Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2020
Shanxiao Sales Pavilion Sales Office
by Larry Wen
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Aoe
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 59,428
- Verification code EDE2C53B4B · Verify this award
About Shanxiao Sales Pavilion Sales Office
The designer aimed for visitors to experience the artistic conception of ‘hidden in nature.’ the entire project has two parts, the sales office and the commercial area. the sales office is a smaller part of the building, but is executed with an exquisite and delicate aesthetic. it is naturally engraved and hidden in nature, thus highlighting the concept of ‘seclusion’.
Emerging from traditions of contemplative architecture that seek harmony between constructed form and natural landscape, Qun Wen's Shanxiao Sales Pavilion Sales Office represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary spatial design that merits careful consideration for its synthesis of geometric precision and organic expressiveness. The work appears to engage with longstanding East Asian architectural philosophies wherein built environments function as frames for experiencing nature rather than barriers against it, a principle manifest here through the deployment of an extensive reflecting pool that visually doubles the pavilion while connecting earth to sky through liquid mirror. The technical accomplishment evidenced in this composition demonstrates sophisticated understanding of structural glazing systems, allowing the transparent glass envelope to achieve remarkable visual lightness while containing the dramatic sculptural masses within. These interior white forms, with their horizontal stratification suggesting geological strata or clouds captured in material form, introduce biomorphic qualities that soften the orthogonal rigor of the containing volume, creating productive dialogue between rational and intuitive formal languages. The chromatic restraint exercised throughout, limiting the palette to whites, grays, and the borrowed colors of landscape and sky, suggests confidence in spatial and formal composition rather than reliance upon chromatic drama. One might observe how the stillness of the water surface becomes essential to the architectural experience, transforming a single building into an doubled image that speaks to themes of reflection, contemplation, and the fluid boundary between reality and representation. The work invites viewers to consider how architecture might function as apparatus for heightened perception, framing moments of visual poetry within the flow of daily commercial activity.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The designer refined the traditional architectural culture and natural landscape of Nanshan as the main tempo, and used modern technical language and artistic creation techniques to transform it into our architectural language, so that visitors can experience the artistic conception of hidden in the nature.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 19800mm x Depth 19800mm x Height 12400mm
- Tags
- curtain wall, fog, poetry, lifestyle
- Production Technology
- The facade uses the perforated plate as the louver to protect the sunshine, and the shape of louver is inspired by the cloud of Nanshan. The perforated leaves float around the curtain wall. It resembles a long scroll landscape painting, and its changes show the shape of the clouds and fog that stretches in the Nanshan. The glass curtain walls with gradual mist and perforated louvers are integrated so that the whole building seems floating in the clouds.
- Design Challenge
- The project is located in Nanshan, Chongqing. Nanshan located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Chongqing which has a wealth of tourism resources including natural scenery, cultural landscape and specialties. In recent years, Nanshan has successively appeared some commercial buildings with cultural connotations such as bookstores and homestays. These buildings are simple in design and distinctive in shape, which has made Nanshan gradually become a synonym for elegant and introverted. And its artistic conception is correspond to Tao's poetry.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2018 and finished in August 2019 in Chongqing, China.
- Operation Flow
- As a major theoretical perspective within sociology, symbolic interaction helps us understand how the designed physical environment and the self are intertwined, with one potentially influencing and finding expression in the other; how architecture contains and communicates our shared symbols; and how we assign agency to some of our designed physical environment, which then invites in a different kind of self-reflection.
- Research
- At the same time, there are spraying device will create fog around the building everyday. It makes the natural fog become another layer facade for the building, creating a wonderland of Nanshan. The building is not only an architecture but a cultural event.
- Inspiration
- The entire project has two parts, the sales office and the commercial part. The sales office has small scale but exquisite and delicate. It is naturally engraved and hidden in nature, thus highlighting the concept of seclusion.
- Image Credits
- Ligang Huang