainy and cold climate in winter in Zhouning, but also a non-verbal expression of the path of fish sacrifice, a unique intangible cultural heritage of Carp Brook Ancient Village. Through the isomorphism of this ritual track, which has been accumulated for thousands of years, the architecture achieves a delicate balance between memorial and life.
Research
Carp Brook Ancient Village in Zhouning County, Fujian is a famous historical and cultural village that has lasted for more than one thousand years. It has built a beautiful scenery of Peach Garden where people and fish share happiness and live harmoniously, and everywhere embodies the unity of heaven and man pursued by Chinese traditional culture. This case is only one mountain away from Carp Brook Ancient Village, which is the distribution hub of the future scenic area open to visitors.
Inspiration
The purpose of this project is to interpret the tradition with the modern, change the life with the architecture, and revitalize the countryside with the design. In the northeast of Fujian Province near Zhouning, there are such unique architectural types as "earth fort", which is the combination of square and circle, and simple in volume. It provides inspiration for designers to build a "round sky and place" in the local context.
Project Duration
The project started in November 2017 in Ningde and finished in September 2019 in Ningde.
Operation Flow
The designers built a group of spatial axes connecting the turning points between the geometric centers of the two buildings. One side is adjacent to the Carp Brook in the center of the historical village, one side leads to the Longteng Lake in the center of the new town, and the other side is facing the highest Xianfeng Mountain in Zhouning. The building is firmly anchored in the context of the city, quietly telling Zhouning's past, present and future.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Yue Xu, 2019.
Team Members
Yue Xu
Lvting Qu
Xiaoyun Qi
Chencheng Li
Qizun Cai
Feng Zhou
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.

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