Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos by Zhe Wang

Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos by Zhe Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Prata in Design de Arquitetura, Edifícios e Estruturas Competition Category.

PrataArquitetura· 2022

Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos

by Zhe Wang

Client: Beijing Sza Architectural Design Consultant

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Arquitetura Category

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The Design

About Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos

Xizhimen Port é um edifício de apartamentos em Pequim, na China. A estrutura de dez andares foi construída na década de 1980 e posteriormente reformada para jovens inquilinos urbanos. A nova fachada é formada por caixilhos de alumínio que se projetam para fora da parede externa. Os caixilhos organizam as vigas e os pilares aparentes do edifício original e oferecem espaço para a unidade de ar-condicionado de cada quarto. No interior de cada caixilho, a cor passa gradualmente do laranja, no topo, ao amarelo-claro, na base. As janelas acrescentadas nas paredes leste e oeste aumentam a luz natural em 50 por cento.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Xizhimen Port Edifício de Apartamentos é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: One's residence and clothing represent a person's temperament. Apartments designed to inspire innovative young people naturally need a vibrant, attractive facade. The design organizes the variously spaced exposed beams and columns on the original facade while providing the housing for each room’s AC unit. The new facade was designed as a series of aluminum window frames projecting out from the exterior wall. The scale of the window frames increases at the building corner as if the entire building were twisting on the square as a vivid urban sculpture.
Dimensions & Packaging: Floors: 10-story
Site Area: 2872sqm
Total Area:11000sqm
Tags: Architecture renovation, Facade design, Residential, Apartment
Production Technology: The architect made different adjustments to each floor. By adding windows on the east and west side wall at typical floors, a more active urban facade is presented, at the same time, daylighting for each floor is increased by 50%. It provides flexible and private spaces for young tenants within a limited building area. The core of the room unit layout at how to provide customers with a safe and comfortable room space under the premise of limited space.
Design Challenge: The development of the Xizhimen Port Apartments was driven by the challenge of balancing the existing structural conditions of the 10-story building constructed in the 1980s with bold architectural expression, current building technologies, and efficient design. The original building has a large number of reinforced beams and columns exposed on the facade with variant spacing; also the renovated facade needs to find space for the AC unit of each room. So the architect designed an aluminum window frame projecting out from the exterior wall. The abundant aluminum window covers are like a horizontal combination of "Pandora's Boxes", using rhythmic changes to meet the objective functional requirements of the building.
Research: This building carries many common memories of the "same song" KTV, which is also one of its old identities. The outdated image, depressed tonality, and precipitated vicissitudes of this existing building are no longer in line with these young people who are trying to be innovative in the new era. Upgrading the appearance of the old buildings, reshaping the image of the city, stimulating the vitality of the community, and also providing urban young people with a warm home with a story and a dream, become a new topic faced by this project.
Inspiration: As a trendy apartment for innovative young people, its appearance needs to jump out of the surrounding old community environment, but can not affect the harmonious coexistence. Inspired by the scenery of the lunar eclipse, the facade is designed with bright colors which bring rich expression. The inside of the window sleeve changes from orange at the top to pale yellow at the bottom, like the color spectrum of the lunar eclipse, and also celebrating Beijing's golden autumn while the Port Apartment opens in October.
Project Duration: This project completed in Oct. 2018 in Beijing, China.
Operation Flow: The vibrant facade of the apartment was designed to inspire its residents of innovative young people as a new model for urban renewal and architectural renovation. With the development of the city to a certain stage, renewal design is bound to gradually become the main trend of urban development. Xizhimen Port Apartment is an exploration, hoping to gradually practice another way of urban renewal in addition to the point type experimental project and the surface type "large-scale demolition and construction".
Team Members: Wang Zhe
Shi Wei
Wen Zewei
Wang Meilin
Zhang Yan
Han Qi
Hong Wei
Image Credits: Photography: Jin Weiqi