Mermaid Town Reception Hall 文化建築 by Yue Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
銀建築· 2020
Mermaid Town Reception Hall 文化建築
by Yue Xu
Client: Voa
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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The Design
About Mermaid Town Reception Hall 文化建築
「マーメイドタウン・レセプションホール」は、中国福建省周寧県に位置する文化施設である。延床面積12,000平方メートルの複合施設で、観光集散センターおよび文化活動センターとしての役割を担う。設計は、地域に伝わる土楼建築から着想を得て、方形と円形の形態を組み合わせている。円形の回廊が2棟の建物の境界を示すとともに、夏の強い日射や、雨の多い寒冷な冬から人々を守る。外壁は白い塗り仕上げと手作りの灰色レンガで仕上げられている。空間の軸線によって、各ホールは近隣の小川、湖、そして山へと結びつけられている。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Mermaid Town Reception Hall 文化建築は、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Mermaid Town Reception Hall 文化建築は、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Mermaid Town Reception Hall 文化建築は、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The site is surrounded by water in the north, dotted with hills. Designers adopted the gestalt geometry strategy as a positive means to deal with the contrast between artificial and natural, and achieved the Oriental aesthetic conception of round sky, square place, elegant and peaceful with the surrounding natural landscape, which is also the abstract expression of mermaid harmonious culture.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 12000 square meters. Under the background of the regeneration of urban and rural historical environment and the construction of Characteristic Towns in the ascendant, through the engineering practice of the reception hall of Zhouning Mermaid Town, the architects made a beneficial exploration on the direction of China's future small town construction.
- Tags
- Architectural Design, Oriental Elements, Tourism Distribution Center, Cultural Activity Center, Mermaid Culture, Global, Locality, Commemoration, Modern
- Production Technology
- The exterior walls of buildings are respectively painted with white texture paint and hand-made gray brick, which is a practical strategy to deal with the inevitable construction errors of China's rapid construction. In particular, the woven hemp rope background wall in the entrance hall of the small theater is the remedy taken by the designer to deal with the incredible budget errors.
- Design Challenge
- A circular corridor is set up at the boundary of the two buildings, which is not only the designers' response to the strong radiation in summer and rainy and cold climate in winter in Zhouning, but also a non-verbal expression of the path of fish sacrifice, a unique intangible cultural heritage of Carp Brook Ancient Village. Through the isomorphism of this ritual track, which has been accumulated for thousands of years, the architecture achieves a delicate balance between memorial and life.
- Research
- Carp Brook Ancient Village in Zhouning County, Fujian is a famous historical and cultural village that has lasted for more than one thousand years. It has built a beautiful scenery of Peach Garden where people and fish share happiness and live harmoniously, and everywhere embodies the unity of heaven and man pursued by Chinese traditional culture. This case is only one mountain away from Carp Brook Ancient Village, which is the distribution hub of the future scenic area open to visitors.
- Inspiration
- The purpose of this project is to interpret the tradition with the modern, change the life with the architecture, and revitalize the countryside with the design. In the northeast of Fujian Province near Zhouning, there are such unique architectural types as "earth fort", which is the combination of square and circle, and simple in volume. It provides inspiration for designers to build a "round sky and place" in the local context.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2017 in Ningde and finished in September 2019 in Ningde.
- Operation Flow
- The designers built a group of spatial axes connecting the turning points between the geometric centers of the two buildings. One side is adjacent to the Carp Brook in the center of the historical village, one side leads to the Longteng Lake in the center of the new town, and the other side is facing the highest Xianfeng Mountain in Zhouning. The building is firmly anchored in the context of the city, quietly telling Zhouning's past, present and future.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Yue Xu, 2019.
- Team Members
- Yue Xu
Lvting Qu
Xiaoyun Qi
Chencheng Li
Qizun Cai
Feng Zhou - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
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