Village Hall Hale Hana Nui No Ka Lehulehu by Youpei Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Hale, Kūkulu a me Hōʻuluʻulu Competition Category.
KalaHoʻolālā Hale· 2025
Village Hall Hale Hana Nui No Ka Lehulehu
by Youpei Hu
Client: Studio Hu
A' Design Award Kala Winner in Hoʻolālā Hale Category
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About Village Hall Hale Hana Nui No Ka Lehulehu
Ke 'alo mana'o 'ia nei ka hale i ke 'ano kūkulu kuʻuna, a ho'ohana i nā mea kūkulu hou a me ka hoʻomohala hou. Ho'okahi ka kaupoku lana nui i nā wahi kūpono a me nā wahi ma'alahi ma ke 'ano maʻalahi, e like me he māmalu nui wehe 'ia. I mea e loa'a ai ka 'ike lana a māmā, pono ka kaupoku kila nui e lanakila i nā kālai nui a me nā laulā, a pono ho'i e mālama i nā laʻa lāhilahi a hiki ke 'ano. Me nā ho'ohou kūkulu he nui, ua hana 'ia he hoʻomohala hui e like me nā kālai māmalu.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Kala
Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Village Hall Hale Hana Nui No Ka Lehulehu i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Village Hall Hale Hana Nui No Ka Lehulehu he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Village Hall Hale Hana Nui No Ka Lehulehu e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The building intentionally avoids the vernacular architectural style, and applies modern materials and structure. A big floating roof unifies the formal and informal spaces in a simple way, like a giant open umbrella.
In order to achieve the floating and light feeling, the big steel roof not only needs to overcome the large cantilevers and spans, but also needs to keep member as slender as possible. With several structural innovations, a hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers are formed. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The building area is 1370 square metres
- Tags
- Multi functional, rural social center, flexible space, cantilevered roof, structural innovation
- Production Technology
- Weathering steel plate
Steel
Concrete
A hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers - Design Challenge
- In order to realise the sense of floating of the big black roof, the building is structurally innovative. The roof, as an overall stress system, not only has to overcome the difficulties of large overhangs and spans, but also has to make each rod as slim as possible to maximise the sense of lightness and composition of the rod structure.
- Research
- Based on the Grasshopper plugin extension tool on the Rhino platform, Karamba3D force analysis and form finding technology were used to explore the tools and paths suitable for architects to carry out structural form design in the scheme stage, and successfully completed the structural form design of asymmetric complex roof shapes.
- Inspiration
- In traditional Chinese housing, the main hall called ‘Ting Tang’ is the most important family space for public activities. It usually has a formal architectural gesture, with tall, dark and semi open space.
Inspired by this, the village center is considered as the ‘main hall’ for the whole village. Besides a multifunction hall for formal public activities, the building also provides lots of open spaces to encourage social interaction between villagers and tourists. - Project Duration
- The project started in 2021 in China and finished in 2023 in China, and the project address is Xiangtang Village, Pukou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
- Operation Flow
- This is a public event centre building, capable of meeting the daily needs of meetings, exhibitions, receptions and other
meeting, exhibition, reception and other daily needs. - Team Members
- Youpei Hu;Lei Shen;Qi Wang;Shufan Wu;Yuanyuan Rui
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