Guilin Centro de Exposições by Tengyuan Design

Guilin Centro de Exposições by Tengyuan Design 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

Guilin Centro de Exposições

by Tengyuan Design

Client: Tengyuan Design

A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Arquitetura Category

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The Design

About Guilin Centro de Exposições

Guilin é um centro de exposições de cultura e turismo concebido como um cubo de vidro minimalista. O edifício ocupa 4021 metros quadrados. A fachada-cortina de vidro é construída com nervuras de vidro em consola dispostas na vertical em duas densidades e alturas. As nervuras formam três planos de silhuetas de colinas no alçado, lidos como vistas próxima, intermédia e distante. A sobreposição de transmissão, reflexão e refração entre as camadas de vidro altera-se com a luz. Uma galeria de bambu acompanha o percurso principal no interior do salão de exposições. O projeto transforma a paisagem de Guilin em forma construída.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

Guilin Centro de Exposições 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 Guilin Centro de Exposições 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. Guilin Centro de Exposições 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: The building in the design draft remains a minimalist cube, and the only difference is that the curtain wall is processed in order to build a "landscape cube". The skillful use of artificial elements and abstract nature not only reveals the modernity of the showcased building, but also integrates the unique scenery of Guilin into the building.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 4021 square meters. The glass ribs rise and fall vertically, forming rolling hill shades on the building. Two set of glass ribs, different in density and vertical height, form three levels of hill shades on the building elevation, including the "close view", "medium view" and "distant view".
Tags: Architecture, Culture Center, Exhibition, Oriental Elements, Natural, Elegant, Bamboo,
Production Technology: On the front plaza, the reflection of the building in water makes the building more layered and expressive. The vertical glass ribs are arranged evenly and projected vertically onto the glass curtain wall. Due to different locations and angles, there appears a difference in the abundant overlapped transmissions, reflections and refractions among the glass layers, and a subtly changing dramatic effect can be produced under different illumination conditions.
Design Challenge: One of the innovations of the project is the single use of glass to present the spatial structure and poetic conception of the landscape in Guilin using different construction methods and surface processing methods.
Research: The building curtain wall must not only show a spatial structure composed of distant, medium and close views, but also keep nightscape animation effects consistent with one another to avoid the appearance of "ripstop effects" caused by a stick curtain wall in nightscape lighting. After many discussions and technical communications, we finally decided to build a glass curtain wall with cantilever glass ribs.
Inspiration: The landscape in Guilin is the best in the world. Thus, the project of Guilin Culture and Tourism Exhibition Center deservedly chooses to highlight the theme of landscape. For this project, we hope to design it based on the landscape, express in a certain shape and endow it with a meaning, and use a pure glass box to arouse people's inner feelings for nature and landscape.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2016 in Guilin and finished in September 2018 in Guilin.
Operation Flow: China has a longstanding tradition of bamboo culture, and Guilin also abounds in natural bamboo resources. We have designed a bamboo gallery on the main sightseeing route in the showroom to create an artistic conception of bamboo forest.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Tengyuan Design, 2018.
Team Members: Zhao Guangjun
Wang Zhenming
Wei Peng
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Kai Wang, Top View, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery 2, 2018.