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Yulonghu Community Center by Shanghai PTArchitects Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Shanghai PTArchitects acknowledged for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Yulonghu Community Center by Shanghai PTArchitects. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Yulonghu Community Center
Yulonghu is a community center built in Xuzhou, China, next to the Dalong Lake Scenic Area. The plan follows the ritual architecture of the Han dynasties, with a central main hall and a progressive courtyard layout. Visitors pass an entrance lobby, an axial garden, a water garden and a curved bridge before reaching the main building beside the river. The base columns are made of white linen stone, while the entrance arch and the roof grille use copper-like brushed aluminum panels. The design joins local cultural tradition with modern construction methods.
Award Record
This recognition makes Shanghai PTArchitects a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2021 - 2022 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/131262
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131262
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131262
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/233760
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yulonghu Community Center
- Function
- Community Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Cornflower Blue, Sky Blue, Black and Steel Blue
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shanghai PTArchitects
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131262
Credits
- Team
- Hu Qiao, Huang Kai, Jin Guangshan
- Image Credits
- Photo Cradits: Chen Yuanxiang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is adjacent to Xuzhou New City Dalong Lake Scenic Area, a metropolitan TOP resource aggregation field integrating finance, education and stereoscopic landscape, with perfect surrounding commercial facilities and mature living atmosphere. The design continues the cultural deposits of the ancient capital, Xuzhou, adheres to the aesthetic mood of Chinese style, and fully explores the surrounding landscape resources to create a livable community center between mountains and water.
- Inspiration
- We pay attention to the spatial experience sense and the detail scale in the planning and design. In terms of function, it is divided into: Community Lobby, Entrance Axis Landscape Garden Space, Water Garden Space, Curved Landscape Bridge, Front Field Space, and Sale Office's main body. Based on a narrative spatial organization of multiple functional experiences, we present the environment as an overall visual image, generating a continuous interface along the river.
- Research
- For spatial flow, the entrance lobby adopts the atmospheric classical mansion-style entrance form to enrich the facade along the street and enhance the overall quality of the community; entering the exhibition area, the entrance axis landscape in the classical form of axial symmetry will be enjoyed; after the stacked stone water yard, it will present the arc bridge of the internal river, and the main building of the exhibition center on the other side of the river will come into view; walking across the arc bridge to the other side of the river and following the steps up, the entrance of the Sale Office will appear before us.
- Challenge
- In the design, the details of the overhanging components coming down from the eaves were discussed repeatedly to achieve a refined component, a far-reaching outcrop and a light effect. In the end, we have decided with the curtain wall and construction drawing unit to use the T-stub steel form, making the exposed structure achieve the expected effect.
- Realization and Technology
- The design of the entrance bucket arch was exerted repeated element refinement. Due to the design time deviation between the early building structure and the curtain wall structure, the on-site construction was in doubt. Then, we re-negotiated the strategy with the construction unit at the later stage to optimize the structure into a 14° eave slope and a 2.4 m projection on both sides of the eaves, creating a roof space that is structurally invisible from a human perspective, but extensible. Finally, this design gained a good display effect and achieved the expected effect.
- Operation and Interaction
- The building facade proportions inherit the three-stage composition of classical architecture and makes the design of the entrance arch incorporate modern techniques to reveal a highly aesthetic oriental modern aesthetic. As for sale office, its roof is inspired by the traditional Chinese palace architecture, "double-hipped roof", which enhances its sense of ritual and dignity.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Aug. 2020 and finished in jul. 2021 in Xuzhou, China
- Specifications
- It attaches importance to the understanding of the local and regional aspects of the design lot and the cultural lineage continuation of the local place. In regard of architectural form, we take the ritual architecture of the palaces and royal residences of the two Han dynasties as the planning blueprint in this case, following the ritual characteristics that build palace in the middle position, choose the high point to establish and adopt the progressive palace layout, and absorbing the Chinese architectural rituals into the space via modern expressions to form a more dynamic contemporary oriental architectural style.
- Keywords
- community center, three-stage composition of classical architecture, spatial experience sense, detail scale
