Guilin 展覽中心 by Tengyuan Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金獎 in 建築、樓宇及結構設計 Competition Category.

金建築· 2020

Guilin 展覽中心

by Tengyuan Design

Client: Tengyuan Design

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Guilin 展覽中心

桂林係一座以極簡玻璃立方體為設計概念嘅文化旅遊展覽中心。建築面積達4021平方米。玻璃幕牆採用懸臂式玻璃肋垂直排列，以兩種密度同高度設置。玻璃肋喺立面上形成三個層次嘅山巒剪影，呈現出近景、中景同遠景嘅視覺效果。玻璃層之間嘅透射、反射同折射相互交疊，隨光線變化而流轉。展廳內部沿主要動線設有一條竹製廊道。呢個設計將桂林嘅山水風光轉化為建築形態。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Guilin 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Guilin 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。Guilin 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

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The building in the design draft remains a minimalist cube, and the only difference is that the curtain wall is processed in order to build a "landscape cube". The skillful use of artificial elements and abstract nature not only reveals the modernity of the showcased building, but also integrates the unique scenery of Guilin into the building.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 4021 square meters. The glass ribs rise and fall vertically, forming rolling hill shades on the building. Two set of glass ribs, different in density and vertical height, form three levels of hill shades on the building elevation, including the "close view", "medium view" and "distant view".
Tags: Architecture, Culture Center, Exhibition, Oriental Elements, Natural, Elegant, Bamboo,
Production Technology: On the front plaza, the reflection of the building in water makes the building more layered and expressive. The vertical glass ribs are arranged evenly and projected vertically onto the glass curtain wall. Due to different locations and angles, there appears a difference in the abundant overlapped transmissions, reflections and refractions among the glass layers, and a subtly changing dramatic effect can be produced under different illumination conditions.
Design Challenge: One of the innovations of the project is the single use of glass to present the spatial structure and poetic conception of the landscape in Guilin using different construction methods and surface processing methods.
Research: The building curtain wall must not only show a spatial structure composed of distant, medium and close views, but also keep nightscape animation effects consistent with one another to avoid the appearance of "ripstop effects" caused by a stick curtain wall in nightscape lighting. After many discussions and technical communications, we finally decided to build a glass curtain wall with cantilever glass ribs.
Inspiration: The landscape in Guilin is the best in the world. Thus, the project of Guilin Culture and Tourism Exhibition Center deservedly chooses to highlight the theme of landscape. For this project, we hope to design it based on the landscape, express in a certain shape and endow it with a meaning, and use a pure glass box to arouse people's inner feelings for nature and landscape.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2016 in Guilin and finished in September 2018 in Guilin.
Operation Flow: China has a longstanding tradition of bamboo culture, and Guilin also abounds in natural bamboo resources. We have designed a bamboo gallery on the main sightseeing route in the showroom to create an artistic conception of bamboo forest.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Tengyuan Design, 2018.
Team Members: Zhao Guangjun
Wang Zhenming
Wei Peng
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Kai Wang, Top View, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery 2, 2018.