Wenlan Mansion 展示中心 by Shanghai PTArchitects

Wenlan Mansion 展示中心 by Shanghai PTArchitects is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 金獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.

金建築· 2021

Wenlan Mansion 展示中心

by Shanghai PTArchitects

Client: Shanghai PTArchitects

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Wenlan Mansion 展示中心

文瀾府係一個位於中國昆明西山同滇池附近嘅展示中心。項目基地面向山景，視野開闊，四周環繞住豐富嘅生態資源。設計利用場地五米嘅高差，營造出垂直空間同拾級而上嘅景觀視野。佈局沿用昆明傳統院落格局，採用中軸對稱同前後院嘅規劃，將場地劃分為文化展示區、水院同私家花園。外立面採用石材同鋁板。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Wenlan Mansion 展示中心是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計Wenlan Mansion 展示中心將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Wenlan Mansion 展示中心激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is located in the tourism section of West Mountain’s Dian Lake, An’ning City, Kunming. Facing the West Mountain, the site offers an open view and is surrounded by an abundance of ecological resources. The project leverages the height differences of the area and its surrounding landscape resources. The architect strives to create vertical buildings with both style and functions, and to build an open community that shares both urban like neighbourhood and the green resources of nature at the same time.
Dimensions & Packaging: People who have long lived under the uproars of urban life have always longed for a homecoming experience through the embrace of nature. By utilizing the terrain difference and the landscape of the West Mountain, the architect brings a unique oneness to the site. The project offers the visitors an ascending view, along with multi-layered and multi-featured theme spaces. For instance, take a stroll and join us on the community’s homecoming tour, including: the display area, the entrance, the front corridor, the water spiral stairwell, the townhouse showroom, and the villa showroom.
Tags: display Center, open community, interactive circling, experience pathway, front-back yard layout
Production Technology: The architect creates multiple spaces to echo with the undulating terrain of the West Mountain. The concept comes from the architectural features of traditional courtyards in Kunming, featured with typical axis symmetry and front-back yard layout, which divides the site into three spaces: the cultural exhibition area, the water courtyard, and the private garden. Thus, the architect creates a sense of order and beauty in the overall space.
Design Challenge: This project is a mountain project with large disparities on ground levels and complex geological conditions. At the same time, the space is long and narrow and insufficient for street-side display. There is not enough space available for construction, not to mention the 5m height difference of the ground levels.

The exhibition area makes good use of the height difference to create multiple spaces into a vertical cityscape, and the commercial spaces are arranged along the streets facing the urban interface to form a dynamic commercial area. Vibrant street corners are set up among the plots, and rich commercial choices meet different life scenarios, to form humane and entertaining commercial streets, condensing the homelike atmosphere of the residential community and creating transitional spaces between the roads.
Research: Through the entrance comes the front corridor. Multiple courtyard spaces produce multiple life experiences. The winding staircase guides the visitor’s sight from ancient residence to a modern glass box.
At the top of the stairs, the roof of the display center looks like a leaf floating on still water. The water side terrace reduces the transition of different spaces, and the wide overhang ensures that the light coming from outside is comfortable inside the building..
The wall of the entrance of the residential area is like a white scroll stretching beside the water pool. All the urban uproars are silenced here and fade away, only the beautiful natural scenery welcome the residents back home.
Inspiration: As the project is located in a mountainous area with different elevations, at the beginning the architect adjusts the area in an appropriate and orderly manner. Then he connected the functional units of the building with an interactive circling experience pathway. Through a series of visual corridors that direct to the urban area, the architect forms a spatial guide which is perpendicular to the main street.
Project Duration: The project started in Mar. 2019 and finished in Sep. 2020 in Kunming, China
Operation Flow: The entrance area is located on the axis of the sales section, which surrounds the courtyard to form a centripetal space centered on the water courtyard. The frontage is designed according to the special features of traditional Yunnan architecture, which aims to achieve both cultural preservation and constructional style in architecture, merging the local style with the new concept of future architecture. Through detailed research on materials and construction methods such as stone type, metal aluminum plate, etc., and through rediscovering the proper order in the space of a home, art of life in “seclusion” in a serene and poetic atmosphere is thence created.
Team Members: Shanghai PTArchitects
Image Credits: IMAGE by Zeng Jianghe