Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex by Likun Shen

Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex by Likun Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Brons in Architectuur, Gebouwen en Constructieontwerp Competition Category.

BronsArchitectuur· 2023

Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex

by Likun Shen

Client: Gad

A' Design Award in Brons Winner in Architectuur Category

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The Design

About Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex

Tianqingli Residential is een wooncomplex gelegen aan de noordzijde van de Shangtang-rivier in Hangzhou, China. Het ontwerp past Song-stijl architectuur toe via een eenvoudige, moderne vormentaal, waardoor traditionele vormen herkenbaar blijven. Tweeëndertig woningen zijn gerangschikt op een terrein van 17.900 vierkante meter. Meerdere binnenplaatsen en stegen verbinden de woningen met de omliggende heuvels en waterpartijen, waardoor een evenwicht ontstaat tussen openheid en privacy. Een gevelsysteem dat aluminiumlegering combineert met hout ondersteunt het traditionele uiterlijk, terwijl de kosten en bouwtijd beheersbaar blijven.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Brons

Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Brons, een hoogst prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan uitstekende ontwerpen die zich onderscheiden door creativiteit, vindingrijkheid en scherpzinnigheid. Winnaars in Brons zijn ruimschoots vaardige en opvallend creatieve artefacten die de grote ervaring, verbeelding en het vernuft van hun ontwerpers bevestigen. Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex wordt verwacht een hooggewaardeerd, bewonderd en gekoesterd object te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Brons heeft gewonnen, verwerkt de beste praktijken in kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie en is uitstekend door zijn aandacht voor detail. Tianqingli Residential Woonkomplex bevredigt schitterend behoeften, raakt verlangens, charmeert gevoelens en spreekt de nieuwsgierigheid aan.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is located at the north side of Shangtang River, a canal tributary of Hangzhou, as the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Relying on the landscape of hills in the east, the project aims at becoming the first Song-style residential cluster with Chinese traditional gardens in China, and tries to explore the possibility of the revival of oriental classical culture from the perspective of the contemporary and sustainable development of traditional architecture.
Dimensions & Packaging: The total site area is 17900 sqm, the total building area is 8500 sqm, and 32 households are involved.
Tags: Song-Style Residential, Oriental Tradition, Settlement, Chinese Traditional Garden
Production Technology: Song-style is the most exquisite but not complicated architectural form in Chinese architecture history. The project reduces complexity to simplicity by using modern architectural language while maintaining the readability of architectural symbols, applies the technology of Chinese traditional style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wood structure, which obtains the Chinese Utility Patent, making the contemporary practice of Chinese traditional style buildings more sustainable.
Design Challenge: Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project creates a new living experience responds to the local climate and traditional living habits based on the characteristics of traditional residential settlements, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience.
Research: Since the Song Dynasty, JIE-DRAWING (to draw with a ruler and to obtain the clear boundary) had become a technique of Chinese painting. Compared with other kinds of painting, it requires to accurately and carefully reproduce the painted objects. Therefore, JIE-DRAWING has scientifically recorded the ancient buildings, urban features and living scenes of Song dynasty. Therefore, it is an important way to obtain the basis of design from the Song calligraphy and Song paintings.
Inspiration: This project creates the spatial pattern of multi-sided landscape and multiple courtyards, forming a direct dialogue between architecture and nature. The courtyard presents a natural openness while giving consideration to privacy. The project classifies the courtyards with the traditional Chinese garden landscape borrowing approach, thus the sequence between the private and public courtyards is more variable, which is closer to be in line with the contemporary aesthetic needs.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2018 and finished in October 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Operation Flow: This project combines the traditional residential form and the contemporary construction technology. From the perspective of cost and natural resources, the use of traditional Chinese style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wooden structure can perfectly present the beautiful form of traditional buildings, ensures the performance of construction, reasonable cost and construction cycle, it can be widely used in the contemporary practice of traditional Chinese style buildings.
Patents: Copyrights belong to gad
Image Credits: gad