City Above the Clouds Whare Tari Whakamahi-Rau by Gad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Koura in Hoahoa Waihanga, Whare me te Hanganga Competition Category.
KouraWaihanga· 2022
City Above the Clouds Whare Tari Whakamahi-Rau
by Gad
Client: Hangzhou Xihu Investment&Greentown Real Estate CO.,Ltd
A' Design Award Koura Winner in Waihanga Category
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The Design
About City Above the Clouds Whare Tari Whakamahi-Rau
Ko City Above the Clouds he whare tari whakamahi-rau me te wāhi hokohoko kei Hangzhou. E whā ngā whare matua e whakapūtia ana ki runga i ngā tūāpapa hokohoko porowhita e rua ngā papa, ā, mā tēnei whakatakotoranga ka hangaia he papa rēhia kākāriki i waenganui. Kei te papa whenua ētahi tomokanga maha e hono ana i te whare nui ki te tāone huri noa. Mā ngā pakitara ārai karaihe ka āhua marino, ka āhua tuwhera hoki ngā mata o waho. Mā tētahi pūnaha whakakākāriki poutū e hono ai ngā wāhi tiritahi kei ngā papa rerekē. Mā te whakakotahitanga o ngā wāhi mahi, ngā toa me ngā wāhi whakawhanaunga e tautoko ai tētahi ara mahi, ara noho taurite hoki.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Koura
Ko City Above the Clouds Whare Tari Whakamahi-Rau te toa o te A' Design Award Koura, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke tuatahi, whakamīharo me te hiranga. Ko ngā toa Koura he mahi tino auaha, he tirohanga mamao, he kanapa ahi, e whakaatu ana i te pūmanawa, te mātauranga me te tohungatanga o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko City Above the Clouds Whare Tari Whakamahi-Rau he hanganga tūnga e whakatū ana i ngā ia, he whakanuia rawa, e kawe mai ana i te uara kāore anō kia kitea. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Koura he kaupapa whakamīharo, whakahonoretia e whakawhānui ana i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ka whakaara a City Above the Clouds Whare Tari Whakamahi-Rau i te hiahia nui, ka whakaoho i te kaingākau, ka whakatenatena i te auaha, ā, ka whakamīharo i a tātou.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The project is located in Hangzhou. It adopts the conceptual planning system with the theme of City Above The Clouds. Four main buildings are stacked on double-storey circular commercial podium buildings respectively to form a central green park. The commercial space on the first floor has multiple entrances connected to the city, creating a vibrant, three-dimensional and open ideal city.
The architects integrated the natural environment, hence creating the ideal town for the future. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The scale of buildings is human-based. People’ s movements and feelings in the architectural space are taken into consideration. The design includes different scales of space from large, medium to small. There are public, open and shared spaces, such as the courtyard formed by 60-meter-high buildings, some 6x6m platforms for communication and exchange; there are also customized apartments to provide individual and private spaces for different groups of people.
- Tags
- Future, Life, Scene, Share, Social
- Production Technology
- This design is highly practical, to which an indispensable part is the technical support and selection of materials. The glass used for the building facade is a result of careful comparison and screening for over a year with the developer’ s kind support. With curtain wall, large area of glass looks sophisticated, bringing an overall humble feeling to the buildings, further integrating them into the city.
- Design Challenge
- One of the biggest challenges of the project, on one hand, is that many life scenes and functions, especially social sharing spaces, can not be all placed in the horizontal plane due to site limitations. To solve this problem, the architects used a vertical greening system to connect multiple scenes and functions. On the other hand, it is also challenging to bring natural sunlight to the 60-meter-high atrium. The architects worked closely with the structure engineers and curtain wall designers to deliberate on the structure and curtain wall components. Finally the size and density of components are able to be reasonably controlled on the basis that the structure is feasible, so that higher level of comfort and permeability in the atrium is achieved. The public corridors at bottom of buildings, ranging from 9 to 15 meters wide, are not disturbed by columns to allow for unobstructed view as a result of frequent consultations with structure engineers.
- Research
- Through information collection, field research and on-site interviews in the early stage of design, we found the project is close to Zhangzhou-Changzhou Expressway so that it plays an important role in displaying the city image. The surroundings of the site are mainly industrial parks from 1990s and there’ s no large- scale and intensive green space. Building functions are also unitary and fragmented. Unfortunately, with the advancements of Internet, young people prefer online connections to real communications in actual life scenes and spend remarkably less time in the nature. Overall, it’ s a pretty closed environment in lack of urban vitality.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by key words such as ideal city and future community, the architects created a futurist architectural form that focuses on openness, cooperation and sharing. The thoughts of architects is balance life and work. Attract the youth from online to offline to communicate with others and embrace nature, and provide a community living space. From the combination of office and commercial businesses to the sharing of production resources, creating a new way of working and living is what we need.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 8 October 2017 in HangZhou, ZheJiang, and finished in 20 December 2020
- Operation Flow
- The architects initially aimed to create a futuristic form of architecture and at the same time to meet people’ s daily work and life needs, and therefore adopted a new approach of combination of buildings. Basically the buildings conform to the site property line and surround the courtyard inside. The main opening is at the southwest corner to face the city, and some smaller openings at other corners are where the complex breathes. Furthermore, compound function of offices and commercials creates various spaces, while life scenes of young people are implanted in consideration of sharing production resources, which results in a community type of living place, just like a magnetic field, that draws people together to communicate and exchange, and guides people toward a brand new way of work and life.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to gad, 2021.
- Team Members
- Project Director: Zhang Wei
Lead Designer:He Zhen
Architects:Wu Xiaodong, Zheng Weijian - Image Credits
- Main Image:Photographer©YAOLI STUDIO 2021(Southwest corner perspective view)
Image # 1:Photographer©YAOLI STUDIO 2021(Perspective view along XiYuan Seven Road)
Image # 2:Photographer©YAOLI STUDIO 2021(Aerial view)
Image # 3:Photographer©YAOLI STUDIO 2021(Courtyard perspective view)
Image # 4: Photographer©YAOLI STUDIO 2021(Courtyard elevation view)
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