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Seal Arkistorakennus by Peng Xiao

Seal Arkistorakennus by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award in Arkkitehtuuri-, rakennus- ja rakennesuunnittelu Competition Category.


PronssiArkkitehtuuri· 2022

Seal Arkistorakennus

by Peng Xiao

Client: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Arkkitehtuuri Category

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The Design

About Seal Arkistorakennus

Seal on arkistorakennus, joka sijaitsee Wuhanissa, Hubein maakunnassa Kiinassa. Rakennuksen kokonaiskerrosala on 57 487 neliömetriä ja korkeus 66 metriä. Muoto yhdistää tornin ja jalustaosan, mikä vapauttaa yhteiskäyttöistä tilaa alemmista kerroksista ja sijoittaa arkistovarastot ylempiin kerroksiin. Yleisölle ja henkilökunnalle tarkoitetut kulkureitit on eriytetty toisistaan. Julkisivu on saanut inspiraationsa kiinalaisesta sinetistä, ja se esittää aikajanan kaupungin historiallisista tapahtumista. Rakennuksessa on hyödynnetty paikallisia materiaaleja ja vähähiilisiä teknologioita. Monikäyttöinen sali ja suuri kokoustila ovat avoinna yleisölle.

The Recognition

About the Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award

Seal Arkistorakennus on Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, erittäin arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään erinomaisille designeille, joita luonnehtivat luovuus, nerokkuus ja oveluus. Pronssivoittajat ovat runsaan taitavia ja silmiinpistävän luovia taiteellisia tuotoksia, jotka todistavat suunnittelijoidensa laajaa kokemusta, mielikuvitusta ja kekseliäisyyttä. Seal Arkistorakennus:n odotetaan olevan korkeassa arvossa pidetty, ihailtu ja rakastettu esine, joka on huomattavan ammattimainen ja innovatiivinen. Tämä Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign sisällyttää itseensä parhaita käytäntöjä taiteessa, tieteessä, designissa ja teknologiassa ja on erinomainen huomiollaan yksityiskohtiin. Seal Arkistorakennus tyydyttää upeasti tarpeita, koskettaa haluja, viehättää tunteita ja vetoaa uteliaisuuteen.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.
Dimensions & Packaging
Total Land Area: 13291 square meters
Gross Floor Area: 57487 square meters
Height:66 meters
Tags
culture sharing space ecologic
Production Technology
City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city.
Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.
Design Challenge
Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.
Research
Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.
Inspiration
Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern.
Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates.
Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.
Project Duration
The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Operation Flow
The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.
Team Members
Director:
Xiao peng, Zhang songmin
Team members:
Li li, Liu fengqi, Li hongsheng, Shu xiaoling, Ge xiang, Li dongmei, Peng yiqi, Ye xin, Chen junyu, Wu jiangtao, Zhen mengdi, Zhang di, Xiong xiaoping

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