Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建筑 by Xin Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

铜建筑· 2020

Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建筑

by Xin Wu

Client: MadeMake Architects

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

8,827

Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #101277

Visit Site View at A' Design Award Press Release Award Badge

Colors

The Design

About Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建筑

龙湖·舍境是位于中国重庆的住宅建筑群。其平面布局将客厅、餐厅与卧室环绕于一处半开放式庭院四周，形成6.2米的双层通高空间。每户由此获得超过30平方米的室外空间，并改善了相邻房间的通风条件。庭院二层不设窗洞，以保护住户隐私。立面以水平向白色铝板与竖向构件及玻璃幕墙相互交织。混凝土屋面板之上覆以至少600毫米厚的种植土，为私家空中花园提供支撑。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建筑是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建筑将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建筑出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Crosswise decorative lines support those courtyards like strong arms. Transformation between organic and mechanical is so smooth that they are almost integrated. There are only two details of the building are rather complex to build, the first one is the distinguished entrance, and the other is the cornices continued from lower parts. This purpose could achieve a product conform to local style. A unique flat with big courtyard was innovated and promoted to the market.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 75032 square meters. The designers studied the formula of the cover earth and decided on a minimum of 600 millimeters depth soil above concrete roofing slabs in order to introduce as many kinds of planets as possible. So that every family can own their individual sky garden.
Tags: Architectural Design, Longfor Properties, Modern, Semi-open, Courtyard, Residential, Natural
Production Technology: In the facade design, the designers created a rhythm by weaving horizontal and vertical components together which especially enhanced the horizontal white aluminum plates with different lengths. Between those delicate lines, they embed curtain walls that look like a series of transparent boxes. They set the lines and a sense of space off from the rear. Moreover, taking advantage of crosswise lines, some slight changes were made to shape the hallway and Chinese roofing cornices.
Design Challenge: In this project, one of the key difficulties refers to the design of curtain walls. Although the designers suppose to consider as designing residential exterior, they rather get precedence from public buildings. In terms of aluminum plates, they need to define their precise position and the approximate proportion in relationship to the rest of the building.
Research: The designers believe to see more and more national wide and similar designs drive from the samples. To communicate with other parties adequately and confirm every component at the site helped the construction process and all the implements organized. The patient collaboration and ultimate final presence have exceeded a market behavior, but an example for Chinese residential.
Inspiration: This project had been through a long-term study of the site level difference and specifically analysis of the character the mountainous landscape and the local living culture. The team was spread out to finish personal site explorations, and city researches. Then, they gave multiple plans from general ones to something novel. Finally, designers come up with a model of "big community with microsystems".
Project Duration: The project started in October 2017 in Chongqing and finished in January 2020 in Chongqing.
Operation Flow: To deduct the existence of artificial, rooms are installed with fully foldable doors that people could be exposed to the landscape in the courtyard.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Xin Wu, 2020.
Team Members: Xin Wu
Liang Du
Bin Wang
Xiongxingzi Luo
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Quan Liang, Longfor Dwell Realm, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Quan Liang, Longfor Dwell Realm, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Quan Liang, Longfor Dwell Realm, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Quan Liang, Longfor Dwell Realm, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Quan Liang, Longfor Dwell Realm, 2019.