Chongqing Sunac One Central Mansion Sales Pavillion in China by aoe

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China is in an era of rapid economic development。 The people’s demand for quality of life after the stage of meeting the basic needs of life to the spiritual level is getting higher and higher. This trend is also reflected in the demand of housing projects which occupies more than One-third of the life time of human life. Sales office in China, as a showcase for developers to display their projects and ideas, has received extreme attention. It becomes an important medium of marketing. Developers will be willing to invest money on the sales office to showcase their project’s taste, style, quality, environment and the implementation of lifestyle and so on.

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• Architects: aoe
• Project: Chongqing Sunac One Central Mansion Sales Pavillion
• Location: Chongqing, China

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In the past decades, the fault of Chinese culture has caused their own cultural value to be destroyed and neglected by the whole society, and there has been a cliff-like culture flaw. The great contradiction between the increasingly affluent life and the lack of culture causes a lot of blind worship and acceptance of the values of overseas culture and its output. Such a fault makes the European classical architectural form extremely popular in China because of its gorgeous image and as a symbol of wealth and good taste. This kind of architecture phenomena which lacks of Chinese culture and cultural foundation is a new cultural colonization. It is a historical tragedy.

We are trying to find a way to engage new technology, materials, ideas to excavate the essence of Chinese architectural culture, to create a new form of Chinese architecture adapting to the development of modern era, to return the value of Chinese culture. We hope to use design to regain the essence of Chinese culture and reshape our cultural self-confidence.

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SUNAC as one of the largest developers in China will develop a luxury apartment project in Chongqing located on Huxie Road. We are committed to design their sales office. Based on the regulation, the sales office will be converted into a kindergarten after the use as a sales office. The difficulty of the project is that two different functions have completely different requirements for space, form and appearance. The strategy we adopted is to add another layer of removable green skin, the metal mesh, outside the building for sustainable and imagery purpose. This layer of skin creates an unique facade of the sales office which is conveyed by the core concept of Chinese architecture from the artistic conception of the expression. Different from the western architecture which are based on stone masonry construction system, ancient Chinese architecture does not use geometric form as the basis of architectural performance, in contrary, the Chinese-style wood structure emphasis more on the expression of architectural logic following the natural law. Structural components such as pillars, beams, brackets, rafters, Purlin and so on are all exposed, all comply with the natural mechanics of the law, so it will appear without affectation, especially the roof of the arc. The overhangs of the eaves forms the gray space and it creates a vague zone merging the nature and building into one to achieve the symbiotic state of man and nature. The concept of the sales office is in the inheritance of such a concept. The use of metal fabric as the secondary skin forms a sustainable curtain to protect the building from direct sunlight for energy saving. Also the internal and external space are linked visually and spatially in an elegant transition. Translucent materials presented by the looming visual blur convey a rich level of the depth in space. At the same time, the graceful arc of metal fabric formed by natural mechanical logic salutes the Chinese architecture which conforms to the logic of natural structure. The elegant modern steel structure are exposed. The translucency together with elegant landscape creates a poetic zen space. Although the architectural form and the material are modern, but the core idea is the same as Chinese architecture philosophy. The Tao Nature, formless is the ultimate sophistication.

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Tags: China, Chongqing

Category: Pavilion

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