Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan

Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Ibhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award in Uyilo lweNdawo yangaPhakathi kunye noMboniso Competition Category.

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Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi

by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan

Client: Vantree Design

Ibhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award Winner in Ingaphakathi Category

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The Design

About Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi

Iziko leRekhodi zeNkcubeko zaseJinan lithala leencwadi elingaphakathi elikwiSithili saseLixia, kwiPhondo laseShandong, eJinan. Eli thala leencwadi lelinye lweendawo ezisibhozo ezikwiziko leenkcubeko nezirekhodi kwaye lithatha umgangatho wesibini ukuya kowesine ngaseningizimu-ntshonalanga yesakhiwo. Uyilo luhlela ngokutsha ukuhamba kwabantu, lulungisa indawo yesitepesi esihambayo kwaye lubumba ngokutsha unxweme lwendlu ephakathi. Iziqhotyoshelo zeglasi zivula imibono phakathi kweendawo kwaye zidala imo yokufunda ezolileyo. Isiphumo yindawo yokwabelana apho abemi beminyaka eyahlukeneyo bangafunda, badibane kwaye bathabathe inxaxheba kwimisebenzi yenkcubeko.

The Recognition

About the Ibhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award

Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi ngumphumeleli weIbhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award, ukuqatshelwa okuhlonitshwayo ngokungaqhelekanga okunikwa imiyilo yomgangatho ophezulu, entle nechukumisayo. Abaphumeleleyo beSilivere ziimveliso ezikhazimlayo kakhulu nezidala kakhulu ezibonisa ubungcali obuphawulekayo, italente nobukrelekrele babayili bazo. Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi iyathenjwa ukuba ibe ngumsebenzi omhle womzekelo, onobungcali obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha ezinzulu. Lo myilo uphumeleleyo weIbhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award yimveliso ebonakalayo kakhulu, ethandwayo enceda kwaye inyusa imida yobugcisa, inzululwazi, uyilo kunye nobuchwephesha. Jinan Cultural Archives Center Primary Function: Uyilo Lwangaphakathi Lwethala Leencwadi yimveliso enomona omkhulu kuyo evusa iinqwenelo, izisa iimvakalelo ezintle kwaye ivuselela ukumangaliswa nokumangala.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The project is located in Lixia District of Jinan, Shandong Province, surrounded by cultural, educational and creative commercial resources. As one of the eight venues of the cultural and archives center, the library occupies the 2nd to 4th floors on the southwest side of the center. In order to provide residents of different ages with an emerging library model with a diversified human scale, we have built the library into a shared space.
Dimensions & Packaging: Reconstruction means disassembling and reorganizing and restructuring. The structure is not limited to space, but also the reorganization of behavior and sight. In order to realize the creation of shared space, the public space of the existing building needs to be split, reorganized and adjusted, and the streamlines must be sorted out and adjusted.
Tags: shared knowledge, reconstruction, cultural carrier
Production Technology: In the library block, we analyze and reconstruct the original situation to find pointcuts. After clarifying the overall optimization direction, through the analysis of the functions and structure of the traditional library, the functions and streamlines’ relationships among them were reorganized and constructed.
On the second to fourth floors, we integrated the overall streamlines, adjusted the position of the escalator, pushed and pulled the edge of the library atrium without affecting the streamlines, and the use of glass perspective to reduce the urgency of reading space and enrich people's space experience.
Design Challenge: NONE
Research: As a very iconic urban cultural building, the designer hopes that this project can become a center that gathers local residents, which can provide people with different scales of communication and reading space, build a shared community, promote people's sharing and communication, and connect the future of the city. It will become a carrier for the spread of Jinan culture, inheriting traditions and having distinctive characteristics of the times.
Inspiration: In response to the theme of sharing and the trend of the era, we started from people's perception and experience, optimized the sight relationship in the space, placed space nodes, added functional spaces, reorganized people's social behavior, and promoted the realization of "shared knowledge".
Project Duration: The project started in September 2019 and finished in June 2021 in Jinan, Shandong Province.
Operation Flow: As a very iconic urban cultural building, we hope to create a center that gathers local residents. The library provides a place for residents to develop a good reading habit, and facilitates them to carry out various social, cultural, entertainment, and sports activities, and builds sharing community.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Vantree Design.
Team Members: Lead Designer: Muchuan Xu
Designer: Minxi Cai
Designer: Xin Yan
Designer: Jingyi Zhao
Designer: Qijun Lu
Designer: Shangzhao Yang
Designer: Xiaofeng Li
Designer: Zhongning Zhang
Designer: Guanbao Ye
Image Credits: Copyrights belong to Vantree Design.