Tianqingli Residential Townhouse by Likun Shen |
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| DESIGN NAME: Tianqingli Residential PRIMARY FUNCTION: Townhouse INSPIRATION: This project creates the spatial pattern of multi-sided landscape and multiple courtyards, forming a direct dialogue between architecture and nature. The courtyard presents a natural openness while giving consideration to privacy. The project classifies the courtyards with the traditional Chinese garden landscape borrowing approach, thus the sequence between the private and public courtyards is more variable, which is closer to be in line with the contemporary aesthetic needs. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project is located at the north side of Shangtang River, a canal tributary of Hangzhou, as the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Relying on the landscape of hills in the east, the project aims at becoming the first Song-style residential cluster with Chinese traditional gardens in China, and tries to explore the possibility of the revival of oriental classical culture from the perspective of the contemporary and sustainable development of traditional architecture. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: This project combines the traditional residential form and the contemporary construction technology. From the perspective of cost and natural resources, the use of traditional Chinese style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wooden structure can perfectly present the beautiful form of traditional buildings, ensures the performance of construction, reasonable cost and construction cycle, it can be widely used in the contemporary practice of traditional Chinese style buildings. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in June 2018 and finished in October 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Song-style is the most exquisite but not complicated architectural form in Chinese architecture history. The project reduces complexity to simplicity by using modern architectural language while maintaining the readability of architectural symbols, applies the technology of Chinese traditional style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wood structure, which obtains the Chinese Utility Patent, making the contemporary practice of Chinese traditional style buildings more sustainable. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The total site area is 17900 sqm, the total building area is 8500 sqm, and 32 households are involved. TAGS: Song-Style Residential, Oriental Tradition, Settlement, Chinese Traditional Garden RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Since the Song Dynasty, JIE-DRAWING (to draw with a ruler and to obtain the clear boundary) had become a technique of Chinese painting. Compared with other kinds of painting, it requires to accurately and carefully reproduce the painted objects. Therefore, JIE-DRAWING has scientifically recorded the ancient buildings, urban features and living scenes of Song dynasty. Therefore, it is an important way to obtain the basis of design from the Song calligraphy and Song paintings. CHALLENGE: Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project creates a new living experience responds to the local climate and traditional living habits based on the characteristics of traditional residential settlements, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience. ADDED DATE: 2022-09-30 13:29:12 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : IMAGE CREDITS: gad PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to gad |
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NAME: gad PROFILE: About gad, as an atypical design studio born in the transformation of rapid development of Chinese architecture design revolution, gad now is one of the most influential design companies countrywide. Instead of mass production, gad would rather choose to slow down and search for the existing significance of every space. A group of energetic and thoughtful young people gather together here to give rise to tons of interesting and fresh ideas. Now gad cooperates with insightful proprietors from diverse fields like hotel design, housing design, theater design and so on to boost new ideas for architecture, which at the same time, encourages itself to step into a better design world. |
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Tianqingli Residential Townhouse by Likun Shen is Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2022 - 2023.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Likun Shen. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Likun Shen. |
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