Gold Architecture · 2020
Snail Bay City Exhibition Hall
by Kris Lin
- Golden A' Design Award 2020 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Junfa Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 35,418
- Verification code 3DA330C5B7 · Verify this award
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About Snail Bay City Exhibition Hall
Snail Bay is a city exhibition hall in Kunming, China, created through the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings. The hall covers 6800 square metres and presents the future development of the Snail Bay area. The external walls were removed while the original structure and spatial pattern were preserved. A large glass curtain wall faces the natural landscape and opens the interior view. Lake water is drawn into the building, where a regular pool overlaps visually with the lake surface. A corridor connects indoor and outdoor space.
About the Golden A' Design Award
Snail Bay City Exhibition Hall is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Snail Bay City Exhibition Hall is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Snail Bay City Exhibition Hall creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Reuse of old buildings
This case is the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings in Snail Bay. The Snail Bay Center is a government led urban renewal project that was upgraded on the original site of Old Snail Bay. The city exhibition hall is designed to show the future development of Snail Bay area. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 6800sqm
- Tags
- Reuse of old buildings, urban renewal, Integration of indoor and outdoor, four dimensional integrated design, city exhibition hall,
- Production Technology
- Space is the essence of architecture. The designers’ strategy is to remove the external wall, dig its internal spatial memory and value, and endow it with proper temperament, while preserving its structure and spatial pattern. Under the requisite of maintaining the architecture function, a large area glass curtain wall is used on the side facing the natural landscape, which makes the indoor space vision completely open.
- Design Challenge
- Reuse of old buildings
This case is the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings in Snail Bay. The Snail Bay Center is a government led urban renewal project that was upgraded on the original site of Old Snail Bay. The city exhibition hall is designed to show the future development of Snail Bay area. - Research
- The project is located in Kunming, it is also known as Flower City and Spring City. It is one of the most habitable cities in China.This case is the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings in Snail Bay. The Snail Bay Center is a government-led urban renewal project that was upgraded on the original site of Old Snail Bay.
- Inspiration
- Integration of indoor and outdoor
The project base is adjacent to Central Lake Park and has excellent natural landscape resources. Designers carried out a four dimensional integrated design from architecture, landscape, interior to soft decoration. - Project Duration
- The project started in October 2018 in Kunming,China and finished in March 2019 in Kunming,China, and was exhibited in Kunming,China in March 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The lake water is introduced into the building, and the regular pool and the natural lake surface form the visual effect of overlapping. The corridor connects the indoor and outdoor space, and at the same time breaks the monotonous water surface space, which enriches the landscape level of the pool. The openness and naturalness of the space create a flow between indoor and outdoor.
- Image Credits
- Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer KLID 2019