Village Hall Whare Tūmatanui Maha-tikanga by Youpei Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Waihanga, Whare me te Hanganga Competition Category.
HiriwaWaihanga· 2025
Village Hall Whare Tūmatanui Maha-tikanga
by Youpei Hu
Client: Studio Hu
A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Waihanga Category
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The Design
About Village Hall Whare Tūmatanui Maha-tikanga
E tohua ana te whare kia karo i te āhua waihanga ā-rohe, ā, ka whakamahi i ngā rauemi me te hanga ōnaianei. Ko te tuanui nui rewa e whakakotahi ana i ngā wāhi taketake me ngā wāhi māmā i roto i te tikanga ngāwari, he pērā i tētahi whāruru nunui tuwhera. Kia tutuki te āhua rewa me te māmā, me whai te tuanui rino nunui kia wikitōria i ngā kūrae rewa me ngā whitinga whānui, me pupuri hoki i ngā wāhanga kia tūmeke rawa i tāna taea. Mā ētahi auaha hanga, ka hangaia he hanga whakaranu e whakatauira ana i ngā kūrae whāruru.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Hiriwa
Ko Village Hall Whare Tūmatanui Maha-tikanga te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Village Hall Whare Tūmatanui Maha-tikanga he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Village Hall Whare Tūmatanui Maha-tikanga he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The building intentionally avoids the vernacular architectural style, and applies modern materials and structure. A big floating roof unifies the formal and informal spaces in a simple way, like a giant open umbrella.
In order to achieve the floating and light feeling, the big steel roof not only needs to overcome the large cantilevers and spans, but also needs to keep member as slender as possible. With several structural innovations, a hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers are formed. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The building area is 1370 square metres
- Tags
- Multi functional, rural social center, flexible space, cantilevered roof, structural innovation
- Production Technology
- Weathering steel plate
Steel
Concrete
A hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers - Design Challenge
- In order to realise the sense of floating of the big black roof, the building is structurally innovative. The roof, as an overall stress system, not only has to overcome the difficulties of large overhangs and spans, but also has to make each rod as slim as possible to maximise the sense of lightness and composition of the rod structure.
- Research
- Based on the Grasshopper plugin extension tool on the Rhino platform, Karamba3D force analysis and form finding technology were used to explore the tools and paths suitable for architects to carry out structural form design in the scheme stage, and successfully completed the structural form design of asymmetric complex roof shapes.
- Inspiration
- In traditional Chinese housing, the main hall called ‘Ting Tang’ is the most important family space for public activities. It usually has a formal architectural gesture, with tall, dark and semi open space.
Inspired by this, the village center is considered as the ‘main hall’ for the whole village. Besides a multifunction hall for formal public activities, the building also provides lots of open spaces to encourage social interaction between villagers and tourists. - Project Duration
- The project started in 2021 in China and finished in 2023 in China, and the project address is Xiangtang Village, Pukou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
- Operation Flow
- This is a public event centre building, capable of meeting the daily needs of meetings, exhibitions, receptions and other
meeting, exhibition, reception and other daily needs. - Team Members
- Youpei Hu;Lei Shen;Qi Wang;Shufan Wu;Yuanyuan Rui
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