West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran by Shanghai PTArchitects

West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran by Shanghai PTArchitects is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Emas in Reka Bentuk Seni Bina, Bangunan dan Struktur Competition Category.

EmasSeni Bina· 2022

West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran

by Shanghai PTArchitects

Client: Shanghai PTArchitects

A' Design Award Emas Winner in Seni Bina Category

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The Design

About West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran

West Suburban Elegance ialah sebuah pusat pameran di Bandar Sijing, Shanghai, China. Sijing mempunyai sejarah lebih daripada seribu tahun, dan reka bentuk ini mengikuti bentuk petempatan tempatan untuk mewujudkan urutan ruang yang kaya. Isipadu kecil yang bertaburan menggemakan tekstur kediaman di sekitarnya, manakala bumbung rata dan bumbung curam digabungkan untuk mempelbagaikan ketinggian siling. Koridor, laman dalaman, air, batu dan penanaman disusun dengan teknik taman tradisional serta bahasa seni bina moden. Bangunan ini merangkumi keluasan lantai 600 meter persegi di atas tapak seluas 3,300 meter persegi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Emas

West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran ialah pemenang A' Design Award Emas, pengiktirafan yang amat berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk kelas pertama, menakjubkan dan cemerlang. Pemenang Emas ialah ciptaan yang sangat inovatif, berwawasan dan berkilau memukau yang mencerminkan kegeniusan, kebijaksanaan dan kepakaran pereka bentuknya. West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran diharapkan menjadi ciptaan yang sangat dipuji, perintis aliran dan monumental yang memberikan nilai tanpa tandingan. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Emas ini ialah projek yang menakjubkan dan disegani yang memberi manfaat besar kepada dan memajukan batas seni, sains, reka bentuk dan teknologi. West Suburban Elegance Pusat Pameran mencetuskan perasaan keinginan yang kuat, membangkitkan semangat, menggalakkan kreativiti dan memukau kita.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is positioned at the root of Shanghai, Sijing Town, Sijing with a history of more than a thousand years. With a view to continue the local language and respect traditional Sijing culture, the design wholly adopts the settlement form to present rich space, leaving the surrounding environment and the building as a borrowed landscape from each other, meanwhile, with modern approaches to restore the traditional space, it gives visitors a modern garden space experience.
Tags: display center, modern garden space experience
Production Technology: The application of spatial streamline is based on the unique gardening techniques of Suzhou gardens, creating a rich space for enjoyment, play and living in a limited space. Moreover, the corridor, garden, courtyard, building, spring, stone, flowers, wood together has been combined by means of comparison, setoff, opposite scenery, borrowed landscape, scale changes, level coordination, small in the big, less prior to more, and other techniques and a harmonious living environment of man and nature has been created in the city.
Design Challenge: The project covers a land area of 3,300㎡ and a floor area of 600㎡. How to use the limited building volume to present a rich spatial feeling and visiting experience on the site is the breakthrough point of this design.
Designers hope to create as much great effective space as possible. Entering the display center through the Mountain Gate, the landscape shadow wall comes into view, then after a grille walkway, we can arrive at the reception area. The reception area and the sandbox area are connected by the water courtyard, which embodies four steps, opening, developing, changing and concluding, and plays an emphasis on the continuity and integrity of spatial design in the real and imaginary, light and dark, opening and closing, turning, gyrating, restraining and displaying, while the enclosed landscape movement line creates different scenery as the footsteps move. With the design of ancient trees and wells, flowing water and other different details, it evokes the memory of hometown and tells the story of oriental culture to people.
Research: In order to create a real-life scene for "what you see is what you obtain", the design takes the different needs of pre-display and post-use into full consideration, and finally has met the requirements of both functions, avoiding the waste of resources brought by the secondary transformation.
As for the choice of materials, sustainable vitrified materials instead of natural stone are also applied to the design.
Inspiration: Combined with site characteristics, the overall planning has created juxtaposition clustered space from large to small, thus making the scattered small volumes echo the surrounding residential texture. The ingenious combination of flat and sloped roofs not only creates rich space volume, but also reserves ample floor area and ceiling height.
Project Duration: The project started in Dec. 2018 and finished in Dec. 2020 in Shanghai, China.
Operation Flow: The design strategy include the following two parts. The first is to keep the original building base texture and massing. The second is that the building style is not a complete imitation of Classical Gardens of Suzhou style but a modern style which expresses the heritage elements with innovative architectural language. Simple sheet walls are adopted at the new entrance facade. Between the walls, concave slope top are used to prompt the renewal of the original roof, while maintaining the original roof trend of the main building.
Team Members: Ren Xiangyi, Hu Qiao, Guo Juntang, Fu Yuelin
Image Credits: Photo Credits:10 Studio, Qiao Yunfeng, Yuan Yang