Bronce Arquitectura · 2022

Seal Edificio de Arquivo

by Peng Xiao

A' Design Award de Bronce 2022 in Arquitectura
CLIENT: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.
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About Seal Edificio de Arquivo

Seal é un edificio de arquivo situado en Wuhan, Hubei, China. O edificio ten unha superficie total construída de 57.487 metros cadrados e unha altura de 66 metros. A forma combina unha torre e un podio, o que libera espazo compartido nos andares inferiores e sitúa o almacenamento do arquivo nos andares superiores. As rutas de circulación pública e profesional están separadas. A fachada inspírase no selo chinés e presenta liñas temporais de acontecementos históricos da cidade. Aplícanse materiais locais e tecnoloxías de baixo carbono. Un salón multiusos e unha gran sala de reunións están abertos ao público.

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

Seal Edificio de Arquivo gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Seal Edificio de Arquivo sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Seal Edificio de Arquivo satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

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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.