Guangzhou Julong Bay 展覽中心 by Ann Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 金獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.

金建築· 2023

Guangzhou Julong Bay 展覽中心

by Ann Yu

Client: Guangzhou Pearl River Enterprises Group

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Guangzhou Julong Bay 展覽中心

廣州聚龍灣係一個由珠江西岸四座建於1950年代嘅磚砌倉庫改造而成嘅城市規劃展覽中心。原有嘅結構同材料盡可能保留，新建部分則採用訂製嘅仿黏土磚。大跨度鋼架配以傾斜玻璃幕牆覆蓋住幾個並排嘅展廳，將佢哋連成一個靈活嘅室內空間。三角形屋頂順應舊有斜天花嘅角度。鋼架喺兩側延伸至地面，形成一條向江邊景觀開放嘅走廊。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Guangzhou Julong Bay 展覽中心是 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Guangzhou Julong Bay 展覽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。Guangzhou Julong Bay 展覽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

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

Unique Properties: Located on the west bank of the Pearl River, the original site with four separated brick warehouses that built in the 1950s was a significant granary of Guangzhou. As the first stage of the city government’s renewal master plan in the area, the key objectives of the adaptive reuse project was to remain its industrial past as a reminder of the history, while build a city-planning exhibition hall and civic center that act as a beacon to investors, developers and citizens, to encourage a massive participation in the rebirth of the old district. The core design idea was to ensure its new functional usability, while presenting the old site in an attractive way to the young generation. The project has been rated a high score in the SITES Sustainable System, as the first to achieve that in China.
Dimensions & Packaging: Area：5000㎡
Tags: Revitalization of old buildings；Reborn；Exhibition Center；Handmade Bricks
Production Technology: large-span steel frame and full-slope glass curtain wall system；handmade bricks
Design Challenge: For practicing designers, there is not much room for practice due to the overwhelming historical meaning of the architectural conservation field, which is too complicated to regulate. Instead, there is a lot of possibilities in the field of conservation revitalization of old buildings on how to renovate. The numerous protective revitalization approach is either an allusion to or an extension of the different repair theories in the right proportion.
The Chongkouwarehouse is a group of old warehouses on the river bank, which retains its identity as an old building and avoids being classified as a historical and cultural preservation building and thus has a new fate. It is also possible to completely avoid the 'something if nothing, a reality if nothing, a great wisdom if foolishness'. This is indeed the luck of itsdestiny. And it is even more fortunate that we, as designers, have been given this honoredopportunity torenovatethis group of nearly century-old buildings and bestowthem a contemporary significance.
Taketheexampleof ChongKouWarehouse. Transformed from a 19th century grain warehouse into a commercial urban exhibition center, the original building group has a very simple layout.Three groups of 13m x 45m square pods of uniform length and width in proportion to their structure are lined up along the short side at 10m intervals.The physical spaces of the building have a good and balanced ratio of area to the open void spaces.Thewarehouse, on the other hand, have an interior usable area of 1,755 square meters, which in fact cannot take on the full function of an urban exhibition center.Thereforeexpansion became necessary. On the basis of the structural characteristics of the original building, a vertical extension would be extremely costly and irreversibly damage the sloping roof of the original building.Thus flat expansion became first choice. The open void space of the original site is incorporated into the new space and organized into a non-thematic visiting/reception/resting space, which incorporated intothe main exhibition and meeting content that the original three-storey interior can take on, a good functional and logical organization of space can be achieved within the limited scope of the renovation.The four silos, which are placed horizontally and independently of the main building due to budget reasons. Because of its proximity to the original three warehouses, we have designeda connecting corridor into a reception space that is visually strongly connected to the main building but functionally independent.
Research: The original site of this project are four separated brick granary that built in the 1950s. As the first stage of the renewal plan in the area, the key objectives of the adaptive reuse project was to remain its industrial past as a reminder of the history, while build a city-planning exhibition hall and civic center. To encourage a massive participation in the rebirth of the old district ,the original structure and materials of the warehouses were reserved as far as possible, while customized imitated clay bricks are adopted in the new-built part. The core design idea was to ensure its new functional usability, while presenting the old site in an attractive way to the young generation.
Inspiration: The Chongkou warehouse is a group of old warehouses on the river bank, which retains its identity as an old building and avoids being classified as a historical and cultural preservation building and thus has a new fate. It is also possible to completely avoid the 'something if nothing, a reality if nothing, a great wisdom if foolishness'. This is indeed the luck of itsdestiny. And it is even more fortunate that we, as designers, have been given this honoredopportunity torenovatethis group of nearly century-old buildings and bestowthem a contemporary significance.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2021 in Guangzhou China and finished in February 2022 ,and exhibited in Guangzhou China in May 2022.
Operation Flow: The old warehouses was built for plainly purpose with simple brick structure. The original structure and materials of the warehouses were reserved as far as possible, while customized imitated clay bricks are adopted in the new-built part.

In order to create a connected inner space for a new massive building, a canopy of glass and steel structure was designed to build on the parallel barns, which enabled the interior to be rearranged to flexibly usage. Its triangle appearance inherit the inclined angle of the sloping ceilings of the old warehouses, and at the same time give a steady yet energetic characteristic. Modern steel structure and glass, together with traditional bricks, worked harmoniously.

The steel structure of the canopy extended on both sides to the ground, which formed a corridor that brought in the riverside landscape, and a coexist with the original plants on the site. It also created an interact between the building and the natural environment, which helped to build a friendly and cozy ambience for the interior.