Gold Architecture · 2020
Guilin Exhibition Center
- Golden A' Design Award 2020 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Tengyuan Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,781
- Verification code 4541F9F557 · Verify this award
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About Guilin Exhibition Center
Guilin is a culture and tourism exhibition center designed as a minimalist glass cube. The building covers 4021 square meters. The glass curtain wall is built with cantilever glass ribs set vertically in two densities and heights. The ribs form three levels of hill shades on the elevation, read as close, medium and distant views. Overlapping transmission, reflection and refraction between the glass layers shift with the light. A bamboo gallery follows the main route inside the showroom. The design turns the landscape of Guilin into built form.
About the Golden A' Design Award
Guilin Exhibition Center 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. Guilin Exhibition Center 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. Guilin Exhibition Center creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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- Unique Properties
- The building in the design draft remains a minimalist cube, and the only difference is that the curtain wall is processed in order to build a "landscape cube". The skillful use of artificial elements and abstract nature not only reveals the modernity of the showcased building, but also integrates the unique scenery of Guilin into the building.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 4021 square meters. The glass ribs rise and fall vertically, forming rolling hill shades on the building. Two set of glass ribs, different in density and vertical height, form three levels of hill shades on the building elevation, including the "close view", "medium view" and "distant view".
- Tags
- Architecture, Culture Center, Exhibition, Oriental Elements, Natural, Elegant, Bamboo,
- Production Technology
- On the front plaza, the reflection of the building in water makes the building more layered and expressive. The vertical glass ribs are arranged evenly and projected vertically onto the glass curtain wall. Due to different locations and angles, there appears a difference in the abundant overlapped transmissions, reflections and refractions among the glass layers, and a subtly changing dramatic effect can be produced under different illumination conditions.
- Design Challenge
- One of the innovations of the project is the single use of glass to present the spatial structure and poetic conception of the landscape in Guilin using different construction methods and surface processing methods.
- Research
- The building curtain wall must not only show a spatial structure composed of distant, medium and close views, but also keep nightscape animation effects consistent with one another to avoid the appearance of "ripstop effects" caused by a stick curtain wall in nightscape lighting. After many discussions and technical communications, we finally decided to build a glass curtain wall with cantilever glass ribs.
- Inspiration
- The landscape in Guilin is the best in the world. Thus, the project of Guilin Culture and Tourism Exhibition Center deservedly chooses to highlight the theme of landscape. For this project, we hope to design it based on the landscape, express in a certain shape and endow it with a meaning, and use a pure glass box to arouse people's inner feelings for nature and landscape.
- Project Duration
- The project started in May 2016 in Guilin and finished in September 2018 in Guilin.
- Operation Flow
- China has a longstanding tradition of bamboo culture, and Guilin also abounds in natural bamboo resources. We have designed a bamboo gallery on the main sightseeing route in the showroom to create an artistic conception of bamboo forest.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Tengyuan Design, 2018.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Kai Wang, Top View, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Kai Wang, Exhibition Center 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Kai Wang, Bamboo Gallery 2, 2018.
