Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio by Thad

Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio by Thad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award di Bronzu in Disignu d'Architettura Competition Category.

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Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio

by Thad

Client: Thad

A' Design Award di Bronzu Winner in Architettura Category

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The Design

About Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio

Lakeshore Learning Center hè una caffetteria universitaria è una sala studio situata in Zhuhai, Guangdong, Cina. U prughjettu hà ristrutturatu duie custruzzioni inacabbate chì stavanu ind'u centru d'un campus in una valle dapoi decennii. E strutture esistenti sò state cunservate è revestute cù panelli ceramichi di culore chjaru è muri à cortina di vetru. E sporte di u tettu è e doppie pelli formanu un sistema di paravento chì migliurighja l'ambiente internu. A vegetazione esistente hè stata mantenuta, è i pendii ripidi di u lavu sò diventati chjuchi piazze. A superficia di l'edifiziu hè di 899 metri quadrati.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Bronzu

Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Bronzu, una ricunniscenza assai prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni eccellenti chì si distinguenu per a creatività, l'ingegnu è l'acutezza. I vincitori di Bronzu sò artefatti largamente abili è sorprendentemente creativi chì autenticanu a vasta sperienza, l'imaginazione è l'ingegnosità di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio sia un oggettu assai apprezzatu, ammiratu è caru, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è innuvatore. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Bronzu incorpora e migliori pratiche di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia è hè eccellente per l'attinzione à i detaglii. Lakeshore Learning Center Caffetteria Universitaria, Sala Studio suddisfa splendidamente i bisogni, tocca i disideri, incanta i sentimenti è chjama a curiusità.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is about a campus area renovation. Located in a mountainous region, the Zhuhai campus of Beijing Normal University is a beautiful valley university. In the center of the campus, however, an area of two unfinished buildings had existed for decades, which was quite incompatible with the surrounding landscapes. The project renovated the buildings as well as activated the surrounding environment, and eventually succeeded in making the whole abandoned area into a dynamic public place.
Dimensions & Packaging: Building Area: 899 square meters
Tags: renovation, campus, nature, valley, landscape
Production Technology: During the renovation, the structures of the two unfinished buildings were preserved. Responding to the climate and landscape features in the south, light-colored ceramic panels and glass curtain walls were adopted to the buildings. Roof overhangs and double skins form a sunshade system to improve the indoor environment. With the help of ventilation software simulation, the design of windows and exterior landscapes were optimized to create a pleasant indoor and outdoor wind environment.
Design Challenge: Before the renovation, the original buildings were separated from the environment. The project used unified materials and modulus to integrate the buildings and landscape as a whole. The height of the buildings were strictly restricted to keep the view of the landscape from the lake in the campus center. Moreover, we diminished the volume of the buildings on the side of the main campus road through the treatment of height difference, integrating the buildings into the valley environment with a humble gesture.
Research: The renovation work was carried out on the basis of respect for the existing elements. Vegetation on the site have been preserved to form landscape nodes; the original steep slopes along the lakeshore have been converted into small plazas of different elevations.
Meanwhile, safety risks were resolved. Considering that Zhuhai is often affected by typhoons, we dredged the blocked discharge channel in the process of lakeshore reconstruction. Also, a few landscapes walls were set aside inclined trees to prevent them from collapsing in the wind.
Inspiration: With China's rapid urbanization, many areas have been constructed under rough design and construction, leaving behind a great number of negative spaces. This has caused landscape damage and space waste. This project tried to recreate an active public place out of an abandoned area, while retained the original features of the site.
Project Duration: The project finished in November, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China in 2019.
Team Members: Architect In Charge: Wei Zhang, Design Team: Haiyang Huang, Jingxian Zhao, Xiaoqian Zhang, Mingcheng Cai, Sisi Liang (site plan), Xiangyi Li (landscape)
Image Credits: all the copyright reserved by Qingshan Wu