Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2021
Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Arch-Age-Design (AAD)
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,114
- Verification code 7260864315 · Verify this award
About Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center
Yinchuan Sunac City is a sales center built on the bank of Gedi Lake in Yinchuan, China. The building follows a minimalist approach, with a ring shaped volume and curved lines that follow the shoreline. The half-moon shaped roof tilts toward the lake and connects to a bridge. Slender perforated columns support the two wings of the roof. Built-in light strips glow in the evening. Perforated panels carry holes shaped after the Malan flower, the city flower of Yinchuan. A transparent glass curtain wall faces the lake. The project area is 450 square meters.
Within the evolving discourse of contemporary architectural practice, Arch-Age-Design (AAD)'s Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center represents a compelling meditation on the relationship between built form and natural landscape, demonstrating how thoughtfully conceived architecture might serve as a catalyst for environmental and experiential integration rather than mere functional shelter. The structure's distinctive elliptical configuration, rendered in luminous white materials that appear to possess an almost ethereal weightlessness, suggests an engagement with parametric design methodologies while simultaneously evoking organic natural forms such as flowing water, unfurling leaves, or the graceful arc of bird wings in flight. The building's positioning at the threshold between expansive lake waters and verdant parkland creates a liminal condition that invites contemplation of boundaries between natural and constructed environments, fluid and solid states, open and enclosed spaces. Technical accomplishment manifests in the seamless integration of sweeping curved surfaces, the sophisticated handling of the ring structure that appears to float above its landscape setting, and the extension of ribbon-like appendages that create covered pathways connecting interior programming to exterior landscape amenities. The aerial vantage point from which this image was captured reveals the compositional intelligence underlying the site planning, where the building serves as a focal anchor within a carefully orchestrated sequence of landscape zones progressing from dense urban fabric through parkland buffer to water's edge. Thematic resonances emerge around ideas of sanctuary, threshold, and the age-old architectural aspiration to create spaces of respite and beauty within the complexity of urban life. The work invites consideration of how architecture might embody aspirations for harmony between human habitation and natural systems, and how sculptural form might elevate the everyday experience of commercial spaces into something approaching the transcendent.
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- Unique Properties
- The project goes for a minimalistic design approach. The circular blocks and soft and neat curved elements are integrated into the field design, resembling a strand of silk floating on the lake to embrace Gedi Lake in a natural and elegant way. The half-moon shaped roof tilts to and extends toward the Lake. The perforated slender columns are orderly scattered under the two wings of the roof. The built-in light strips glow in the evening, making the roof look like lifted up and suspended in the sky.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project area is 450 square meter.
- Tags
- Yinchuan, minimalistic, sales center, Gedi Lake, Malan flowers, leaving blanks, civil cultural center
- Production Technology
- The artificial stone wall corresponds to the perforated panel curtain wall. The shape of holes on the perforated panel is customized according to Malan flowers, Yinchuan's city flower. The panel splice forms two curved lines, echoing the ripples of the Lake and increasing the layers of light and shadows. The facade facing the lake adopts the transparent tempered hollow glass curtain wall, matched with pear white roofing aluminum panels, looking crystal and lightweight.
- Design Challenge
- The slanting half-moon-shaped rooftop caused the variation of structural beams, and the two large overhangs needed to be independent from the main rooftop structure. So how to ensure the integrity and lightness of the rooftop became the biggest challenge. The architects used curtain walls as envelope to weaken the splicing relationship between the two wings and main rooftop structure, and adopted slim perforated pillars to support the wings, thereby making the rooftop "float" above water.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2019 and finished in July 2020 in Yinchuan, China
- Operation Flow
- The building floats on the lakeside in a ring shape, perfectly blending into the overall planning of the park. The roof is slanted towards the water surface of the lake, and connects to the bridge. It blurs the boundary between the building space and the lake, making people closer to nature. The transparent tempered hollow glass curtain wall is used on the facade facing the lake, which is light and transparent, and embraces the outdoor scenes. Visitors can sit around the lake and enjoy the view.
- Research
- The project makes full use of the resources of the surrounding natural environment, and uses contemporary techniques to connect man and nature, integrating the present environment with time, space and light as the link. In such context, the architecture becomes one part of the park's landscape.
- Inspiration
- The project is located on the bank of Gedi Lake, in the eastern area of Yinchuan city. The construction of the park is gradually becoming the city's iconic exhibition hall and the landmark. It functions as a sales center but later as a civil cultural center open to the city. The design should create a landmark while respecting nature. It integrates Yinchuan's profound culture and history with regional characteristics, making it one of the city's iconic buildings.
- Image Credits
- Image# 1-3: ArchiTranslator
Image# 4-5: SHRIMP STUDIO
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