Folding Garden 社区中心 by Zhubo Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

银建筑· 2022

Folding Garden 社区中心

by Zhubo Design

Client: Zhubo Design CO., LTD.

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Folding Garden 社区中心

折园是一座位于中国北京的社区中心。一道连续的墙体以线性而曲折的路径穿越场地，既塑造出园林景致，又充当建筑的支撑结构，由此形成完整无柱的室内空间。一条南北向的走廊沿中轴串联起三进庭院。建筑外表覆以流动感的砖砌肌理，令人联想到林中之山。下沉庭院在紧凑的用地上增添了可用空间。总用地面积为6421平方米，建筑面积为1403平方米。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Folding Garden 社区中心是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Folding Garden 社区中心将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Folding Garden 社区中心是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: "All in one go" is the highest state of Chinese painting since ancient times. We use a continuous wall to cut across the site. The linear and zigzag wall not only shapes the garden, but also serves as the supporting structure itself, creating a coherent indoor column-free space. at the same time, the corridor space that runs through the north and the south connects three scattered courtyard spaces in one go. Therefore, the building is also called "Folding Garden".
Dimensions & Packaging: Total land area: 6421 Square meter.
Total construction area: 1403 Square meter.
Floor area ratio: 0.22.
Building height: 5.5M.
Number of floors: 1 floor above ground and 1 floor underground.
Tags: public service building, community center, Zhubo design, garden building, special-shaped building
Production Technology: The folding garden is covered by fluctuating flowing bricks, resembling a mountain in the forest.When the sun rises higher than the tree, shines on the flowing wall, there will appear a sequence of the light: gorgeous forest, shining green square, gorgeous straight eave, shining sinking courtyard. With the sun light, we sculptured a beautiful full viewed space scenery into a free geometry mountain.
Design Challenge: Due to the limited cost of the project and the heavier historical context, we have been trying to find a value standard between economy and practicality, so as to more accurately convey the atmosphere of the architect‘s ideal cultural place and make the space available for better service.
Research: Folding garden inherits the historical context of the site. The fundamental values of low-carbon, environmental protection and energy conservation in the building are dealt with in a way of dialogue with nature stance. Due to the scarcity and preciousness of land resources, the building also uses sunken courtyards to shape space, respects a free and open space value system, and uses this to organize community and urban public life.
Inspiration: Folding Garden is located in Beijing. How to inherit the traditional royal construction of the site, and at the same time make a clever translation of the huge garden system in a relatively compact space, is what architect are trying to answer in this "Garden Making Practice" the question is. The project hope to use pure geometric form to construct a place full of natural tension in the "folding garden".
Project Duration: The project started in 2017 in Beijing and finished in 2018.
Operation Flow: The courtyard is built around a straight central axis, and the internal and external relations of the three-entry courtyard are interchanged along the central axis.The one-stop path to the garden not only increases the user's travel distance , but also presents different visual experiences of the same garden from different angles—just as "there is a landscape in the garden, and there is a garden in the landscape".
Team Members: Design Director: Yang Weizhong.
Design Creator: Xia Chong.
Design team: Tang Dynasty Wen, Su Chudu, Yang Mengchuan, Strahinja Petrovic
Image Credits: [ Image#1：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,
2019], [ Image#2：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019], [ Image#3：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019], [ Image#4：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019], [ Image#5：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019]