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Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi by Likun Shen

Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi by Likun Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Majengo, Ujenzi na Miundo Competition Category.


ShabaUsanifu wa Majengo· 2023

Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi

by Likun Shen

Client: Gad

Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Usanifu wa Majengo Category

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The Design

About Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi

Maandishi ya Kitabu: Tianqingli Residential ni mkusanyiko wa makazi ulioko upande wa kaskazini wa Mto Shangtang huko Hangzhou, Uchina. Muundo huu unatumia usanifu wa mtindo wa Song kupitia lugha rahisi ya kisasa, ukihifadhi usomeka wa maumbo ya kimapokeo. Kaya thelathini na mbili zimepangwa katika eneo la mita za mraba 17900. Nyua na vichochoro vingi vinaunganisha nyumba hizo na vilima pamoja na maji yanayozizunguka, vikilinganisha uwazi na faragha. Mfumo wa ukuta wa pazia unaochanganya alumini na mbao unasaidia kudumisha muonekano wa kimapokeo huku ukidhibiti gharama na muda wa ujenzi.

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award

Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa unaotolewa kwa miundo bora inayotofautishwa kwa ubunifu, ustadi na busara. Washindi wa Shaba ni kazi za ufundi mwingi na bunifu ya kushangaza zinazothibitisha uzoefu mpana, mawazo na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi inatarajiwa kuwa kitu kinachothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambacho ni cha kitaalamu na bunifu kwa kiasi kikubwa. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora katika sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia, na ni bora kwa umakini wake kwa undani. Tianqingli Residential Kazi Kuu: Mji wa Makazi hutosheleza mahitaji kwa uzuri, hugusa hamu, huvutia hisia na kuvutia udadisi.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The project is located at the north side of Shangtang River, a canal tributary of Hangzhou, as the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Relying on the landscape of hills in the east, the project aims at becoming the first Song-style residential cluster with Chinese traditional gardens in China, and tries to explore the possibility of the revival of oriental classical culture from the perspective of the contemporary and sustainable development of traditional architecture.
Dimensions & Packaging
The total site area is 17900 sqm, the total building area is 8500 sqm, and 32 households are involved.
Tags
Song-Style Residential, Oriental Tradition, Settlement, Chinese Traditional Garden
Production Technology
Song-style is the most exquisite but not complicated architectural form in Chinese architecture history. The project reduces complexity to simplicity by using modern architectural language while maintaining the readability of architectural symbols, applies the technology of Chinese traditional style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wood structure, which obtains the Chinese Utility Patent, making the contemporary practice of Chinese traditional style buildings more sustainable.
Design Challenge
Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project creates a new living experience responds to the local climate and traditional living habits based on the characteristics of traditional residential settlements, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience.
Research
Since the Song Dynasty, JIE-DRAWING (to draw with a ruler and to obtain the clear boundary) had become a technique of Chinese painting. Compared with other kinds of painting, it requires to accurately and carefully reproduce the painted objects. Therefore, JIE-DRAWING has scientifically recorded the ancient buildings, urban features and living scenes of Song dynasty. Therefore, it is an important way to obtain the basis of design from the Song calligraphy and Song paintings.
Inspiration
This project creates the spatial pattern of multi-sided landscape and multiple courtyards, forming a direct dialogue between architecture and nature. The courtyard presents a natural openness while giving consideration to privacy. The project classifies the courtyards with the traditional Chinese garden landscape borrowing approach, thus the sequence between the private and public courtyards is more variable, which is closer to be in line with the contemporary aesthetic needs.
Project Duration
The project started in June 2018 and finished in October 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Operation Flow
This project combines the traditional residential form and the contemporary construction technology. From the perspective of cost and natural resources, the use of traditional Chinese style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wooden structure can perfectly present the beautiful form of traditional buildings, ensures the performance of construction, reasonable cost and construction cycle, it can be widely used in the contemporary practice of traditional Chinese style buildings.
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