Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客中心 by MadeMake Architects

Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客中心 by MadeMake Architects 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

Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客中心

by MadeMake Architects

Client: MadeMake Architects

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 建築 Category

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The Design

About Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客中心

撫仙湖星空小鎮係一座建喺撫仙湖畔嘅遊客中心兼公共空間。建築物嘅造型好似一塊白色嘅樹葉，靜靜咁棲息喺水邊。每塊葉形屋頂覆蓋大約1200平方米，為當地氣候提供所需嘅遮陽功能。兩幅由鋁板構成嘅流動白色牆身將各個空間連繫起嚟，配合一條延伸145米嘅弧形飄帶橋。入口上方嘅雨棚由三角形鏡面不鏽鋼板組成。地面層嘅大幅玻璃窗令湖景喺場地內一覽無遺。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客中心是 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Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客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。Starry Town of Fuxian Lake 遊客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: This case is the first cultural tourism project of Longfor Properties, and the visitor center is the sales office most closely combined with nature. In addition to the display function of the sales building, it is also the best platform to view the lake. The roof has a strong landscape function, which not only has a sense of sculpture, but meets the sun shading requirements of the local climate. It is like a white leaf, floating quietly on the bank of Fuxian Lake.
Dimensions & Packaging: The length of the entire project is 245 meters, from the visitor center to the end of the ribbon structure. Including a 1673 square meters visitor center, a 200 square meters Zen book cafe and a jade ribbon bridge extending 145 meters. Every leaf roofing is approximately 1200 square meters. One single aluminum wall plate is 3 meters by 1.5 meters.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Sales Center, Starry Town of Fuxian Lake, Fairy Lake, Jade Ribbon, Natural, Elegant, Cultural
Production Technology: The dominant canopy hanging over the entrance is divided into a series of triangular mirror-finished stainless steel panels. These triangle units are arranged slightly offset each other at an angle to create this huge curvature extending forwards. Two significant flowing white walls are stretching from one end to almost the other. They are made of metallic aluminum plates. After more than adequate 3D experiments, these walls are fully evaluated then hollowed out on specific spots.
Design Challenge: Due to its complexity of 3D modeling and the final construction. The pressure also comes from the local authority that the architects must keep the pollution at the minimum. Throughout the collaboration with structural engineers, mechanical engineers and material suppliers, the designer insists that the units dimensions should be adjust one by one when it comes to the edge or the curve. In order to achieve the perfection of interior and exterior.
Research: Interacting with landscape and interior designers from initial ideas stage, the architects studied several combinations of horizontal and vertical flow lines that enrich the content. Next, taking account of the suggestions from construction consultants, they zoom in the rhino models, deepen the study of the relationship with the exterior and interior. Especially the aluminum plates and the leaf roofing.
Inspiration: Fuxian Lake is a famous and precious conservatory water of my country. When the designer went on his first field trip to the site, he was astonished by its quietness and deepness. Therefore, he use the form of leaf on the site, and keep the arrangement as in-deliberate as possible. Using a soft curve connection that he called Jade ribbon to link adjoin spaces. Besides, huge amount of glazing is put on the ground floor to maintain a see through effect from any angle on the site to lake.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2018 in Yuxi and finished in October 2019 in Yuxi.
Operation Flow: In terms of the leaf roofing, the architects have pre-casted the steel sections and then fabricated PTFE fiberglass layers. However, the installing progress of the fiberglass drew another round of experiments on the relationship of connection nodes and plates which they adopted with turnover framework techniques.
Patents: Copyrights belong to MadeMake Architects, 2019.
Team Members: Sheng Chai
Xin Wu
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Chao Wang, Starry Town of Fuxian Lake, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Chao Wang, Starry Town of Fuxian Lake, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Chao Wang, Starry Town of Fuxian Lake, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Chao Wang, Starry Town of Fuxian Lake, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Chao Wang, Starry Town of Fuxian Lake, 2019.