Yongning Station 小型城市综合体 by Yijia Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 银奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

银建筑· 2020

Yongning Station 小型城市综合体

by Yijia Hu

Client: Hu Yijia

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Yongning Station 小型城市综合体

永宁驿站是位于中国永宁的一处小型城市综合体。建筑以公共卫生间为主要功能，并结合休闲、展览等配套服务。建筑在城市与景观之间开启了一条视觉通廊，平面形成形如数字"八"的形态。沿参观路线，左侧是面向河流的公共展厅，右侧是内向型的公共卫生间区域，一条狭长的廊道穿行于桂花树之间。屏风是组织空间、框取景致的关键元素。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Yongning Station 小型城市综合体是 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Yongning Station 小型城市综合体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。Yongning Station 小型城市综合体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: Yongning Station is an urban MINI complex with public toilets as the main function and combined with leisure, exhibition and other supporting services.
The public exhibition hall enjoys an open view to the river. The designers transformed the thickness of the "screen" into a three-dimensional "screen niche" of its own system. The physical part conceals service functions such as sales, washing and storage, etc., and the white window holes become the eyes to seize the changing scenery of nature.
Dimensions & Packaging: Category: urban MINI complex
Area: 450sqm
plot ratio: 0.3
Tags: Station, public exhibition hall, public toilet, leisure, Hu Yijia
Production Technology: The public toilet is the core interpretation of the concept of "returning to public private space". Internally, the plane is arranged according to the modulus of 300mm, and functional modules such as wall column network, bathroom equipment, hvac and exhaust air are installed on this chassis. The standard modular unit limits the body space of the user's smallest unit to minimize the private space.
Design Challenge: The challenge was how to combine openness of public area and privacy of toilet area.
"Screen" was used as a key element to organize space and incorporate scenery. In the exhibition hall that enjoys an open view to river, thickness of the "screen" is transformed into a three-dimensional "screen niche", with service functions for selling, washing and storage hidden inward. In toilet area, "screen" is compressed into a thin layer of mirror, which wraps 4 independent boxes and forms an interface.
Research: In 2004, Yongning park went through a large-scale renovation, which is the local realization of the "anti-planning" construction concept of native landscape. It transformed a river channel with the single function of flood control into a diversified habitat system, and won the annual awards of the ministry of construction and the American Society of Landscape Architects. However, with the s hift of the center of gravity of urban public activity space, the site is slowly waning and losing its vitality.
Inspiration: In memory, the Yongning park before repair is a forbidden land, the river is dangerous, and it is full of mudflat.
When I was a child, I would go to catch crabs by the river with my little friends after school. However, I was always wary of the danger of sunset ebb tide. Suddenly there was a parental reprimand, the moment when the afterglow disappears into the earth plane...The uncertainty of these moments is fixed into an impression word in the deep memory - fleeting scenery.
Project Duration: Duration: from May 2018 to May 2019
Location: Yongning, China
Operation Flow: The site is located in the transitional part of landscape rambling-way and urban fast road. "OPEN" is the first thinking of architecture to intervene in the site. It opens the visual channel of city and landscape like uncovering exhibition, forms the shape of "eight". Along the route, there is a public exhibition hall facing the river view on the left, an introverted public toilet space on the right, and a strip corridor walking among the Osman thus trees.
Team Members: Cheif Designer: Hu Yijia
Design Team: Zhang Juxin, Chen Yining，Zhou Yuechen, Ye Tong
Image Credits: Photographers: Hu Yijie, Zhang Yi