Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga by Tengyuan Design

Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga by Tengyuan Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Auro in Mamanu Fausaga Fale Competition Category.

AuroFausaga Fale· 2020

Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga

by Tengyuan Design

Client: Tengyuan Design

A' Design Award Auro Winner in Fausaga Fale Category

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The Design

About Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga

O Guilin o se nofoaga faʻaaliga o aganuu ma turisi ua mamanuina e pei o se pusa tioata faigofie ma manino. E aofia ai le fale i le 4021 sikuea mita. O le puipui tioata pito i fafo ua fausia i ivi tioata faʻalava e tu saʻo i luga i ni mafiafia se lua ma maualuga eseese. O nei ivi ua fausia ai ni vaega se tolu o paolo o mauga i luga o le pito i luma o le fale, e faitauina o ni vaaiga latalata, ogatotonu ma mamao. O le fesoʻotaʻiga o le ui atu o le malamalama, ata faʻaalia ma le faʻaliliuina o le malamalama i le va o vaega tioata e suia i le suiga o le malamalama. O loo i ai se faapaologa ʻofe e mulimuli i le ala autu i totonu o le potu faʻaaliga. O le mamanu ua liua ai le laufanua o Guilin i se foliga faufale.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Auro

O le A' Design Award Auro na manumalo ai Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu o le tulaga muamua, matagofie ma maoaʻe. O ē manumalo i le Auro o galuega fou tele, matuā vaai i le lumanaʻi ma susulu e faaalia ai le atamai, le poto ma le tomai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga e avea ma mea fou e matuā vivii, e faatulaga ai uiga fou ma tetele, e tuuina mai ai se tau e leʻi iai muamua. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Auro o se galuega ofoofogia, ua faaaloalogia, e aogā tele ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Guilin Nofoaga Faʻaaliga e fatuina ai lagona malosi o le manaʻo, faaosofia le tuinanau, faalauiloa le fatufatuaʻi ma faamalosia i tatou.

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.