Argento Architettura · 2022
Xizhimen Port Edificio residenziale
by Zhe Wang
- A' Design Award d'Argento 2022 in Architettura
- CLIENT: Beijing Sza Architectural Design Consultant
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 19,437
- Verification code 440F3CAAF2 · Verify this award
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About Xizhimen Port Edificio residenziale
Xizhimen Port è un edificio residenziale a Pechino, in Cina. La struttura di dieci piani è stata costruita negli anni Ottanta e successivamente ristrutturata per giovani inquilini urbani. La nuova facciata è formata da telai in alluminio che sporgono dalla parete esterna. I telai ordinano le travi e i pilastri a vista dell'edificio originario e offrono spazio per l'unità di climatizzazione di ogni stanza. All'interno di ciascun telaio, il colore sfuma dall'arancione nella parte superiore al giallo pallido in quella inferiore. Le finestre aggiunte sulle pareti est e ovest aumentano la luce naturale del 50 per cento.
About the A' Design Award d'Argento
Xizhimen Port Edificio residenziale ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Xizhimen Port Edificio residenziale sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Xizhimen Port Edificio residenziale è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.
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- Unique Properties
- One's residence and clothing represent a person's temperament. Apartments designed to inspire innovative young people naturally need a vibrant, attractive facade. The design organizes the variously spaced exposed beams and columns on the original facade while providing the housing for each room’s AC unit. The new facade was designed as a series of aluminum window frames projecting out from the exterior wall. The scale of the window frames increases at the building corner as if the entire building were twisting on the square as a vivid urban sculpture.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Floors: 10-story
Site Area: 2872sqm
Total Area:11000sqm - Tags
- Architecture renovation, Facade design, Residential, Apartment
- Production Technology
- The architect made different adjustments to each floor. By adding windows on the east and west side wall at typical floors, a more active urban facade is presented, at the same time, daylighting for each floor is increased by 50%. It provides flexible and private spaces for young tenants within a limited building area. The core of the room unit layout at how to provide customers with a safe and comfortable room space under the premise of limited space.
- Design Challenge
- The development of the Xizhimen Port Apartments was driven by the challenge of balancing the existing structural conditions of the 10-story building constructed in the 1980s with bold architectural expression, current building technologies, and efficient design. The original building has a large number of reinforced beams and columns exposed on the facade with variant spacing; also the renovated facade needs to find space for the AC unit of each room. So the architect designed an aluminum window frame projecting out from the exterior wall. The abundant aluminum window covers are like a horizontal combination of "Pandora's Boxes", using rhythmic changes to meet the objective functional requirements of the building.
- Research
- This building carries many common memories of the "same song" KTV, which is also one of its old identities. The outdated image, depressed tonality, and precipitated vicissitudes of this existing building are no longer in line with these young people who are trying to be innovative in the new era. Upgrading the appearance of the old buildings, reshaping the image of the city, stimulating the vitality of the community, and also providing urban young people with a warm home with a story and a dream, become a new topic faced by this project.
- Inspiration
- As a trendy apartment for innovative young people, its appearance needs to jump out of the surrounding old community environment, but can not affect the harmonious coexistence. Inspired by the scenery of the lunar eclipse, the facade is designed with bright colors which bring rich expression. The inside of the window sleeve changes from orange at the top to pale yellow at the bottom, like the color spectrum of the lunar eclipse, and also celebrating Beijing's golden autumn while the Port Apartment opens in October.
- Project Duration
- This project completed in Oct. 2018 in Beijing, China.
- Operation Flow
- The vibrant facade of the apartment was designed to inspire its residents of innovative young people as a new model for urban renewal and architectural renovation. With the development of the city to a certain stage, renewal design is bound to gradually become the main trend of urban development. Xizhimen Port Apartment is an exploration, hoping to gradually practice another way of urban renewal in addition to the point type experimental project and the surface type "large-scale demolition and construction".
- Image Credits
- Photography: Jin Weiqi
