Bronze Architecture · 2025
Lilong Arcade Community Center
by Jiahua Xu
- Bronze A' Design Award 2025 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Archtic
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,198
- Verification code 6535951D32 · Verify this award
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About Lilong Arcade Community Center
Lilong Arcade thoughtfully blends traditional arcade architecture with modern design, creating accessible, versatile spaces tailored to community engagement. By carefully respecting historical context, the project enhances urban experiences and promotes social interactions, adaptability, cultural preservation, and vibrant public life within a contemporary urban setting.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Lilong Arcade Community Center is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Lilong Arcade Community Center is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Lilong Arcade Community Center splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- "Lilong Arcade" embraces the concept of integrating public spaces with historical features while meeting modern needs.
Flexible layouts maximize space usage, blending fixed and mobile areas to accommodate diverse community needs.
The facade design marries historical elements with modern materials, maintaining harmony with the surrounding architecture while creating a welcoming, vibrant environment that supports public engagement. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Plot area:937m²
Gross Floor Area: 1677m²
Overall outdoor activity: 478.6m²
Citizen activity center: 154.6m²
F&B Retail: 202.5m²
Elderly activity center: 110.3m²
Healthcare: 288.5m²
Children's activity and Daycare: 374.3m²
Sports: 288.5m²
Flexible: 258.4m² - Tags
- community, social, civic, activity, wellness, urban, historic district, flexibility
- Production Technology
- Since the reconstruction cannot break through the existing building 3D boundary, the original building height is reused in accordance with the principle of economy and practicality.
The small column span shallow beam are used to achieve span of 4.5-6 meters.
An atrium is set inside the building to enhance the lighting while eliminating the sense of space cramped.
The visual corridor perpendicular to Main Road naturally extends to the depths of the base, leading the direction of the axis network system. - Design Challenge
- Since the reconstruction cannot break through the three-dimensional boundary, the building height cannot be greatly increased. As for the problem of insufficient building height (about 3.5 meters), the small column span shallow beam and partial height treatment are used to achieve: the conventional column span is 4.5-6 meters, and the local span is increased to enhance the permeability of the space.
- Research
- The project is located in Changning District, Shanghai, with a profound cultural heritage of foreign culture and local traditions.
The facade of the project building adopts a modern eclectic arcade form, which pays tribute to the traditional style. The arcade not only gives the building a timeless beauty, but also increases the transparency by providing a gray space for citizens to interact.
The exterior wall of the building adopts light-colored bricks to be unified with the surrounding style, the floor-to-ceiling glass windows fill the interior space with natural light, enhancing the openness and transparency of the building. - Inspiration
- The design concept of "Lilong Arcade" aims to adopt the "arcade", an architectural motif with publicness and sharing, to integrate historical features while showing the contemporaryity, making the building a natural extension of the walkable street system.
The project revolves around the principles of serving the people, adapting to local conditions, and flexible adaptation, creating a rich and high-quality service and activity space for citizens in the limited existing space. - Project Duration
- The project started in April 2024 in Shanghai and finished in August 2024
- Operation Flow
- To fully realize the functionality of various spaces in the limited space, a combination of fixed space + flexible space is adopt. That is, in addition to the spaces that rely on equipment such as the service center, community canteen, ect, most of the activities and learning places are optimized into flex spaces through operation. This not only helps the space allocation within the project, but also helps promote the fair and efficient allocation of public resources.
