Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum ab Zhe Wang

Opus Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum a designatore Zhe Wang est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Categoria Certaminis Architectura.

ArgentumArchitectura· 2022

Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum

a Zhe Wang

Cliens: Beijing Sza Architectural Design Consultant

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Categoria Architectura

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Designum

De Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum

Xizhimen Port est aedificium habitationum Pekini in Sinis situm. Structura decem tabulatorum saeculo vicesimo, annis octogesimis, exstructa est et postea pro iuvenibus urbanis inquilinis renovata. Nova frons ex marginibus fenestrarum aluminicis constat, qui a pariete exteriore prominent. Hi margines trabes columnasque nudatas aedificii pristini disponunt et spatium pro machina aeris temperandi cuiusque cubiculi praebent. Intra singulos margines, color a colore aurantiaco in summo ad flavum pallidum in imo mutatur. Fenestrae in parietibus orientali et occidentali additae lucem diurnam quinquaginta centesimis augent.

Agnitio

De Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Xizhimen Port Aedificium Habitationum creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Post Designum

Fasciculus Nuntii

Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares: 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.
Dimensiones et Involucrum: Floors: 10-story
Site Area: 2872sqm
Total Area:11000sqm
Notulae: Architecture renovation, Facade design, Residential, Apartment
Technologia Productionis: 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.
Provocatio Designandi: 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.
Investigatio: 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.
Inspiratio: 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.
Duratio Operis: This project completed in Oct. 2018 in Beijing, China.
Cursus Operationis: 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".
Membra Turmae: Wang Zhe
Shi Wei
Wen Zewei
Wang Meilin
Zhang Yan
Han Qi
Hong Wei
Agnitiones Imaginum: Photography: Jin Weiqi