Seal Arkivbyggnad by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award i Brons in Arkitektur-, Byggnads- och Konstruktionsdesign Competition Category.

BronsArkitektur· 2022

Seal Arkivbyggnad

by Peng Xiao

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

A' Design Award i Brons Winner in Arkitektur Category

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The Design

About Seal Arkivbyggnad

Seal är en arkivbyggnad belägen i Wuhan, Hubei, Kina. Byggnaden har en total bruttoarea på 57 487 kvadratmeter och en höjd på 66 meter. Formen kombinerar ett torn och en sockelbyggnad, vilket frigör gemensamma ytor på de nedre våningarna och placerar arkivförvaringen på de övre våningarna. Publika och professionella cirkulationsstråk är åtskilda. Fasaden är inspirerad av det kinesiska sigillet och presenterar tidslinjer över historiska händelser i staden. Lokala material och lågkolteknologier har använts. En flerfunktionshall och ett stort mötesrum är öppna för allmänheten.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Brons

Seal Arkivbyggnad är vinnare av A' Design Award i Brons, ett högst prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas enastående designverk som utmärker sig genom kreativitet, uppfinningsrikedom och klokhet. Bronsvinnare är mycket skickliga och slående kreativa föremål som styrker formgivarnas stora erfarenhet, fantasi och påhittighet. Seal Arkivbyggnad förväntas vara ett högt skattat, beundrat och älskat föremål som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Brons införlivar bästa praxis inom konst, vetenskap, design och teknik och är utmärkt genom sin omsorg om detaljer. Seal Arkivbyggnad tillfredsställer fantastiskt behov, rör vid längtan, charmar känslor och väcker nyfikenhet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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