Seal Bangunan Arkib by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Gangsa in Reka Bentuk Seni Bina, Bangunan dan Struktur Competition Category.

GangsaSeni Bina· 2022

Seal Bangunan Arkib

by Peng Xiao

Client: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Seni Bina Category

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The Design

About Seal Bangunan Arkib

Seal ialah sebuah bangunan arkib yang terletak di Wuhan, Hubei, China. Bangunan ini mempunyai keluasan lantai kasar seluas 57,487 meter persegi dan ketinggian 66 meter. Bentuknya menggabungkan menara dan podium, yang membebaskan ruang kongsi di tingkat bawah dan meletakkan storan arkib di tingkat atas. Laluan pergerakan awam dan profesional diasingkan. Fasad bangunan mendapat inspirasi daripada cap mohor China dan memaparkan garis masa peristiwa bersejarah di bandar tersebut. Bahan tempatan dan teknologi rendah karbon turut diaplikasikan. Sebuah dewan pelbagai guna dan bilik mesyuarat besar dibuka kepada orang ramai.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

Seal Bangunan Arkib ialah pemenang A' Design Award Gangsa, pengiktirafan yang amat berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk cemerlang yang dicirikan oleh kreativiti, kecerdikan dan ketajaman fikiran. Pemenang Gangsa ialah artifak yang amat mahir dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imaginasi dan akal budi pereka bentuknya. Seal Bangunan Arkib diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi dan disayangi, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Gangsa ini merangkumi amalan terbaik dalam seni, sains, reka bentuk dan teknologi, dan cemerlang dalam perhatiannya terhadap butiran. Seal Bangunan Arkib memenuhi keperluan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.
Dimensions & Packaging: Total Land Area: 13291 square meters
Gross Floor Area: 57487 square meters
Height：66 meters
Tags: culture sharing space ecologic
Production Technology: City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city.
Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.
Design Challenge: Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.
Research: Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.
Inspiration: Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern.
Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates.
Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.
Project Duration: The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Operation Flow: The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.
Team Members: Director:
Xiao peng, Zhang songmin
Team members:
Li li, Liu fengqi, Li hongsheng, Shu xiaoling, Ge xiang, Li dongmei, Peng yiqi, Ye xin, Chen junyu, Wu jiangtao, Zhen mengdi, Zhang di, Xiong xiaoping