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Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium by Zhang ZhaoYong

Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium by Zhang ZhaoYong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Architectura Competition Category.


ArgentumArchitectura· 2020

Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium

by Zhang ZhaoYong

Client: Zhuwei Space

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Architectura Category

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The Design

About Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium

Quadratum Sinicum est deversorium ad formam traditae domus atrii Sinici in Luoyang aedificatum. Opus 5460 metra quadrata complectitur et anno 2019 perfectum est. Murus lateritius cancellatus introitum designat, quem sequuntur capita in duodecim signa zodiaci Sinici formata. Muri lateritii ordinati ex laterculis griseis totis reciperatis facti sunt. Secundum atrium interius cubicula hospitum et instrumenta publica continet, per porticum flexuosam adeunda, et tertium atrium interius aulam receptionis complectitur. Spatia in strata disposita prospectum in atrium introducunt.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Chinese Quadrangle Deversorium creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
"Pieces of clay tiles connect the ancient with the modern, enhance the unsophisticated and good-neighborly affection. The old eaves were filled with happy laughter and cheerful voices. Although the courtyard is low and hardly comparable to the modern buildings, its warm and fresh earthy atmosphere can draw your hearts closer, dispel loneliness and make your dreams more visible." The Chinese quadrangle courtyard, as the crystallization of traditional wisdom and civilization, is also a dynamic architectural model worthy of our reference in today's increasingly common urban housing.
Dimensions & Packaging
The project area is 5460 square meters.
Tags
quadrangle, Chinese, traditional, courtyard, culture
Production Technology
In terms of the form of the courtyard, the designer endows the space with layers based on the traditional quadrangle courtyard, including the landscape of the sky and the ground, integrating the landscape into the courtyard and creating an overlap between the inside and the outside. The arrayed brick walls are made entirely of grey recycled bricks.
Design Challenge
As an architectural design culture passed down by Chinese architecture, Quadrangle has a profound cultural heritage and research value. The hardest part of the design process is to show its cultural value.
Research
This is a recently completed quadrangle project in Luoyang. Throughout the planning process, the Zhuwei team adheres to the principles of ingenuity, sincerity, meticulousness and reassurance, and deeply grasps the traditional Chinese culture, spatial scale and human settlement concept, and walks away from the psychedelic feelings of modern and ancient times. The owner was presented a beautiful picture.
Inspiration
"Although the folk custom and classical rules are antiquated, the classic can still go on in today's landscape." This is a line in the Chinese Quadrangle Courtyard by Qi Qin. This design is a Chinese quadrangle courtyard. Although this quadrangle courtyard looks inconspicuous from the outside, you will find a world all its own as you walk in, with every brick and tile emitting a strong and unsophisticated atmosphere of life. With a deep grasp of Chinese traditional culture, space scale and human settlement concept, the designer integrates modernity and tradition into a beautiful picture.
Project Duration
The project finished in 2019 in Luoyang.
Operation Flow
Entering the courtyard, the first thing is a brick screen wall, next to the heads in shape of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs. Further inside, the wide external corridor forms a broad perspective, and the landscape in the middle of the corridor blocks part of the vision, arousing for further exploration. The side rooms and wing rooms of the second inner courtyard are equipped with guest rooms and public facilities. After passing through the winding veranda comes the guest room, where the guest can enjoy the landscape and well relax. The third inner courtyard is the reception hall.
Team Members
Design Director: Zhang Zhaoyong
Designer: Zhan Shuaihong

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