Xizhimen Port Ilé Àwọn Yàrá Ìgbélé by Zhe Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award in Àpẹẹrẹ Ìkọ́lé, Ilé àti Ètò Competition Category.
FàdákàÌkọ́lé· 2022
Xizhimen Port Ilé Àwọn Yàrá Ìgbélé
by Zhe Wang
Client: Beijing Sza Architectural Design Consultant
Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award Winner in Ìkọ́lé Category
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About Xizhimen Port Ilé Àwọn Yàrá Ìgbélé
Xizhimen Port jẹ́ ilé àwọn yàrá ìgbélé ní ìlú Beijing, ní orílẹ̀-èdè China. Wọ́n kọ́ ilé onípele mẹ́wàá yìí ní àwọn ọdún 1980, tí wọ́n sì tún ṣe rẹ̀ lẹ́yìn náà fún àwọn ọ̀dọ́ tó ń gbé ní ìlú. Àwọn férémù fèrèsé aluminium tí ó yọ jáde láti ara ògiri òde ni ó dá ojú ilé tuntun náà. Àwọn férémù náà ṣètò àwọn ọ̀pá àti òpó tí ó hàn síta láti inú ilé ìpilẹ̀ṣẹ̀ náà, wọ́n sì pèsè àyè fún ẹ̀rọ atẹ́gùn tútù ti yàrá kọ̀ọ̀kan. Nínú férémù kọ̀ọ̀kan, àwọ̀ náà yí padà láti àwọ̀ ọsàn ní òkè sí àwọ̀ ododo pálépálé ní ìsàlẹ̀. Àwọn fèrèsé tí a fi kún ògiri ìhà ìlà oòrùn àti ìhà ìwọ̀ oòrùn mú ìmọ́lẹ̀ ọ̀sán pọ̀ sí i ní ìdá àádọ́ta nínú ọgọ́rùn-ún.
The Recognition
About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award
Xizhimen Port Ilé Àwọn Yàrá Ìgbélé jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ onípọ̀nlé lọ́nà àrà ọ̀tọ̀ tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe ìpele gíga jùlọ tó dára tó sì ń kan ọkàn. Àwọn olùborí Fàdákà jẹ́ àwọn iṣẹ́ tó ń tàn yòò gidigidi tó sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá púpọ̀ tí wọ́n ń ṣàfihàn ìmọ̀ ìjìnlẹ̀, ẹ̀bùn àti ìmọ̀ràn àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé Xizhimen Port Ilé Àwọn Yàrá Ìgbélé yóò jẹ́ iṣẹ́ àgbàyanu, àpẹẹrẹ rere, ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun jinlẹ̀. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award yìí jẹ́ ohun ìmúṣẹ̀dá tó hàn gbangba gidigidi tí a mọrírì tó ń ṣe anfàní tó sì ń tì ààlà iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ síwájú. Xizhimen Port Ilé Àwọn Yàrá Ìgbélé jẹ́ ẹ̀dá tí ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ń ṣe ìlara, tó ń jí ìfẹ́ inú, tó ń mú ìmọ̀lára rere wá tó sì ń jí ìyàlẹ́nu àti ìyanu.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- One's residence and clothing represent a person's temperament. Apartments designed to inspire innovative young people naturally need a vibrant, attractive facade. The design organizes the variously spaced exposed beams and columns on the original facade while providing the housing for each room’s AC unit. The new facade was designed as a series of aluminum window frames projecting out from the exterior wall. The scale of the window frames increases at the building corner as if the entire building were twisting on the square as a vivid urban sculpture.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Floors: 10-story
Site Area: 2872sqm
Total Area:11000sqm - Tags
- Architecture renovation, Facade design, Residential, Apartment
- Production Technology
- The architect made different adjustments to each floor. By adding windows on the east and west side wall at typical floors, a more active urban facade is presented, at the same time, daylighting for each floor is increased by 50%. It provides flexible and private spaces for young tenants within a limited building area. The core of the room unit layout at how to provide customers with a safe and comfortable room space under the premise of limited space.
- Design Challenge
- The development of the Xizhimen Port Apartments was driven by the challenge of balancing the existing structural conditions of the 10-story building constructed in the 1980s with bold architectural expression, current building technologies, and efficient design. The original building has a large number of reinforced beams and columns exposed on the facade with variant spacing; also the renovated facade needs to find space for the AC unit of each room. So the architect designed an aluminum window frame projecting out from the exterior wall. The abundant aluminum window covers are like a horizontal combination of "Pandora's Boxes", using rhythmic changes to meet the objective functional requirements of the building.
- Research
- This building carries many common memories of the "same song" KTV, which is also one of its old identities. The outdated image, depressed tonality, and precipitated vicissitudes of this existing building are no longer in line with these young people who are trying to be innovative in the new era. Upgrading the appearance of the old buildings, reshaping the image of the city, stimulating the vitality of the community, and also providing urban young people with a warm home with a story and a dream, become a new topic faced by this project.
- Inspiration
- As a trendy apartment for innovative young people, its appearance needs to jump out of the surrounding old community environment, but can not affect the harmonious coexistence. Inspired by the scenery of the lunar eclipse, the facade is designed with bright colors which bring rich expression. The inside of the window sleeve changes from orange at the top to pale yellow at the bottom, like the color spectrum of the lunar eclipse, and also celebrating Beijing's golden autumn while the Port Apartment opens in October.
- Project Duration
- This project completed in Oct. 2018 in Beijing, China.
- Operation Flow
- The vibrant facade of the apartment was designed to inspire its residents of innovative young people as a new model for urban renewal and architectural renovation. With the development of the city to a certain stage, renewal design is bound to gradually become the main trend of urban development. Xizhimen Port Apartment is an exploration, hoping to gradually practice another way of urban renewal in addition to the point type experimental project and the surface type "large-scale demolition and construction".
- Team Members
- Wang Zhe
Shi Wei
Wen Zewei
Wang Meilin
Zhang Yan
Han Qi
Hong Wei - Image Credits
- Photography: Jin Weiqi
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