Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional by Ann Yu

Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional by Ann Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Argint in Design Interior Competition Category.

ArgintInterior· 2023

Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional

by Ann Yu

Client: Guangzhou Pearl River Enterprises Group

A' Design Award de Argint Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional

Guangzhou Julong Bay este un centru expozițional creat în interiorul a patru depozite din cărămidă construite în anii 1950 pe malul vestic al Fluviului Perlelor. Fostele clădiri ale grânarului își păstrează structura și materialele originale, în timp ce cărămizile din argilă lucrate manual, realizate la comandă, completează părțile noi. Un cadru de oțel cu deschidere mare și un perete cortină din sticlă înclinat formează un acoperiș deasupra hambarelor paralele, unindu-le într-un interior flexibil de 5000 de metri pătrați. Structura de oțel se extinde până la sol pe ambele laturi pentru a forma un coridor deschis către peisajul de pe malul râului și către vegetația existentă.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Argint

Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional a câștigat A' Design Award de Argint, o recunoaștere extraordinar de prestigioasă acordată designurilor de top, superbe și impresionante. Câștigătorii Argintului sunt lucrări extraordinar de strălucite și extrem de creative, care ilustrează expertiza, talentul și perspicacitatea remarcabile ale designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional să fie o lucrare minunată, de referință, remarcabil de profesionistă și profund inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Argint este o invenție foarte notabilă și admirată, care aduce beneficii și împinge limitele artei, științei, designului și tehnologiei. Guangzhou Julong Bay Centru Expozițional este o creație extrem de invidiată, care trezește dorințe, aduce sentimente pozitive și stârnește uimire și mirare.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Located on the west bank of the Pearl River, the original site with four separated brick warehouses built in the 1950s was a significant granary of Guangzhou. As the first stage of the city government’s renewal master plan in the area, the key objectives of the adaptive reuse project were to remain its industrial past as a reminder of history, while building a city-planning exhibition hall and civic center that act as a beacon to investors, developers, and citizens, to encourage massive participation in the rebirth of the old district. The core design idea was to ensure its new functional usability while presenting the old site in an attractive way to the young generation. The project has been rated a high score in the SITES Sustainable System, as the first to achieve that in China.
Dimensions & Packaging: Area：5000 meter square
Tags: Oldbuildings, conservation, revitalisation, reuse, Revitalization of old buildings, Reborn, Exhibition Center, Handmade Bricks
Production Technology: large-span steel frame and full-slope glass curtain wall system； handmade bricks
Design Challenge: For practicing designers, there is not much room for practice due to the overwhelming historical meaning of the architectural conservation field, which is too complicated to regulate. Instead, there are a lot of possibilities in the field of conservation revitalization of old buildings on how to renovate. The numerous protective revitalization approach is either an allusion to or an extension of the different repair theories in the right proportion.

Take the example of Chong Kou Warehouse. Transformed from a 19th-century grain warehouse into a commercial urban exhibition center, the original building group has a very simple layout. Three groups of 13m x 45m square pods of uniform length and width in proportion to their structure are lined up along the short side at 10m intervals. The physical spaces of the building have a good and balanced ratio of area to open void spaces. The warehouse, on the other hand, has an interior usable area of 1,755 square meters, which in fact cannot take on the full function of an urban exhibition center. Therefore expansion became necessary. On the basis of the structural characteristics of the original building, a vertical extension would be extremely costly and irreversibly damage the sloping roof of the original building. Thus flat expansion became the first choice. The open void space of the original site is incorporated into the new space and organized into a non-thematic visiting/reception/resting space, which is incorporated into the main exhibition and meeting content that the original three-story interior can take on, a good functional and logical organization of space can be achieved within the limited scope of the renovation. The four silos are placed horizontally and independently of the main building due to budget reasons. Because of its proximity to the original three warehouses, we have designed a connecting corridor into a reception space that is visually strongly connected to the main building but functionally independent.
Research: The original site of this project is four separated brick granaries that were built in the 1950s. As the first stage of the renewal plan in the area, the key objectives of the adaptive reuse project were to remain its industrial past as a reminder of its history, while building a city-planning exhibition hall and civic center. To encourage massive participation in the rebirth of the old district, the original structure and materials of the warehouses were reserved as far as possible, while customized imitated clay bricks are adopted in the new-built part. The core design idea was to ensure its new functional usability while presenting the old site in an attractive way to the young generation.
Inspiration: The Chongkou warehouse is a group of old warehouses on the river bank, which retains its identity as an old building and avoids being classified as a historical and cultural preservation building and thus has a new fate. It is also possible to completely avoid the "something if nothing, a reality if nothing, great wisdom if foolishness". This is indeed the luck of its destiny. And it is even more fortunate that we, as designers, have been given this honored opportunity to renovate this group of nearly century-old buildings and bestow them a contemporary significance.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2021 in Guangzhou China and finished in February 2022 ,and exhibited in Guangzhou China in May 2022.
Operation Flow: The old warehouses were built for plain purpose with a simple brick structure. The original structure and materials of the warehouses were reserved as far as possible, while customized imitated clay bricks are adopted in the new-built part.

In order to create a connected inner space for a new massive building, a canopy of glass and steel structure was designed to build on the parallel barns, which enabled the interior to be rearranged flexibly usage. Its triangle appearance inherits the inclined angle of the sloping ceilings of the old warehouses, and at the same time gives a steady yet energetic characteristic. Modern steel structure and glass, together with traditional bricks, worked harmoniously.

The steel structure of the canopy extended on both sides to the ground, which formed a corridor that brought in the riverside landscape, and a coexistence with the original plants on the site. It also created an interaction between the building and the natural environment, which helped to build a friendly and cozy ambiance for the interior.