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Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi by Jiahua Xu

Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi by Jiahua Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Bronz Ödülü in Mimarlık, Bina ve Yapı Tasarımı Competition Category.


BronzMimarlık· 2025

Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi

by Jiahua Xu

Client: Archtic

A' Design Award Bronz Ödülü Winner in Mimarlık Category

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The Design

About Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi

Kitap Metni: Lilong Arcade Toplum Merkezi, geleneksel Şanghay lilong sokağını ve arcade (kemeraltı) mekânını modern bir kamusal alan olarak yeniden yorumluyor. Tasarım; toplum toplantıları, günlük etkinlikler, sergiler ve sosyal alışveriş için açık, esnek ve kolay erişilebilir alanlar oluşturuyor. Yerel kentsel hafızaya ve insan ölçeğine saygı gösterirken; kültürel kullanım, mahalle bağlantısı ve kamusal yaşam için net ve çağdaş bir mekân sunuyor.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Bronz Ödülü

Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi, A' Design Award Bronz Ödülü kazananıdır; bu, yaratıcılık, buluş gücü ve kurnazlıkla öne çıkan olağanüstü tasarımlara verilen son derece prestijli bir tanınırlıktır. Bronz kazananlar, tasarımcılarının engin deneyimini, hayal gücünü ve becerikliliğini doğrulayan fazlasıyla yetenekli ve çarpıcı biçimde yaratıcı nesnelerdir. Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi, çok itibar gören, hayranlıkla izlenen ve sevilen, dikkat çekici derecede profesyonel ve yenilikçi bir nesne olması beklenir. A' Design Award Bronz Ödülü kazanan bu tasarım, sanat, bilim, tasarım ve teknolojideki en iyi uygulamaları bünyesinde barındırır ve ayrıntıya gösterdiği özenle mükemmeldir. Lilong Arcade Birincil İşlev: Toplum Merkezi ihtiyaçları muhteşem biçimde karşılar, arzulara dokunur, duyguları büyüler ve merakı çeker.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
"Lilong Arcade" embraces the concept of integrating public spaces with historical features while meeting modern needs.
Flexible layouts maximize space usage, blending fixed and mobile areas to accommodate diverse community needs.
The facade design marries historical elements with modern materials, maintaining harmony with the surrounding architecture while creating a welcoming, vibrant environment that supports public engagement.
Dimensions & Packaging
Plot area:937m²

Gross Floor Area: 1677m²

Overall outdoor activity: 478.6m²

Citizen activity center: 154.6m²
F&B Retail: 202.5m²
Elderly activity center: 110.3m²
Healthcare: 288.5m²
Children's activity and Daycare: 374.3m²
Sports: 288.5m²
Flexible: 258.4m²
Tags
community, social, civic, activity, wellness, urban, historic district, flexibility
Production Technology
Since the reconstruction cannot break through the existing building 3D boundary, the original building height is reused in accordance with the principle of economy and practicality.
The small column span shallow beam are used to achieve span of 4.5-6 meters.
An atrium is set inside the building to enhance the lighting while eliminating the sense of space cramped.
The visual corridor perpendicular to Main Road naturally extends to the depths of the base, leading the direction of the axis network system.
Design Challenge
Since the reconstruction cannot break through the three-dimensional boundary, the building height cannot be greatly increased. As for the problem of insufficient building height (about 3.5 meters), the small column span shallow beam and partial height treatment are used to achieve: the conventional column span is 4.5-6 meters, and the local span is increased to enhance the permeability of the space.
Research
The project is located in Changning District, Shanghai, with a profound cultural heritage of foreign culture and local traditions.

The facade of the project building adopts a modern eclectic arcade form, which pays tribute to the traditional style. The arcade not only gives the building a timeless beauty, but also increases the transparency by providing a gray space for citizens to interact.

The exterior wall of the building adopts light-colored bricks to be unified with the surrounding style, the floor-to-ceiling glass windows fill the interior space with natural light, enhancing the openness and transparency of the building.
Inspiration
The design concept of "Lilong Arcade" aims to adopt the "arcade", an architectural motif with publicness and sharing, to integrate historical features while showing the contemporaryity, making the building a natural extension of the walkable street system.
The project revolves around the principles of serving the people, adapting to local conditions, and flexible adaptation, creating a rich and high-quality service and activity space for citizens in the limited existing space.
Project Duration
The project started in April 2024 in Shanghai and finished in August 2024
Operation Flow
To fully realize the functionality of various spaces in the limited space, a combination of fixed space + flexible space is adopt. That is, in addition to the spaces that rely on equipment such as the service center, community canteen, ect, most of the activities and learning places are optimized into flex spaces through operation. This not only helps the space allocation within the project, but also helps promote the fair and efficient allocation of public resources.

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