Guilin Centre d'exposition by Tengyuan Design

Guilin Centre d'exposition by Tengyuan Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Or in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.

OrArchitecture· 2020

Guilin Centre d'exposition

by Tengyuan Design

Client: Tengyuan Design

A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Guilin Centre d'exposition

Guilin est un centre d'exposition culturel et touristique conçu comme un cube de verre minimaliste. Le bâtiment couvre 4 021 mètres carrés. Le mur-rideau en verre est constitué de raidisseurs de verre en porte-à-faux disposés verticalement selon deux densités et deux hauteurs. Ces raidisseurs dessinent en façade trois plans de silhouettes de collines, perçus comme des vues rapprochée, intermédiaire et lointaine. La superposition des effets de transmission, de réflexion et de réfraction entre les couches de verre varie au gré de la lumière. Une galerie de bambous accompagne le parcours principal à l'intérieur de l'espace d'exposition. Le projet transpose le paysage de Guilin en forme construite.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Or

Guilin Centre d'exposition est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or, une reconnaissance immensément prestigieuse décernée à des designs de premier ordre, merveilleux et remarquables. Les lauréats Or sont des créations extrêmement innovantes, visionnaires et d'un éclat glamour éblouissant, qui reflètent le génie, la sagesse et la maîtrise de leurs concepteurs. Guilin Centre d'exposition est censé être une invention très louée, avant-gardiste et monumentale, qui apporte une valeur sans précédent. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or est un projet spectaculaire et respecté qui sert grandement l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Guilin Centre d'exposition crée de vifs sentiments de désir, éveille la passion, encourage la créativité et nous fascine.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The building in the design draft remains a minimalist cube, and the only difference is that the curtain wall is processed in order to build a "landscape cube". The skillful use of artificial elements and abstract nature not only reveals the modernity of the showcased building, but also integrates the unique scenery of Guilin into the building.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 4021 square meters. The glass ribs rise and fall vertically, forming rolling hill shades on the building. Two set of glass ribs, different in density and vertical height, form three levels of hill shades on the building elevation, including the "close view", "medium view" and "distant view".
Tags: Architecture, Culture Center, Exhibition, Oriental Elements, Natural, Elegant, Bamboo,
Production Technology: On the front plaza, the reflection of the building in water makes the building more layered and expressive. The vertical glass ribs are arranged evenly and projected vertically onto the glass curtain wall. Due to different locations and angles, there appears a difference in the abundant overlapped transmissions, reflections and refractions among the glass layers, and a subtly changing dramatic effect can be produced under different illumination conditions.
Design Challenge: One of the innovations of the project is the single use of glass to present the spatial structure and poetic conception of the landscape in Guilin using different construction methods and surface processing methods.
Research: The building curtain wall must not only show a spatial structure composed of distant, medium and close views, but also keep nightscape animation effects consistent with one another to avoid the appearance of "ripstop effects" caused by a stick curtain wall in nightscape lighting. After many discussions and technical communications, we finally decided to build a glass curtain wall with cantilever glass ribs.
Inspiration: The landscape in Guilin is the best in the world. Thus, the project of Guilin Culture and Tourism Exhibition Center deservedly chooses to highlight the theme of landscape. For this project, we hope to design it based on the landscape, express in a certain shape and endow it with a meaning, and use a pure glass box to arouse people's inner feelings for nature and landscape.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2016 in Guilin and finished in September 2018 in Guilin.
Operation Flow: China has a longstanding tradition of bamboo culture, and Guilin also abounds in natural bamboo resources. We have designed a bamboo gallery on the main sightseeing route in the showroom to create an artistic conception of bamboo forest.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Tengyuan Design, 2018.
Team Members: Zhao Guangjun
Wang Zhenming
Wei Peng
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Kai Wang, Top View, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery 2, 2018.