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Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba by Peng Xiao

Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba by Peng Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Ibhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award in Uyilo lweZakhiwo, Isakhiwo kunye neMilo Competition Category.


IbhronziUyilo lweZakhiwo· 2022

Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba

by Peng Xiao

Client: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

Ibhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award Winner in Uyilo lweZakhiwo Category

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The Design

About Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba

Isicatshulwa Sencwadi: I-Seal sisakhiwo sovimba esikwiWuhan, eHubei, eTshayina. Isakhiwo sinendawo yesiseko esipheleleyo engange-57,487 eesikwere yeemitha kunye nobude obungange-66 yeemitha. Uhlobo lomatsha idibanisa inqaba kunye nesiseko, nto leyo ekhulula indawo ekwabelwana ngayo kwiiflowa ezisezantsi kwaye ibeke uvimba wovimba kwiiflowa eziphezulu. Iindlela zokuhamba zoluntu kunye nezobungcali zahlukanisiwe. Ubuso besakhiwo bufumana ingcamango kwisitampu saseTshayina kwaye bubonisa umzila-xesha weziganeko zembali zesixeko. Kusetyenziswa izinto zendawo kunye neteknoloji ezizantsi kumashwa e-carbon. Iholo elinemisebenzi emininzi kunye negumbi lentlanganiso elikhulu zivulelekile kuluntu.

The Recognition

About the Ibhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award

Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba ngumphumeleli weIbhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award, ukuqatshelwa okuhlonitshwayo kakhulu okunikwa imiyilo ephawulekayo eyahlukaniswa kukuyila, ubukrelekrele nobukrelekrele. Abaphumeleleyo beBhronzi ziimveliso ezinobuchule obukhulu nezidala ngokumangalisayo ezingqina amava aphangaleleyo, ukucinga nokwazi ukuzenzela kwabayili bazo. Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba iyathenjwa ukuba ibe yimpahla exatyiswa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo enobungcali obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha. Lo myilo uphumeleleyo weIbhaso Lebhronzi le-A' Design Award ubandakanya iindlela ezilungileyo kakhulu kubugcisa, inzululwazi, uyilo kunye nobuchwephesha kwaye ugqwesile ngenxa yokunikela ingqalelo kwiinkcukacha. Seal Umsebenzi Ophambili: Isakhiwo Sovimba iyanelisa iimfuno ngokumangalisayo, ichukumisa iinqwenelo, ikhwebela iimvakalelo kwaye itsala umdla.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.
Dimensions & Packaging
Total Land Area: 13291 square meters
Gross Floor Area: 57487 square meters
Height:66 meters
Tags
culture sharing space ecologic
Production Technology
City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city.
Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.
Design Challenge
Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.
Research
Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.
Inspiration
Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern.
Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates.
Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.
Project Duration
The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Operation Flow
The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.
Team Members
Director:
Xiao peng, Zhang songmin
Team members:
Li li, Liu fengqi, Li hongsheng, Shu xiaoling, Ge xiang, Li dongmei, Peng yiqi, Ye xin, Chen junyu, Wu jiangtao, Zhen mengdi, Zhang di, Xiong xiaoping

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