Project Overview
Located in Jinjiang District, Chengdu, the project covers an area of approximately 47,209.43㎡. It has convenient transportation and complete supporting facilities for education, healthcare, commerce, public green space etc. According to the traditional courtyard space and contemporary neighborhood relationships, this design team applied two layout techniques: the high-rise buildings enclose a central garden, and low-rise courtyards abstracted from the traditional Chinese neighborhood format.
Project Commissioner
Chengdu Jingxing Real Estate Company
Project Creator
Team
Zhong Lei, Lin Rui, Jiang Jinglin, Dai Feiyu
Project Brief
Inspirited by the design technique of borrowing scenery of the traditional Chinese gardens, this design scheme creates a kind of separated but endless visual experience by the elevated ground floors of those high-rise buildings, connecting to the courtyards of the south in the horizontal direction and the private and public landscape in the vertical direction. It creates a serene and elegant atmosphere of Chinese gardens and fosters a sense of place memory in the neighborhood relationship, in line with the ecological strategy of integration and coexistence, as well as the civilized and efficient ideas of the times.
The elegant and refined Song dynasty aesthetics push the Chinese aesthetics to its peak, but the project does not simply imitate the past. The courtyard buildings of the south deconstruct the complex features of classical gardens, such as the intricate ridges and flying eaves, and refine them into simple and sleek lines using advanced techniques and materials. This creates a restrained, simple, and light eave that embodies the Eastern aesthetic horizon, making the design more suitable for international contexts and high-density street layouts, completing an aesthetic iteration of “simplicity in grandeur.”
Project Innovation/Need
The charm of Eastern aesthetics is difficult to materialize. Therefore, the project does not directly use symbolic Chinese elements or representational architectural techniques. Its overall layout breaks away from the traditional community’s strong axial symmetrical arrangement, organizing space with courtyards and combining them with elevated levels at the bottom of the buildings to create a central enclosed landscape and a circulation plan of “surrounded by outer streets, interconnected by inner alleys.” Hereby, the space is not confined by the buildings, but transcends the boundaries between inside and outside, freely accessing the place, and achieving a rethinking of architecture, city, and people.
Nowadays, with the resurgence of traditional Chinese residential concepts, although the design team retains warmth and respect for the refined architecture of the Song dynasty in their design approach, they still maintain a dialectical and critical attitude. They neither lean towards romantic regionalism of nostalgia and retro nor blindly follow internationalism under the trend of globalization. Instead, they draw inspiration from past glory, recreate genes from lost classics, and explore and breakthrough with an international perspective, showcasing a spirit of freedom, diversity, forward-thinking, and sharing. This completes the practice of critical regionalism.
Design Challenge
Meanwhile, the design of the high-rise residential area does not directly use symbolic Chinese elements or representational architectural techniques. It employs a minimalist approach, with large areas of glass and delicate metal lines outlining the edges of the blocks, extending all the way to the roof to create a rigorous and innovative facade order that satisfies maximum functional needs with minimal visual noise.
Sustainability
External wall insulation material technology: The heat transfer loss of the external walls in buildings is relatively large, usually accounting for more than 20% of the total energy consumption. By using new exterior wall insulation materials, heat loss can be reduced, making the house warmer and reducing the opening time of heating equipment such as air conditioning. Using aluminum curtain walls, in terms of environmental protection and energy conservation, aluminum panels can be recycled by 99% and put into production for reuse, which greatly saves material resources and can become green and environmentally friendly building materials.
Faced with limited land resources, architects did not choose simple stacking and expansion but instead delved into the advantages of the plot itself - the surrounding greenery and peaceful natural scenery. They cleverly integrated these natural elements into the design, creating a harmonious symbiotic relationship between the residence, garden, and surrounding environment.
High-density cities erect thick reinforced concrete stone walls between people and nature, making the relationship between people and nature unfamiliar and distant. Yanbo series residential products adhere to the design concept of "coming from nature, going back to nature", and replace solid walls with French windows so that different types of products have perfect landscape views.
Architecture - Proposed - International
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