Qun Wen · CLIENT: Aoe
Shard is a sales office in Chongqing, China, created through the renovation of an existing building. Deconstruction techniques were used to break the traditional enclosed layout and to form a flowing open space. The shapes of the design are inspired by natural mountains and rocks. The facade is composed of aluminum units shaped like paper cranes, which give the building the character of an artwork within the city. The building area is 3000 square meters. The aim is to support interaction between people, art and space.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This is not a traditional sales office, but a more inclusive and open way to interact with people. The different components of the building are seen as connecting and composing an integral structure, while at the same time exposing a horizon of disconnection paradoxically linking significant places to the city.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Building Area: 3000 sqm, Width 82300 mm x Depth 24600 mm x Height 23600 mm
- Tags
- Renovation, Deconstruction, Paper Crane, Sales Office, Mountains
- Production Technology
- Through the unit components of the aluminum thousand paper crane on the facade, it will create its own works of art in the city, and inject new vitality into the city.
- Design Challenge
- The project has its own mission and tonality according to the different natural environment, cultural atmosphere and project positioning. Compared with other architects' personal heroism, aoe affairs construction group pays more attention to the interaction between architecture and nature, architecture and society, architecture and people.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2019 and finished in March 2020 in Chongqing, China.
- Operation Flow
- On the north side is the planned land for education, on the south side is the primary school and Zhulin experimental school, on the west side is the residential area, and on the east side is adjacent to the light rail.
- Research
- This project is based on an existing building. The renovation, therefore, does not seek to dominate as a new form, but rather retreats to form a background of hope for the existing building containing the folk art collection. This building is treated as the familiar, yet solitary every-day figures, while the entire site is reorganized around the nexus of a new topography which connects the city back onto itself.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the trend of natural mountains and rocks and their shapes, the designer used deconstruction techniques to break through the traditional enclosure mode, created a flowing open space, explore a new way of life experience, and regard the building itself as a city's artwork to creat an interactive relationship between people, art and space.
- Image Credits
- Huang Ligang
- Patents
- N/A
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