Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈 by Jun Ding and Michael Strohmer

Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈 by Jun Ding and Michael Strohmer 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

Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈

by Jun Ding and Michael Strohmer

Client: Hangzhou Cbd Investment Group

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈

平江時代係一個集酒店、零售中心、服務式住宅同寫字樓空間於一體嘅城市綜合體。設計靈感源自水嘅流動同律動。層層交疊嘅曲線塑造出建築形態同立面系統，而同樣嘅圓形幾何延伸至整個基地嘅景觀平台。建築功能以分層X形佈局排列，令酒店客房面向湖景，而內部零售街則貫穿塔樓下方。喺現有泵站上方設置嘅景觀平台，將基地同濱水區連接起嚟。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈是 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Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈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。Pingjiang Times 綜合用途大廈激起強烈的渴望，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 Pingjiang Times Project is an urban complex integrating a high-end hotel, retail shopping mall, serviced apartments, and office space. Inspired by the movement and flow of water, the building shape and façade system are created by curves that overlap and continued. Through the landscape design of the project, the project seamlessly interfaces with the surrounding context along the river, making the project an important link connecting the inland and waterfront landscapes of the city.
Dimensions & Packaging: The gross area of the whole project is 80,705 sqm. Building height limit is 80 meters. It includes a 250-room hotel, a 14,000 sqm commercial center and a 34,397 sqm service apartment. And the site includes an existing pump station.
Tags: Mixed Use, Water Front, Hotel Façade, Curved Building
Production Technology: This mixed-use project is aimed not only elevate the condition inside the site by active commercial street and rich landscape platform, but also bring life to surrounding area. By proposing a tunnel for the main road between the site and river, it creates a separation of pedestrian and vehicles as well as series green platform and trails for people to engage with the environment.
Design Challenge: Building façade is inspired by water waves and scripted by grasshopper. The ratio of the window and solid have been studied carefully to give a comfortable sense from hotel interior. Another change is how to utilize and active the narrow site cut by existing pump station and create extensive connection to the lake front. The design separates vehicle and pedestrian loop and create a big landscape platform on top of existing pump station which extend to the lake to encourage social interaction of local citizen and traveler and benefit local environment.
Research: Since the project site is quiet small and narrow compare to the mixed use program given, we looked into the different strategy of the masterplan and studied the street scale on the lower commercial center. What we find out is that different from multi-towers and big black box for commercial center on the podium levels, it is a nice experience that open up a street under towers and create a pedestrian-friendly retail street that people could easily shopping and walk through from the east to the west of the site. It makes all the area on the site being active day and night.
Inspiration: Our design strategy was inspired by the movement and flow of water. Just as the rain droplets collide with the smooth surface of water, forming a series of concentric circles that combine and overlap one another, the programmatic building elements are expressed as arching legs that combine and overlap each other. The concentric circular geometry continues through the landscape forms that extend throughout the site and tie it to the significant role that water plays in this region of China.
Project Duration: The project is located in the Jiangwan area of Hangzhou. Hangzhou has benefited from the convenience of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the trade port, as well as its own developed silk and grain industries. Historically, it was an important commercial distribution center. Qiantang River is the base of the Jiangwan area, and has benefit people and community in the region for thousands of years. Transforming its functions, carrying the dream of "developing across rives" to "supporting the development of rivers" is important.
Operation Flow: To better utilize the narrow site and great view of the lake, building function are placed in a layered X shape, where hotel is in the front and has a single loaded corridor to give all the room a lake view. An internal retail street was arranged under the X shape tower to truly active the whole site.
Team Members: Jun Ding
Robert Du
Jiajia Lin
Michael Strohmer