Seal Arkivbygning by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award i Bronze in Arkitektur-, Bygnings- og Konstruktionsdesign Competition Category.
BronzeArkitektur· 2022
Seal Arkivbygning
by Peng Xiao
Client: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.
A' Design Award i Bronze Winner in Arkitektur Category
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The Design
About Seal Arkivbygning
Seal er en arkivbygning beliggende i Wuhan, Hubei, Kina. Bygningen har et samlet bruttoetageareal på 57.487 kvadratmeter og en højde på 66 meter. Formen kombinerer et tårn og en sokkelbygning, hvilket frigør fælles rum på de nederste etager og placerer arkivopbevaringen på de øverste etager. Offentlige og faglige færdselsruter er adskilt. Facaden er inspireret af det kinesiske segl og præsenterer tidslinjer over historiske begivenheder i byen. Der er anvendt lokale materialer og lavkulstofteknologier. En multifunktionel sal og et stort mødelokale er åbne for offentligheden.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Bronze
Seal Arkivbygning er vinder af A' Design Award i Bronze, en højt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles enestående designs, som udmærker sig ved kreativitet, opfindsomhed og skarpsindighed. Bronzevinderne er rigeligt dygtige og påfaldende kreative artefakter, der bekræfter deres designeres store erfaring, fantasi og snilde. Seal Arkivbygning forventes at være en højt estimeret, beundret og kær genstand, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionel og innovativ. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Bronze, indarbejder bedste praksis inden for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi og er fremragende på grund af sin sans for detaljer. Seal Arkivbygning tilfredsstiller pragtfuldt behov, rører længsler, charmerer følelser og appellerer til nysgerrigheden.
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
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