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City Of Light Centro Comunitário by Kris Lin

City Of Light Centro Comunitário by Kris Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Ouro in Design de Arquitetura, Edifícios e Estruturas Competition Category.


OuroArquitetura· 2020

City Of Light Centro Comunitário

by Kris Lin

Client: Excellence Group

A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Arquitetura Category

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The Design

About City Of Light Centro Comunitário

Cidade da Luz é um centro comunitário construído em um antigo bairro de Xangai, China. O edifício abriga um ginásio, uma sala de yoga, um pavilhão temático infantil, um café, uma galeria de arte, um centro de saúde para idosos e uma área de estudos para crianças. A forma acompanha o ritmo do rio situado em frente ao terreno, e por isso a fachada é curva e contínua como a água em movimento. Placas de alumínio, um material econômico e comum, foram moldadas em uma superfície hiperbólica com o auxílio de modelagem tridimensional. A praça aberta na parte frontal convida os moradores a se encontrarem e interagirem.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

City Of Light Centro Comunitário conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que City Of Light Centro Comunitário seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. City Of Light Centro Comunitário cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
As a public community project, this project is set up as a city station. It is a public open community building with gymnasium, yoga classroom, children s theme pavilion, cafe, art gallery, elderly health center, children s study area, etc. It is a community-oriented open space, but at the same time, we want to be the center and landmark of the surrounding community.So we hope to design a fluid building like water, and hope that the square in front will function as a very open community.
Dimensions & Packaging
area 17222sq.ft
Tags
Streamlined building, The beauty of the curve, Urban shared space, Communication, Lighting
Production Technology
In this project what we adopted is a relatively cost effective and conventional material aluminum plate as a material choice, but we are challenging to design a curved facade, so it is difficult to install aluminum plate on the streamlined lines.And at the same time it functions as a hyperboloid. We used 3D model design and finally made the shape of the building. We realized a hyperboloid effect with aluminum plates. Although it uses economical materials, it is still challenging.
Design Challenge
I hope that this project will bring new vitality in the surrounding old city. We have adopted a new architectural approach and hope it will become a landmark in the surrounding communities, using the creative and fluid architecture. We hope to drive the vitality of the city and create more space, increase more ties between people so that it will become a community center.
Research
In fact, this is a new building based on an old town project. The government wants to build a city station in the old city,hoping to allow more community people to participate, enter and increase the interaction between the neighborhoods. Rather than because of the construction and development of the city, people are becoming more and more estranged. I hope that everyone will have more exchanges.
Inspiration
A river is in front of this project. So we want to develop the design concept from the rhythm of the water itself with the usage of the liquid-like blob architecture. My inspiration comes from the undulating rhythm of the water.
Project Duration
The project started in Jan 2018 in Shanghai,China, and finished in JAN 2019 in Shanghai,China,and was exhibited in in Shanghai,China,Jan 2019.
Operation Flow
We hope to design an open public space and strive to build a center of the city to increase the interaction of the neighborhood instead of estrange people with the city architecture development. I hope everyone has more communities communication and people to people contact.So we hope to make a more open space for everyone to enter.
Patents
Copyrights belongs to KLID (Kris Lin International Design)
Team Members
Kris Lin
Jiayu Yang
Image Credits
Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer KLID 2019

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