Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco by Yue Xu

Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco by Yue Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza in Igishushanyo cy'Ubwubatsi Competition Category.

IfezaUbwubatsi· 2020

Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco

by Yue Xu

Client: Voa

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza Winner in Ubwubatsi Category

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The Design

About Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco

Ikigo cy'Iyakira cya Mermaid Town ni inyubako y'umuco iherereye i Zhouning, mu ntara ya Fujian, mu Bushinwa. Iri sambu rifite ubuso bwa metero kare 12000 kandi rikora nk'ikigo gitanga ba mukerarugendo n'ikigo cy'ibikorwa by'umuco. Iyi gahunda y'ubwubatsi ihuza imiterere y'inziga n'iy'ikare, ishingiye ku bwubatsi bw'ibihome by'ubutaka byo mu karere. Igihaza kiziguye kirangira imbibi hagati y'inyubako ebyiri kandi gitanga uburinzi ku zuba rikaze ryo mu mpeshyi no ku mvura n'ubukonje bw'imbeho. Inkuta zo hanze zishushanyijeho irangi ryera rifite imiterere n'amatafari y'ibumba y'imvi akozwe n'intoki. Imirongo y'umwanya ihuza amazu n'agasumo kegereye, ikiyaga n'umusozi.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza

Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza, ishimwe ridasanzwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo byo ku rwego rwo hejuru, byiza kandi bikora ku mutima. Abegukanye Ifeza ni ibihangano by'ubuhanga bukomeye kandi bifite guhanga kwinshi, bigaragaza ubuhanga bwimbitse, impano n'ubushishozi bw'ababihanze. Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cy'icyitegererezo, gifite ubunyamwuga bukomeye n'udushya twimbitse. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Ifeza ni igihangano kizwi kandi gishimwa, gifasha kugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. Mermaid Town Reception Hall Imiterere y'Ubwubatsi bw'Umuco ni igihangano benshi bifuza, gikangura ibyifuzo, gitanga amarangamutima meza kandi gitera igitangaza.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The site is surrounded by water in the north, dotted with hills. Designers adopted the gestalt geometry strategy as a positive means to deal with the contrast between artificial and natural, and achieved the Oriental aesthetic conception of round sky, square place, elegant and peaceful with the surrounding natural landscape, which is also the abstract expression of mermaid harmonious culture.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 12000 square meters. Under the background of the regeneration of urban and rural historical environment and the construction of Characteristic Towns in the ascendant, through the engineering practice of the reception hall of Zhouning Mermaid Town, the architects made a beneficial exploration on the direction of China's future small town construction.
Tags: Architectural Design, Oriental Elements, Tourism Distribution Center, Cultural Activity Center, Mermaid Culture, Global, Locality, Commemoration, Modern
Production Technology: The exterior walls of buildings are respectively painted with white texture paint and hand-made gray brick, which is a practical strategy to deal with the inevitable construction errors of China's rapid construction. In particular, the woven hemp rope background wall in the entrance hall of the small theater is the remedy taken by the designer to deal with the incredible budget errors.
Design Challenge: A circular corridor is set up at the boundary of the two buildings, which is not only the designers' response to the strong radiation in summer and rainy and cold climate in winter in Zhouning, but also a non-verbal expression of the path of fish sacrifice, a unique intangible cultural heritage of Carp Brook Ancient Village. Through the isomorphism of this ritual track, which has been accumulated for thousands of years, the architecture achieves a delicate balance between memorial and life.
Research: Carp Brook Ancient Village in Zhouning County, Fujian is a famous historical and cultural village that has lasted for more than one thousand years. It has built a beautiful scenery of Peach Garden where people and fish share happiness and live harmoniously, and everywhere embodies the unity of heaven and man pursued by Chinese traditional culture. This case is only one mountain away from Carp Brook Ancient Village, which is the distribution hub of the future scenic area open to visitors.
Inspiration: The purpose of this project is to interpret the tradition with the modern, change the life with the architecture, and revitalize the countryside with the design. In the northeast of Fujian Province near Zhouning, there are such unique architectural types as "earth fort", which is the combination of square and circle, and simple in volume. It provides inspiration for designers to build a "round sky and place" in the local context.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2017 in Ningde and finished in September 2019 in Ningde.
Operation Flow: The designers built a group of spatial axes connecting the turning points between the geometric centers of the two buildings. One side is adjacent to the Carp Brook in the center of the historical village, one side leads to the Longteng Lake in the center of the new town, and the other side is facing the highest Xianfeng Mountain in Zhouning. The building is firmly anchored in the context of the city, quietly telling Zhouning's past, present and future.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Yue Xu, 2019.
Team Members: Yue Xu
Lvting Qu
Xiaoyun Qi
Chencheng Li
Qizun Cai
Feng Zhou
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Dachou Wang, Mermaid Town, 2019.