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Sunac Chongqing Dazhulin TOD Complex by Aico Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Aico for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Sunac Chongqing Dazhulin TOD Complex by Aico, designed for Sunac China Holdings Limited, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Sunac Chongqing Dazhulin TOD Complex
Sunac Chongqing Dazhulin is a mixed-use transit-oriented complex in Chongqing, China. The design covers three plots arranged along the boundary of an adjacent canyon park, with a retail podium of six floors above ground and seven apartment towers. A corridor on the third floor of the shopping mall connects directly to a light rail station hall raised ten meters above the ground. The facade is made of regular hexagonal aluminum plates, and the roof platform uses a large cantilevered steel structure. The complex links shopping routes with leisure routes in the canyon park.
Award Record
Aico is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/106961
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106961
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106961
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/278712
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sunac Chongqing Dazhulin TOD Complex
- Function
- TOD Complex
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray, Silver and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Sunac China Holdings Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Aico
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106961
Credits
- Team
- Rudan Ye, Mingjie Yang, Jiawei Tong, Guogui Zhu, Siwei Su, Weihua Fu, Dan Liang, Luqing Zhou, Jianhua Zhu, Qianhui Shi and Cong Chen
- Image Credits
- AICO
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Landscape roll" is the overall design concept of this project, which is inspired by the canyon park and natural water system adjacent to the site. The three plots are arranged in sequence along the park boundary, and the architectural form follows the transformation of the natural landscape of the city. The high mountain is the building, the river is the corridor, the gap is the street, the village is the lane. We designed pleasure routes and nodes in canyon Park and integrated them with Mall to create a city-level leisure destination.
- Inspiration
- "Landscape roll" is the overall design concept of the project, which is inspired by the canyon park and natural water system adjacent to the site. The three plots are arranged in sequence along the boundary of the park, and the architectural form follows the transformation of the natural landscape of the city. The mountain is the building, the river is the corridor, the gap is the street, and the village is the lane. Under the background of Chongqing Cultural Tourism, the play experience project is designed in the Canyon Park, and the integrated linkage shopping mall is built to create the urban-level leisure destination.
- Research
- 1. Project members go to the base site to fully investigate and understand the terrain, and use drones to take aerial photos. 2. Upper city planning of Chongqing where the research base is located. 3. Fully study and understand the local architectural design code requirements of Chongqing. 4. Understand the planning and design of canyon Park, and think about the design scheme for improving the park. 5. Investigate the age distribution and consumption demand of residents in the surrounding land of the base, and set up reasonable commercial functions.
- Challenge
- 1. The base is far from the city center and does not belong to the main business district. How to build a business with landmark characteristics is the challenge of this project. 2. The base is mountainous terrain, and the terrain near the park is precipitous, with a height difference of tens of meters from the lowest point of the park. 3. The east side of the base is along the urban road as the main display surface, but the light rail track and the platform are all located at a height of 10 meters on the ground, shielding the complex. 4. The base is divided into 3 plots by urban roads, with different elevations and weak plot connections.
- Realization and Technology
- As a mountain building, this project will apply mountain flood prevention technology and ground disaster prevention technology, including vertical elevation technology, building grounding technology, physical environment optimization technology and engineering pipeline technology. The Shopping Mall cloud-top adopts steel structure to achieve the effect of exaggerated and light shape. The cantilevered roof platform adopts large cantilevered steel structure technology. The facade of the Shopping mall is made of regular hexagonal shaped aluminum plates.
- Operation and Interaction
- The light rail station hall on the east side of the base is 10 meters above the ground. Therefore, the connecting corridor on the third floor of the shopping mall is designed to seamlessly connect the outlet of the landing hall and the shopping mall, and the giant screen and cloud roof are designed at the entrance. The striking shape is easy to attract people into the business. Inside the shopping Mall, you can enjoy the beautiful natural scenery of the canyon park.The commercial flow in the Shopping mall is connected with the play flow in the canyon park, forming the circular flow of the micro-blog travel.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2019,Located at Chongqing.
- Specifications
- Gross floor area: 241,920 sqm,Site area: 73,336 sqm,Retail podium: 117,700 sqm(including 7,135 sqm blow grade),Apartment area: 21,000 sqm,Six floors of retail above ground,7 apartment tower.
- Keywords
- Canyon parks, mountain terrain, scattered plots, light rail stations, landscape scrolls, cultural tourism, urban-level leisure destination
