Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario by Easy Arch

Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario by Easy Arch is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ferro in Deseño de Arquitectura, Edificación e Estruturas Competition Category.

FerroArquitectura· 2022

Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario

by Easy Arch

Client: Easy Arch

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario

Texto do Libro: O Centro Comunitario Xinghua é un edificio público compartido situado nun histórico barrio de hutong en Pequín. A rehabilitación reúne múltiples usos nun só espazo, incluíndo oficinas, áreas de reunión, actividades artísticas e de fitness, zonas de descanso para os residentes de máis idade e ferramentas compartidas. Empregáronse materiais locais de baixo custo para os muros e chans, en consonancia coa cor e a textura do hutong. As altas fiestras exteriores foron substituídas por fiestras cadradas dentro das aberturas existentes, aforrando custos e enerxía. As fiestras baixas conectan o interior coa rúa e permiten que os nenos poidan ver a través delas. A superficie construída total é de 380 metros cadrados.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario gañou o A' Design Award de Ferro, un recoñecemento prestixioso outorgado a bos deseños que cumpren os requisitos profesionais e industriais esperados de creacións ben deseñadas. Os gañadores Ferro demostran a gran habilidade, a alta especialización, a comprensión experta e a capacidade creativa dos seus creadores. Espérase que Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario sexa unha creación moi apreciada, admirada e querida que é práctica e innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as mellores prácticas do sector e ten características técnicas competentes ligadas ao saber facer e ao talento. Xinghua Community Center Centro Comunitario é respectado pola súa minuciosidade e está deseñado para proporcionar melloras na calidade de vida que axudan a facer do mundo un lugar mellor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Unlike other single-functional buildings in hutongs, this building preserves the surrounding ecology while bringing vitality to the historic district (i.e., urban micro-renewal), with increasing interaction between the community and the residents. The design of interactive windows, instead of the traditional hutong's enclosed exterior walls, connects the exterior to the interior, allowing even children to easily see the interior through the low windows.
Dimensions & Packaging: Gross floor area: 380 m2
Roof terrace area: 220 m2
Tags: Urban Micro-Renewal, Community Service Center, Hutong Living Room, Community Neighborhood Complex, Shared Space, Openness, Resident Participation
Production Technology: The walls and floors of the project are made of Hutong low-cost environmentally materials, and the color and texture are in line with the characteristics of Hutong.
The exterior windows were all high windows, which were changed to square windows to increase interaction. The new windows in the horizontal direction are all within the scope of the exterior windows, without expanding the openings, saving costs and energy.
The house is surrounded by trees, and residents can enjoy the pool view.
Design Challenge: The project is located in the historic district, and there is a serious lack of public space within 500m of the project center; the building density is high, and the limited space requires more integrated supporting service buildings
2. Government subsidies for activities are very limited. How to obtain more activity resources and change the quality of life of surrounding residents? Improve the existing environment through design, and replace more resource services with flexible space
Research: The improvement of the quality of the area is the key to the transformation of the city. The preservation of the old city also includes the preservation of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the residents.
Community centers share resources with neighboring merchants to bring more benefits to residents and increase community vitality.
It injects new experiences into hutong life, generates a sense of close interaction, and becomes a scarce public space in the core of Beijing at present.
Inspiration: The project renovates a traditional community service center in hutong. Due to the lack of public space, residents need a larger living room and shared space.
The designer superimposed different functions (such as salon experience, office, negotiation meeting, art, fitness, rest for the elderly, shared tools, shared health equipment, reception for various affairs, etc.) into this space, leaving the space maximumly open to the residents and making the traditional community rejuvenated.
Project Duration: Design time: 2020.4-2020.7
Construction period: 2020.9-2021.1
Location: No. 8, Changqiao Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing
Operation Flow: The project is located in an important historical and cultural district of Beijing, with a limited area for multi-functional composite space utilization.
The merchants in the district plan various interesting experience activities for the community center for free, enriching the activities of the surrounding residents, and the merchants can increase their stickiness with the surrounding residents in the activities. There are also many famous handicraft masters gathered around the project, and the community center will regularly hold intangible cultural heritage salon experience activities.
Team Members: Easy Arch
Image Credits: Ruijing Photography