Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina by RUF Architects

Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina by RUF Architects is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Fausaga Fale Competition Category.

ArioFausaga Fale· 2021

Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina

by RUF Architects

Client: RUF Architects

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Fausaga Fale Category

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The Design

About Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina

Handan Zarsion o se nofoaga autu mo le soifua maloloina na fausia i luga o le nofoaga sa avea muamua ma fale gaosi okesene i Handan, Saina. O tulimanu tipi o le fale e fausia ai se sikuea faalotoifale e tumau pea le tatala i le auala. E fa'aoga e tagata nonofo ai le sikuea e talatalanoa ai, taalo ma le siapo, savavali ma savavali ai maile. O se fa'atulagaga umi manifinifi e mulimuli i le foliga vaapiapi o le nofoaga i le tulimanu. I luga o le fogafale lona lua, e 18 metotia liliu foliga vaa e fa'atulaga i taimi tutusa, ma liliu ta'itasi i le sefulu tikeri. O le susulu o le la i luga o liliu e fai ai ni mamanu suisui o le malamalama ma le paolo i le foliga i luma o le fale.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Handan Zarsion Primary Function: Nofoaga Autu mo le Soifua Maloloina o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project was designed to form an urban square by chamfered corners to maintain the greatest interaction and openness. The square formed by chamfered corners of the building is not only a display platform in harmony with the city, but also a natural convergence point of vitality.

Considering that this is a long and narrow urban corner land, the "一"-shaped layout can perfectly fit its overall boundary attribute. A brand new super-scale interface strongly stimulates the vitality of the city.
Dimensions & Packaging: The black and white moire pattern is formed by the misaligned array. When there is sunlight, the effect of light and shadow makes the two-dimensional building facade present a three-dimensional dynamic of industrial aesthetics and a geometric illusion rather than a static approach, thus giving this undulating long interface a strong sense of future and fantasy.
Tags: Living Center, Renovation, Urbanization, Community, Commercial, Architecture
Production Technology: On the second floor of the building, 18 metal shuttle-shaped louvers are embedded in the 8,400 width like rhythmic keys. Each louver rotates 10 degrees and is installed at a distance of 450 intervals, which gives full consideration to the actual functions and transparency of vision.
Design Challenge: The arched space formed inadvertently between two mushroom-shaped columns creates a kind of spatio-temporal dialogue, which actually beautifies the structural intention of the cow-leg pillars and arch trusses in the old workshop. The anti-gravity and sense of history of the mushroom columns interweave in the background of the interlayer arc light strips, presenting some kind of contradiction and uncertainty.
Research: Along with the development and urbanization of China continues, the project is part of the updates in the city. Time flies, decades of years have passed, and industries are constantly improving and updating. In the past 30 years with the new production methods and forces coming up, those factories and affiliates built by old production force need to be updated constantly, adapting to all the functions required by the new productive relations.
Inspiration: The project locates in the once glorious Handan Oxygenerator Factory. Founded in 1946, it has rapidly become a forgotten urban ruin due to the recent change of industry. The land, which bears the memory of generations, has undergone fractured changes in an instant.

The original intention of the design is to realize urban renewal in an industrial heritage of low industrial aesthetic value, and to give new life to this large area of forgotten cold ruins and bring hope and joy to the city.
Project Duration: The project started in Dec. 2019 in Handan City, Hebei Province, China and was completed in March 2020.
Operation Flow: By chamfered corners, architects formed an urban square to maintain the greatest interaction and openness between the living center and the city, making it a good place for residents to chat, play chess, take a walk and walk dogs. This vivid pocket square injects a kind of new energy into the city.
Team Members: RUF Architects
Lead Architect：Qian Mingbo
Design Team：Song Xinhua, Li Fucai, Zhao Yuanyuan, Zhang Zichao
Image Credits: Photo Credits: CreatAR Images, Shrimp Studio, Li Shengyang