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Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane by Peng Xiao

Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Meaho, Dikaho le Dibopego Competition Category.


BoronseMeaho· 2022

Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane

by Peng Xiao

Client: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award Winner in Meaho Category

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The Design

About Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane

Seal ke mohaho oa polokelo ea litokomane o fumanehang Wuhan, Hubei, Chaena. Mohaho ona o na le sebaka se akaretsang sa 57,487 square meters le bolelele ba 66 metres. Sebopeho se kopanya tora le podium, e leng se lokollang sebaka se arolelanoang mekatong e tlaase ebile se beha polokelo ea litokomane mekatong e kaholimo. Litsela tsa ho tsamaea tsa sechaba le tsa setsebi li arohile. Sefahleho se bululetsoe ke tiiso ea Sechaena (Chinese seal) mme se hlahisa nako ea liketsahalo tsa histori toropong ena. Lisebelisoa tsa selehae le mahlale a fokolang karebone a sebelisitsoe. Holo e sebelisoang ka mekhoa e mengata le kamore e kholo ea liboka li bulehetse sechaba.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award

Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang haholo e fuoang meralo e ikhethang e tsejoang ka boqapi, bohlale ba ho qapa le bohlale. Bahapi ba Boronse ke lintho tse nang le bokhoni ka ho felletseng le boqapi bo hlollang tse tiisang boiphihlelo bo bongata, mohopolo le bokhoni ba ho iphumana ba baqapi ba tsona. Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e nang le boprofeshenale bo bonahalang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Boronse oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa bonong, mahlaleng, moralong le theknolojing mme o hlahella ka ho tsepamisa maikutlo lintlheng tse nyenyane. Seal Mohaho oa Polokelo ea Litokomane e kutloisisa litlhoko hantle, e ama litakatso, e hapa maikutlo mme e tsosa takatso ea ho tseba.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.
Dimensions & Packaging
Total Land Area: 13291 square meters
Gross Floor Area: 57487 square meters
Height:66 meters
Tags
culture sharing space ecologic
Production Technology
City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city.
Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.
Design Challenge
Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.
Research
Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.
Inspiration
Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern.
Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates.
Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.
Project Duration
The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Operation Flow
The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.
Team Members
Director:
Xiao peng, Zhang songmin
Team members:
Li li, Liu fengqi, Li hongsheng, Shu xiaoling, Ge xiang, Li dongmei, Peng yiqi, Ye xin, Chen junyu, Wu jiangtao, Zhen mengdi, Zhang di, Xiong xiaoping

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