Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris by Likun Shen

Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris by Likun Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Architectura Competition Category.

AesArchitectura· 2023

Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris

by Likun Shen

Client: Gad

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Architectura Category

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The Design

About Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris

Textus Libri: Tianqingli Domicilium est agmen habitationum in ripa septentrionali fluminis Shangtang in Hangzhou, Sinis, situm. Consilium architecturam stilo Song per simplicem linguam modernam adhibet, formis traditis legibilibus servatis. Triginta duae familiae in area 17900 quadratorum metrorum disponuntur. Multa atria et semitae domos cum collibus et aquis circumiacentibus coniungunt, apertionem cum secreto aequantes. Systema parietis cortinalis, ex aluminio mixto et ligno compositum, speciem traditam sustinet, dum sumptus et tempus aedificationis moderatur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Tianqingli Residential Munus Primarium: Complexus Domiciliaris necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

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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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