The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia by Vipshop China Co., Ltd

The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia by Vipshop China Co., Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award in Barruko Espazioa eta Erakusketa Diseinua Competition Category.

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The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia

by Vipshop China Co., Ltd

Client: Vip.com

Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Barrualdea Category

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The Design

About The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia

Book Text: Satori Harbor Guangzhouko enpresa-egoitza baten barruan kokatutako liburutegia da. Liburutegia portu-hiri abstraktu gisa antolatuta dago, irakurleak liburuen artean noraezean ibil daitezkeen lekuan. Galeria batek herrialde askotatik bildutako margolanak erakusten ditu, hierarkiarik gabe kokatuta. Korridore baten amaieran dagoen leiho zirkular batek hiriaren ikuspegi txiki bat markoztatzen du. Itsasontzi-forma bat altzairuzko egiturarekin eraikita eta estukoz estalita dago. Inprimatutako oihalezko pantailek Guangzhouko portutik gertu dauden eraikin zaharren fatxadak erakusten dituzte. Hormak eta zoruak estukoz akaberatuta daude, eta mailakatze kurbatuek beix koloreko terrazoa erabiltzen dute.

The Recognition

About the Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award

The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, goi-mailako, zoragarriak eta liluragarriak diren diseinuei ematen zaien ezohiko aitorpen prestijiotsua. Zilar-mailako irabazleak lan oso distiratsuak eta sormen biziko lanak dira, beren diseinatzaileen aditutasun, talentu eta zorroztasun nabarmenak erakusten dituztenak. The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia erakusleiho-lan zoragarria, nabarmenki profesionala eta sakonki berritzailea izatea espero da. Zilarrezko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu hau asmakizun oso nabarmena eta miretsia da, onura ekartzen duena eta artearen, zientziaren, diseinuaren eta teknologiaren mugak zabaltzen dituena. The Satori Harbor Primary Function: Liburutegia jende askok inbidia duen sorkuntza da, desirak pizten dituena, sentimendu positiboak ekartzen dituena eta harridura eta txunditzea pizten dituena.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The 19th floor is a city within the city. The most important place is the gallery, a re-interpretation of the European art saloon. The gallery walls are covered with painting collected across world placed in a non-hierarchical fashion. At the end of the haowu corridor is a circular window, capturing a miniature corner of the city. Yu Ting seeks to create an obscure experience of space and time through the meandering experience through light and darkness.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole building is open office space. The library should be different from these, and then we want that differentiation to be tapped into. We want our guests to feel a little different from the moment they enter the tunnel.
Tags: Vipshop, Headquarter, Museum, The thirteen-hongs in Canton, Library, Tunnel, Port city, Haowu Port, Haowu Corridor
Production Technology: The whole space is basically covered with stucco, we used it on the wall and the floor, except for the curved steps which we chose a beige terrazzo to differentiate it from the floor below. The ceiling is painted with white.
The three circular openings on the left are windows to the rooms behind.
The rosette window is a page taken out of the history of Guangzhou, they were a big hit in the 18th century. With stucco and terrazzo, the space can have more possibilities to hold more activities.
Design Challenge: Structure, fire partition.
This is a new building, but the library has a larger load than the original, the load requirements have been increased.
The owner was persistent in introducing the elevation of the thirteen rows into the design. Finally we printed the elevation of the thirteen rows on the roller blinds, when needed the roller blinds slowly fall and the elevation of the thirteen rows will appear. It's hard to do regular site visits due to the pandemic.
Research: The owners repeatedly emphasized that Vipshop originated in Guangzhou's old 13 hongs, which was the only port during the closed time, open to the outside world at the time. In a way, Vipshop inherited the spirit of the old 13 hongs, they brought the good things from abroad back to China. Chinese cities and ports are separate and there is a distance between them. After a long discussion, we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
Inspiration: November 2020, Wutopia Lab completes the Satori Harbor, a culturally symbolic library situated in VIPshop's new headquarters. Yu Ting, the Founder & Chief Architect of Wutopia Lab, sees the library materializing the complex mechanism of the world-an abstract harbor city where the readers can wander through books and experience their moments of enlightenment and deliverance. Satori Harbor symbolizes a moral place for that of practice of life.
Project Duration: Started in September 2019;
Completed in October 2020;
Location: 18-19F, South Tower of Vipshop Headquarters Building, Zone A, Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Operation Flow: The boat is constructed with steel framing and coated with stucco, and the white screens are made of technical fabric and we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
The boat is a homage to the history of Guangzhou, back when the city was a harbor to host cultural and commercial exchanges between China and the western world, which is what VIP is about, a connecting point between customers and all the good valued merchandising from all around the world. A boat is also a symbol taken out of Taoism, to fearlessly ride the waves of life.
Team Members: Chief Architect: Yu Ting
Project Architect: Guo Yuchen, Yang Siqi, Zhan Beidi
Project Manager: Pu Shengrui
Design Consultant: Studio Yuda
Design Development: Dai Yunfeng, Wu Xiaoyan, Guo Jianv, Zhao Ruyi (Alignment Studio Shanghai)
MEP Consultant: Zhang Minmin, Shi Jianglong, Kuang Jing, Zhu Busen, Hu Lei
Lighting Consultant: Chloe Zhang
Structural Engineering: Yu Junfeng
Project Coordination: Li Sha, Liu Hui
Construction Manager: Luo Zhiyue
Image Credits: CreatAR Images