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Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet by Xiaoxia Wang - gad

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet by Xiaoxia Wang - gad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Premju A' Design Award tal-Platinu in Disinn tal-Arkitettura, Bini u Strutturi Competition Category.


PlatinuArkitettura· 2022

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet

by Xiaoxia Wang - gad

Client: Gad

Premju A' Design Award tal-Platinu Winner in Arkitettura Category

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The Design

About Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet

Ix-Xi'an Qujiang Art Center huwa sala tal-wirjiet li tinsab fid-Distrett il-Ġdid ta' Qujiang, Xi'an, iċ-Ċina. Il-bini jidher qisu qed jgħum fuq għolja ħadra u jifforma marka viżiva ċara maġenb it-triq urbana. Ħitan purtiera tal-ħġieġ sħiħ b'saff doppju jċajpru l-konfini bejn l-intern u l-parks tal-madwar. Struttura ta' sospensjoni ġġorr it-tliet livelli tal-wirjiet, u l-kolonni sospiżi huma mnaqqsa għal dijametru ta' 200 mm, b'tali mod li l-ispazju huwa kważi ħieles mill-kolonni. Mogħdija ġentili minn ġol-medda ħadra urbana twassal lill-viżitaturi lejn is-sit.

The Recognition

About the Premju A' Design Award tal-Platinu

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet huwa rebbieħ tal-Premju A' Design Award tal-Platinu, rikonoxximent prestiġjuż ħafna mogħti lil disinji tassew eċċezzjonali, eleganti u manjifiċi. Ir-rebbieħa tal-Platinu huma mirakli tal-ħolqien, xhieda tal-limiti tal-kreattività intellettwali, u juru l-professjonalità u l-ġenju bla paragun tad-disinjaturi tagħhom. Huwa mistenni li dawn id-disinji jkunu l-aktar xogħlijiet magħrufa li jiddefinixxu l-estetika ta' epoka, jikkontribwixxu għall-benessri tas-soċjetà u jwessgħu l-fruntieri tal-arti, ix-xjenza, id-disinn u t-teknoloġija. Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet juri livell ta' eċċellenza trasċendenti u jagħmel id-dinja post aħjar bil-karatteristiċi siewja tiegħu. Xi'an Qujiang Art Center Sala tal-Wirjiet huwa xogħol li rebaħ il-Premju A' Design Award tal-Platinu li jqajjem ix-xewqat, jispira, ifarraħ u joħloq ferħ kbir.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The project is located in Yanta District, Xi’an, with a mature surrounding traffic system including elevated roads, subways and highways, which makes it quite convenient and able to reach the main city within an hour. Being close to Qujiang Pool and Tang Paradise, the site is surrounded by multiple urban parks and boasts rich green land resources.
Dimensions & Packaging
The cellular stone breaks the area limit of natural stone with a size of 1.2m wide x 2.2m high. It also can be used on the dropping ceiling which ensures the integrity of the entry space and renders a unusual drop-off experience.
Cellular aluminum sheet’s lightness, high intensity and high flatness guarantee the flatness of the large aluminum curtain wall. Meanwhile the reflections of the surroundings further strengthens the sense of floating.
Tags
Floating Horizon, Suspension Structure
Production Technology
Cellular aluminum sheet's lightness, high intensity and high flatness guarantee the flatness of the large aluminum curtain wall. Meanwhile the reflections of the surroundings further strengthens the sense of floating.
Design Challenge
The exhibition hall space is divided into three layers. The whole structure is a suspension structure. Under the suspension structure, the stress mode of the column is changed from bearing pressure to bearing tension, and the performance of the steel is brought into play. The diameter of the suspension column is reduced to 200 mm to achieve the " almost no column" effect in the indoor space. Hence the freedom of the exhibition space can be fully released, and the sight line can be connected with the outside almost unobstructed, blurring the inner and outer boundaries.
Research
The process of arriving at the site is not a straightforward one, but a process of falling, turning, surprise and suddenly opening up, which seems to coincide with human's emotional experience. The whole building is anchored on the site. The site and the building are integrated with the bottom hidden in the green slope.
Inspiration
How to deal with the relationship between the architecture and the site becomes the starting point of the initial design. The designer further contemplates the space core by contemplating on the relationship between architecture and nature, the way of interaction and the boundless sense of experience. Double-layer full glass curtain walls allow the building to interact with the nature in the form of fuzzy boundary.
Project Duration
The project started in 2018 in Rongchuang Qujiangyin, Qujiang New District, Xi'an, China and finished in 2019.
Operation Flow
Facing the height difference between the site and the 10 meter green belt of the road, how shall people reach the site? The landscape design gives a poetic answer. The gentle slope of the urban green belt is built into a silk belt trail, leading the walk in. The walk experience becomes a way of dialogue with the site, and also a more close interaction between the site and the city.

The landscape design and space streamline of the drop-off area overlap with each other. The designer is not eager to let people arrive at the exhibition hall, but allows them to go straight through the landscape garden on the first floor. Walking through the landscape area and after taking the 88 second straight ladder, people will see the floating exhibition hall with four transparent walls at the end of the stairs. When looking back from the exhibition hall, the landscape on the roof of the podium and the botanical garden on the east side of the site form a continuous dialogue relationship. The landscape and architectural sequence constitute the designer's narrative of the space, which naturally triggers the emotion and experience at that moment.
Team Members
Project Director: Xiaoxia Wang
Project Creative: Xiaoxia Wang
Shouqing Wu
Other Team Members: Yuanyuan Fu
Zhehua Ni
Structure: Xiangming Qi
Qi Zhu
Xiaodong Shen
Water Supply and Drainage: Ting Hu
HVAC: Mingxing Ji
Electrical: Tao Jiang
Interior: CCD
Landscape: T.R.O.P
Structure technique: suspension structure
Building materials: glass curtain wall
honeycomb stone
anodized aluminum plate
Photographer: Shiromio Studio
CCD
Shouqing Wu
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Main Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #2: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #3: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #4: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #5: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.

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