Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial by Likun Shen

Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial by Likun Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño de Arquitectura, Edificación e Estruturas Competition Category.

BronceArquitectura· 2023

Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial

by Likun Shen

Client: Gad

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial

Tianqingli Residential é un conxunto habitacional situado na beira norte do río Shangtang, en Hangzhou, China. O deseño aplica a arquitectura de estilo Song a través dunha linguaxe moderna e sinxela, mantendo lexibles as formas tradicionais. Trinta e dous fogares distribúense nun terreo de 17900 metros cadrados. Múltiples patios e pasaxes conectan as vivendas coas colinas e as augas circundantes, equilibrando a apertura coa privacidade. Un sistema de muro cortina que combina aliaxe de aluminio e madeira sostén a aparencia tradicional ao tempo que controla o custo e o tempo de construción.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial 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 Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial 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. Tianqingli Residential Complexo Residencial satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is located at the north side of Shangtang River, a canal tributary of Hangzhou, as the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Relying on the landscape of hills in the east, the project aims at becoming the first Song-style residential cluster with Chinese traditional gardens in China, and tries to explore the possibility of the revival of oriental classical culture from the perspective of the contemporary and sustainable development of traditional architecture.
Dimensions & Packaging: The total site area is 17900 sqm, the total building area is 8500 sqm, and 32 households are involved.
Tags: Song-Style Residential, Oriental Tradition, Settlement, Chinese Traditional Garden
Production Technology: Song-style is the most exquisite but not complicated architectural form in Chinese architecture history. The project reduces complexity to simplicity by using modern architectural language while maintaining the readability of architectural symbols, applies the technology of Chinese traditional style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wood structure, which obtains the Chinese Utility Patent, making the contemporary practice of Chinese traditional style buildings more sustainable.
Design Challenge: Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project creates a new living experience responds to the local climate and traditional living habits based on the characteristics of traditional residential settlements, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience.
Research: Since the Song Dynasty, JIE-DRAWING (to draw with a ruler and to obtain the clear boundary) had become a technique of Chinese painting. Compared with other kinds of painting, it requires to accurately and carefully reproduce the painted objects. Therefore, JIE-DRAWING has scientifically recorded the ancient buildings, urban features and living scenes of Song dynasty. Therefore, it is an important way to obtain the basis of design from the Song calligraphy and Song paintings.
Inspiration: This project creates the spatial pattern of multi-sided landscape and multiple courtyards, forming a direct dialogue between architecture and nature. The courtyard presents a natural openness while giving consideration to privacy. The project classifies the courtyards with the traditional Chinese garden landscape borrowing approach, thus the sequence between the private and public courtyards is more variable, which is closer to be in line with the contemporary aesthetic needs.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2018 and finished in October 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Operation Flow: This project combines the traditional residential form and the contemporary construction technology. From the perspective of cost and natural resources, the use of traditional Chinese style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wooden structure can perfectly present the beautiful form of traditional buildings, ensures the performance of construction, reasonable cost and construction cycle, it can be widely used in the contemporary practice of traditional Chinese style buildings.
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