Yongning Station 小型城市綜合體 by Yijia Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.

銀建築· 2020

Yongning Station 小型城市綜合體

by Yijia Hu

Client: Hu Yijia

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Yongning Station 小型城市綜合體

永寧站係中國永寧一座小型城市綜合體。公廁係主要功能，結合休閒、展覽等配套服務。建築喺城市同景觀之間打開咗一條視覺通道，平面形成一個好似數字八嘅形狀。沿住路線，左邊有一個面向河流嘅公共展覽廳，右邊係一個內向型嘅公廁區，一條窄長嘅走廊穿越桂花樹之間。屏風係組織空間同框定景色嘅關鍵元素。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

Yongning Station 小型城市綜合體是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Yongning Station 小型城市綜合體將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Yongning Station 小型城市綜合體是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

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