ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum by Wey Duan Luo

ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum by Wey Duan Luo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Gold in Architektur-, Gebäude- und Bauwerksdesign Competition Category.

GoldArchitektur· 2020

ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum

by Wey Duan Luo

Client: Ever Rise Construction Co., Ltd

A' Design Award in Gold Winner in Architektur Category

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The Design

About ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum

ERC Autumn Village ist ein Empfangszentrum in Taipeh, Taiwan. Das Gebäude vereint eine Buchhandlung, ein Café und einen Verkaufs- und Empfangsbereich auf einer Fläche von 926 Quadratmetern. Im Zentrum steht ein Oberlichthof mit einem Wachsapfelbaum, umgeben von ineinandergreifenden Plattformen unterschiedlicher Geschosshöhen. Die Stahlkonstruktion verfügt über Holzdeckenplatten sowie eine äußere Ziegelwand, die mit H-Trägern und Metallteilen befestigt ist. Sitzmöbel, Beleuchtung und Schränke wurden maßgefertigt aus recycelten Holzpaletten hergestellt. Flexible Grundrisse ermöglichen die Durchführung von Ausstellungen, Vorträgen und Foren.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Gold

ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Gold, einer überaus prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, wunderbare und herausragende Designs. Gold-Gewinner sind äußerst innovative, visionäre und glamourös blendende Schöpfungen, die das Genie, die Weisheit und die Meisterschaft ihrer Designer widerspiegeln. Von ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgepriesene, trendsetzende und monumentale Erfindung ist, die beispiellosen Mehrwert liefert. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Gold prämierte Design ist ein spektakuläres, respektiertes Projekt, das den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie in hohem Maße zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. ERC Autumn Village Empfangszentrum erzeugt intensive Gefühle des Verlangens, weckt Leidenschaft, ermutigt zur Kreativität und fasziniert uns.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design concept of this project has implicated the current phenomenon - the vanishing of physical bookstore in this digital era. Integrating multiple industries like cafe, bookstore and reception center into one space, it also allows exhibitions, lectures and forums organized simultaneously. It has successfully attracted the public, transformed the concept of development project marketing with various interesting design features like skylight courtyard and flexible design elements.
Dimensions & Packaging: The area is 926 square metres. With a skylight courtyard at the center, surrounded by interlacing platforms with different floor heights, it forms an open mixed-use space. The arrangement of the metal frames on the glass wall is of note-like sequence. 1F has a courtyard, show house unit, cafe, kitchen and hot food area, bookstore, stair-seating, VR room, administration area, dining area, WC and storage room. Community activities area, exhibitions, seating area, forum space and terrace are on 2F.
Tags: Industrial, Flexibility, Bookstore, Cafe, Courtyard
Production Technology: The design team has created a unique construction of the external brick wall. It uses H beam and metal parts fixing the inner part of the hollow bricks, creating the facade with modern visual pattern. It is a steel structure building with wooden slabs floors. The custom-made furniture includes lightings, seats and cabinets built of recycled wood pallets. The height of the book displays compliances with consumer usability. The sitting area around the waxberry tree allows people to relax.
Design Challenge: Merging cafe, bookstore and reception centre for a development project into one space, is the greatest challenge of this project. Letting each of the businesses perform independently without affecting one another have become the design focus. The design team uses bookstore as the main theme, adding cafe as another commercial attraction to realize the spatial design of a grand reception centre for promoting the development project without any sense of conflict.
Research: The waxberry central courtyard gathers people to sit and interact with one another. The free-flowing circulation indicates the freedom of modern lives. The aroma of coffee accompanies reading activities of the public, form a lively scene. Going upstairs, surrounding the homocentric rectangular circulation space, one will enter a multifunctional space for exhibitions, cultural talks, parent-child events and etc. Visitors are able to conceive a pleasant experience in this vibrant space.
Inspiration: Due to the main facility of the Autumn Village residential apartment which is to be built, is focusing on the reading area, the reception center for this development project has targeted to break through the stereotype of general reception center, using reading activity as the core idea of the whole space to create a unique form of space with innovative integrated marketing model of different industries.
Project Duration: The project started in 1 October 2018 and completed in 26 May 2019, in Taipei, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The circulation is diverged into two main flows. Business consultation area is located behind the courtyard. Merges the real estate promotional event into commercial space softly, it rises the curiosity of the people. Extra-wide staircase allows people to slow down their pace or sit down to read. Theme exhibition area on 2F promotes works of local artists. The forum area, designed as stair-seating, can hold different events. The flexible changes of the layouts suit different functions.
Team Members: Lead Designer: Wey-Duan Luo
Design Team: Chien-Chun Wu, Tzu-Ping Chan, Teng-Wen Yu
Image Credits: Wey-Duan Luo