Slab Hill Setsi sa Bophelo by Greentown China Holdings Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Moputso oa Khauta oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Meaho, Dikaho le Dibopego Competition Category.
KhautaMeaho· 2022
Slab Hill Setsi sa Bophelo
by Greentown China Holdings Limited
Client: Greentown China Holdings Limited
Moputso oa Khauta oa A' Design Award Winner in Meaho Category
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The Design
About Slab Hill Setsi sa Bophelo
Slab Hill ke setsi sa bophelo se hahiloeng Changsha, China. Moaho ona o akaretsa limithara tse lekaneng ka mahlakore tse 2071 'me o entsoe ka likarolo tsa moaho tse 45 tse nang le sebopeho sa sekhele sa pula. Mefuta e meraro ea boholo ba likarolo, e thehiloeng holim'a mokhoa oa limithara tse tharo, e kopantsoe hore e be moralo o ka holang. Marako ohle a ka hare a batla a tlositsoe, kahoo libaka tse pakeng tsa litšiea tse kang likhele li lula li bulehile ebile li phallela. Bokaholimo ba likhele bo apesitsoe ka konkreite e matlafalitsoeng ka likhoele tsa khalase e nang le sebopeho se theohang ka ho otloloha ka mebala ea mobu. Sepheo ke ho beha leralla le lenyenyane la maiketsetso ka hare ho tikoloho ea letsatsi le letsatsi ea mathoko a toropo.
The Recognition
About the Moputso oa Khauta oa A' Design Award
Slab Hill Setsi sa Bophelo ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Khauta oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang haholo e fuoang meralo ea maemo a pele, e ntle ka ho makatsa le e ikhethang. Bahapi ba Khauta ke lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse nang le mehopolo e mecha haholo, tse shebileng pele le tse khanyang ka ho foufatsa, tse bontšang botsebi, bohlale le bokhoni ba baqapi ba tsona. Slab Hill Setsi sa Bophelo e lebelletsoe ho ba mohopolo o babatsoang haholo, o thehang mekhoa e mecha le o moholo, o tlisang boleng bo sa kang ba bonoa. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Khauta oa A' Design Award ke mosebetsi o tsosang maikutlo, o hlomphehang, o tlisang molemo o moholo le o sutumelletsang meeli ea bonono, mahlale, moralo le theknoloji. Slab Hill Setsi sa Bophelo e hlahisa maikutlo a matla a takatso, e tsosa tjantjello, e khothalletsa boqapi mme e re khahlisa.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The designers restored a certain "self-explanatory" of the basic unit through architectural forms and structural expressions, and to realize artificially reconstructed non-daily experience of the landscape through the organizational growth of this unit, the complex implantation of multi-functions, and the superimposed penetration of landscape and greenery.
It dispels almost all of the interior walls and the plans between the umbrella columns create a highly free, flowing spatial reorganization. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Area: 2071 sqm
The glass curtain wall is basically supported by T-beams as the keel and all interior partitions are clad in mirror stainless steel. The continuous, vanishing interior interface weakens the presence of the rods while emphasizing the extended display of the glass surface. The glass curtain wall intersecting with the umbrella conceals the frames and components within the joint recesses of the GRC curtain wall, ensuring structural integrity and purity as far as possible. - Tags
- Greentowm, Umbrella-shaped Building, Sales Center, Lifestyle Lab, gad/line+
- Production Technology
- The GRC material texture of the umbrella units is interpretive of the structure and we have chosen earthy colors that are close to nature. In order to find the most suitable GRC texture density, we went through several stages of computer simulation, 3D printing and physical prototyping to precisely control the horizontal texture, thus achieving a cascading texture.
- Design Challenge
- The site is surrounded by two main urban roads in the east and north, a planned high-density neighborhood in the south, and an urban river spreading out from the Songya Lake wetland basin on the west, where artificial and natural fragmentation intertwine during rapid urbanization. Faced with the lack of context of the site, we intend to stimulate this everyday suburban landscape by inserting a small heterogeneous "hill"-the "Slab Hill".
- Research
- After identifying the structural prototype as the basic cell unit, we formed three kinds of structural units of 6x6m, 6x12m and 9x18m using 3m as the basic module. The design further revolves around the need for spatial capacity, with the 45 umbrella structures meeting the seismic requirements with a uniform canopy edge distance of 2m and a limited number of connections, which are then combined in the same series of modules to form a homogeneous "growabl"eplane.
- Inspiration
- In order to build a deep foundation of dialogue with nature in the everyday urban site, we envisage a new architectural prototype based on the fractal geometry of nature-the smallest structural unit in the construction process as the basic spatial unit, which, with a certain"self-similarity", thus building up the architectural form-this evolution of the building from unit to whole is similar to the natural growth of a living creature in response to the laws of nature.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2021 in Changsha, Hunan Province, China and finished in August 2021 in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
- Operation Flow
- As the name suggests, the "Slab Hill" is an artificial hill based on an umbrella-shaped structural unit. The umbrella-shaped structure was chosen as a structural prototype because of its clear and simple "column-slab" structural support system and the sense of domain created by the large spatial coverage, and because umbrella shapes are common in the plant world-from small umbrella-shaped mushrooms to trees like Dracaena draco-which highlights the bionic traits.
- Team Members
- Clients:Greentown China Holdings Limited, Midea Real Estate Holding Limited
Design Firm: line+, gad
Chief Architect/Project Leader: Zhu Peidong
Design Team: Sun Xiaoyu, Yang Xiaoyu, Sun Jin - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #2: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #3: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #4: Photographer LI YI, MZ STUDIOS
Image #5: Photographer MZ STUDIOS
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