Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2023
Sunac Snow Park Ski Resort
by Gao Shanxing
- A' Design Award 2023 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Gdf Ltd
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 28,842
- Verification code 6BBCE3F798 · Verify this award
About Sunac Snow Park Ski Resort
With its huge building volume, unique architectural shape, and professional ski track, Sunac Snow Park not only naturally integrates into the surrounding mountains of Dujiangyan, but also deeply blends into the lives of ice and snow lovers. At the same time, combined with regional characteristics, with Bashu culture as the core, cultural symbols, and architectural design are integrated to create a landmark building with unique regional characteristics.
This architectural composition, which might be contemplated under a title such as Frozen Flow or Crystalline Horizons, represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary recreational architecture that synthesizes technological innovation with poetic formal expression. The work emerges from a trajectory of parametric and organic modernist practice that has transformed architectural possibility through computational design and advanced fabrication technologies, situating itself within a lineage that includes the fluid geometries pioneered by visionary practitioners of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The facade treatment demonstrates exceptional compositional sophistication through its orchestration of horizontal banding that creates visual rhythm while accommodating the complex programmatic requirements of an indoor winter sports facility, the alternating white and gray panels suggesting the stratification of snow accumulation or the layered formations of glacial ice. The chromatic restraint of the predominantly achromatic palette achieves elegant unity while allowing strategic color accents to function as wayfinding elements and visual punctuation, the coral spiral at left introducing organic warmth against the cool technological precision of the primary envelope. Technical accomplishment manifests in the seamless integration of curved panel systems, the precision of joints and transitions, and the successful resolution of complex three-dimensional geometry into buildable assemblies. The hexagonal perforations embedded within select facade zones introduce porosity and pattern that reference both natural crystalline structures and contemporary computational aesthetics, creating dialogue between solid and void, opacity and transparency. Thematically, the work celebrates the human capacity to create environments for joy and recreation, transforming architectural shelter into experiential landscape that promises adventure and delight within its protective embrace. The sweeping forms suggest movement and velocity appropriate to its winter sports program while simultaneously conveying welcome and accessibility through the generous forecourt and human-scaled entrance zone. One might contemplate how architecture achieves its most profound effects when it transcends mere shelter to become an embodiment of aspiration and collective celebration.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- As one of the largest indoor ski resorts in the world,Chengdu Sunac Snow Park is located in Sunac Cultural Tourism City of Dujiangyan City,and has become a new landmark of local culture with a super large-scale building.The overall design concept uses "The auspicious clouds of Kang Tibetan" as the imagery,absorbing the momentum of moving clouds and flowing water,and combining the elements of Sichuan opera facial makeup to create a modern image.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Project size: 3956813 sq. ft
- Tags
- locality,cultural symbols,parametric design,huge building volume
- Production Technology
- The difficulty of design is to achieve complete and coherent patterns in oversized buildings,while fully fitting the structure and achieving cost control.The design uses rhino software to accurately model to the depth of processing.The concave relationship of different separation aluminum plates and the treatment of concave lamps in the hexagonal shape of aluminum plates both take into account the precise layering logic relationship,and finally realize them precisely in the super-large-scale buildings.
- Design Challenge
- In order to realize the design concept of drawing Facial Mask,the design technology requirements are very precise to achieve complex curve depiction and color separation to achieve concave lighting and other effects on the architectural form which is already a curve.The construction process requires the same precision of space three-dimensional positioning, and needs to cross the deformation seam,overcome the lack of precision of civil construction and other problems,and finally achieve perfect results.
- Project Duration
- The project was completed on May 18,2020 in Chengdu,China,and officially opened on June 30,2020.
- Operation Flow
- Sunac Snow Park adds a new leisure spot for skiing and recreational water to subtropical Chengdu, and has become a new cultural landmark with its oversized architecture.Facial Mask's image highlights Chengdu's cultural heritage and modernity,further enhancing the quality of Chengdu's "leisure capital",better publicizing Chengdu and spreading local culture.
- Research
- Like artisans drawing on Facial Mask,the design uses rhino software to draw on the epidermis of an oversized building.The base controllable surface is divided into two parts of water and ski,which are drawn separately and then fitted back to the building form.In 3D to achieve construction feasible and easy to control the quality of the split board treatment.In the super-scale to deal with a variety of seams,and across the civil structure of the seam,and finally in the construction space three-dimensional positioning to achieve elegant architectural effects,to achieve the perfect fusion of art and technology.
- Inspiration
- We fully ingeniously integrate the unique regional national cultural symbols into the building,and make it fully organically integrated with the natural environment.With the image of "The auspicious clouds of Kang Tibetan",it absorbs the momentum of moving clouds and flowing water,and combines the Sichuan Opera mask elements deeply rooted in the cultural soil of Bashu with a long history to create a contemporary regional iconic image.
- Image Credits
- Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer Wu Qingshan,2021
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