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Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage by Likun Shen

Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage by Likun Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Bronze in Architektur-, Gebäude- und Bauwerksdesign Competition Category.


BronzeArchitektur· 2023

Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage

by Likun Shen

Client: Gad

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Architektur Category

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The Design

About Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage

Tianqingli Residential ist ein Wohnensemble am Nordufer des Shangtang-Flusses in Hangzhou, China. Der Entwurf überträgt die Architektur der Song-Dynastie in eine schlichte, moderne Formensprache und hält die traditionellen Formen dabei lesbar. Auf einem Grundstück von 17.900 Quadratmetern sind zweiunddreißig Wohneinheiten angeordnet. Mehrere Höfe und Gassen verbinden die Häuser mit den umliegenden Hügeln und Wasserflächen und schaffen ein Gleichgewicht zwischen Offenheit und Privatsphäre. Ein Vorhangfassadensystem aus einer Kombination von Aluminiumlegierung und Holz unterstützt das traditionelle Erscheinungsbild und hält gleichzeitig Kosten und Bauzeit im Rahmen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. Tianqingli Residential Wohnanlage befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The project is located at the north side of Shangtang River, a canal tributary of Hangzhou, as the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Relying on the landscape of hills in the east, the project aims at becoming the first Song-style residential cluster with Chinese traditional gardens in China, and tries to explore the possibility of the revival of oriental classical culture from the perspective of the contemporary and sustainable development of traditional architecture.
Dimensions & Packaging
The total site area is 17900 sqm, the total building area is 8500 sqm, and 32 households are involved.
Tags
Song-Style Residential, Oriental Tradition, Settlement, Chinese Traditional Garden
Production Technology
Song-style is the most exquisite but not complicated architectural form in Chinese architecture history. The project reduces complexity to simplicity by using modern architectural language while maintaining the readability of architectural symbols, applies the technology of Chinese traditional style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wood structure, which obtains the Chinese Utility Patent, making the contemporary practice of Chinese traditional style buildings more sustainable.
Design Challenge
Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project creates a new living experience responds to the local climate and traditional living habits based on the characteristics of traditional residential settlements, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience.
Research
Since the Song Dynasty, JIE-DRAWING (to draw with a ruler and to obtain the clear boundary) had become a technique of Chinese painting. Compared with other kinds of painting, it requires to accurately and carefully reproduce the painted objects. Therefore, JIE-DRAWING has scientifically recorded the ancient buildings, urban features and living scenes of Song dynasty. Therefore, it is an important way to obtain the basis of design from the Song calligraphy and Song paintings.
Inspiration
This project creates the spatial pattern of multi-sided landscape and multiple courtyards, forming a direct dialogue between architecture and nature. The courtyard presents a natural openness while giving consideration to privacy. The project classifies the courtyards with the traditional Chinese garden landscape borrowing approach, thus the sequence between the private and public courtyards is more variable, which is closer to be in line with the contemporary aesthetic needs.
Project Duration
The project started in June 2018 and finished in October 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Operation Flow
This project combines the traditional residential form and the contemporary construction technology. From the perspective of cost and natural resources, the use of traditional Chinese style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wooden structure can perfectly present the beautiful form of traditional buildings, ensures the performance of construction, reasonable cost and construction cycle, it can be widely used in the contemporary practice of traditional Chinese style buildings.
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