Slab Hill Lífsstílsmiðstöð by Greentown China Holdings Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award í gulli in Arkitektúr, bygginga- og mannvirkjahönnun Competition Category.
GullArkitektúr· 2022
Slab Hill Lífsstílsmiðstöð
by Greentown China Holdings Limited
Client: Greentown China Holdings Limited
A' Design Award í gulli Winner in Arkitektúr Category
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About Slab Hill Lífsstílsmiðstöð
Slab Hill er lífsstílsmiðstöð byggð í Changsha í Kína. Byggingin nær yfir 2071 fermetra og er mynduð úr 45 regnhlífarlaga burðareiningum. Þrjár einingastærðir, byggðar á þriggja metra einingakerfi, eru sameinaðar í grunnmynd sem getur stækkað. Nær allir innveggir hafa verið fjarlægðir, þannig að rýmin milli regnhlífarsúlnanna haldast opin og flæðandi. Regnhlífarfletirnir eru klæddir glertrefjastyrktri steinsteypu með láréttri, þrepaskiptri áferð í jarðlitum. Markmiðið er að koma fyrir litlum manngerðum hól í hversdagslegu úthverfalandslagi.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award í gulli
Slab Hill Lífsstílsmiðstöð vann A' Design Award í gulli, óendanlega virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er fyrsta flokks, dásamlegum og framúrskarandi hönnunarverkum. Sigurvegarar í gulli eru afar nýstárleg, framsýn og töfrandi glæsileg sköpunarverk sem endurspegla snilld, visku og hæfni hönnuða sinna. Þess er vænst að Slab Hill Lífsstílsmiðstöð sé mjög lofuð, brautryðjandi og stórfengleg uppfinning sem skilar fordæmislausu virði. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í gulli er stórbrotið, virt verkefni sem gagnast mörkum listar, vísinda, hönnunar og tækni mjög vel og færir þau fram á við. Slab Hill Lífsstílsmiðstöð skapar sterkar þráartilfinningar, vekur ástríðu, hvetur til sköpunar og heillar okkur.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The designers restored a certain "self-explanatory" of the basic unit through architectural forms and structural expressions, and to realize artificially reconstructed non-daily experience of the landscape through the organizational growth of this unit, the complex implantation of multi-functions, and the superimposed penetration of landscape and greenery.
It dispels almost all of the interior walls and the plans between the umbrella columns create a highly free, flowing spatial reorganization. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Area: 2071 sqm
The glass curtain wall is basically supported by T-beams as the keel and all interior partitions are clad in mirror stainless steel. The continuous, vanishing interior interface weakens the presence of the rods while emphasizing the extended display of the glass surface. The glass curtain wall intersecting with the umbrella conceals the frames and components within the joint recesses of the GRC curtain wall, ensuring structural integrity and purity as far as possible. - Tags
- Greentowm, Umbrella-shaped Building, Sales Center, Lifestyle Lab, gad/line+
- Production Technology
- The GRC material texture of the umbrella units is interpretive of the structure and we have chosen earthy colors that are close to nature. In order to find the most suitable GRC texture density, we went through several stages of computer simulation, 3D printing and physical prototyping to precisely control the horizontal texture, thus achieving a cascading texture.
- Design Challenge
- The site is surrounded by two main urban roads in the east and north, a planned high-density neighborhood in the south, and an urban river spreading out from the Songya Lake wetland basin on the west, where artificial and natural fragmentation intertwine during rapid urbanization. Faced with the lack of context of the site, we intend to stimulate this everyday suburban landscape by inserting a small heterogeneous "hill"-the "Slab Hill".
- Research
- After identifying the structural prototype as the basic cell unit, we formed three kinds of structural units of 6x6m, 6x12m and 9x18m using 3m as the basic module. The design further revolves around the need for spatial capacity, with the 45 umbrella structures meeting the seismic requirements with a uniform canopy edge distance of 2m and a limited number of connections, which are then combined in the same series of modules to form a homogeneous "growabl"eplane.
- Inspiration
- In order to build a deep foundation of dialogue with nature in the everyday urban site, we envisage a new architectural prototype based on the fractal geometry of nature-the smallest structural unit in the construction process as the basic spatial unit, which, with a certain"self-similarity", thus building up the architectural form-this evolution of the building from unit to whole is similar to the natural growth of a living creature in response to the laws of nature.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2021 in Changsha, Hunan Province, China and finished in August 2021 in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
- Operation Flow
- As the name suggests, the "Slab Hill" is an artificial hill based on an umbrella-shaped structural unit. The umbrella-shaped structure was chosen as a structural prototype because of its clear and simple "column-slab" structural support system and the sense of domain created by the large spatial coverage, and because umbrella shapes are common in the plant world-from small umbrella-shaped mushrooms to trees like Dracaena draco-which highlights the bionic traits.
- Team Members
- Clients:Greentown China Holdings Limited, Midea Real Estate Holding Limited
Design Firm: line+, gad
Chief Architect/Project Leader: Zhu Peidong
Design Team: Sun Xiaoyu, Yang Xiaoyu, Sun Jin - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #2: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #3: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #4: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #5: Photographer MZ STUDIOS
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