Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建築 by Xin Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.

銅建築· 2020

Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建築

by Xin Wu

Client: MadeMake Architects

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建築

龍湖天境係中國重慶嘅一個住宅建築群。佈局將客廳、飯廳同睡房圍繞住一個半開放式庭院嚟設置，形成一個6.2米高嘅挑高空間。每戶住宅都擁有超過30平方米嘅戶外空間，並且改善咗相鄰房間嘅通風。庭院二樓刻意唔設窗戶，以保障私隱。立面以橫向嘅白色鋁板編織結合縱向元素同玻璃幕牆。喺混凝土屋頂板上鋪設至少600毫米深嘅泥土，支撐起私家空中花園。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建築是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建築將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Longfor Dwell Realm 住宅建築出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

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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.