Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2023
Meishan East Town Centers and Base
by Dalu Architectural Design Firm
- A' Design Award 2023 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Dalu Architecture Design Firm
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,957
- Verification code CD4391C4EF · Verify this award
About Meishan East Town Centers and Base
The Meishan East New Town Three Centers and One Base not only needs to reflect the historical context of the city, but also have spatial attributes that provide consultation, service, education, culture and entertainment for the citizens. Blending into Nature, preserving the mountains and waters, To break the serious space impression of the traditional Citizen Service Center, Graceful curve and white architectural skin blends with the surrounding environment, making it attractive, Making it a unique cultural landmark in Meishan, increasing the environmental and land value of the area.
Wuxi Cheng Ao Real Estate Co., Ltd's Meishan East Town Centers and Base emerges as a distinguished exemplar of contemporary biomorphic architecture, demonstrating how large-scale civic and commercial structures can achieve dynamic formal expression while maintaining respectful dialogue with natural landscape contexts. The design appears to engage with parametric design methodologies pioneered in recent decades, where computational tools enable architects to realize complex curvilinear geometries that would have presented formidable construction challenges in earlier eras. The serpentine configuration suggests careful consideration of how built form might echo the organic contours of surrounding hillsides while simultaneously asserting its presence as a landmark destination within the developing urban fabric. Technical accomplishment manifests in the seamless integration of the flowing white roof membrane with supporting structural systems, the precise alignment of cladding panels across considerable spans, and the thoughtful fenestration strategy that balances transparency with thermal performance. The positioning of the structure alongside a central water feature demonstrates understanding of how reflective surfaces can amplify architectural presence while contributing to microclimate moderation and creating appealing public gathering spaces. Thematically, the work seems to explore tensions between human technological achievement and natural environment, proposing resolution through forms that honor both domains. The generous provision of landscaped areas and the preservation of existing vegetation patterns suggest commitment to biophilic design principles. Viewers might contemplate how this architectural approach represents evolving attitudes toward the relationship between built and natural environments, and consider what civic values such expressive public architecture embodies.
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- Unique Properties
- Located in Guiping Town, Renshou County, Meishan City (core area of future Meishan East New Town), the Three Centers and One Base of Meishan East New Town project is composed of a Citizen Service Center, a Conference Center, a Neighborhood Center, a Talent Center, a Library, and an Enterprise Headquarters Base. The independent Conference Center and Library are added to provide more space for citizen activities to improve the supporting services of the whole project.
The exterior of the building adapts to local conditions, adapts to mountains and lakes, and presents a beautiful curve. The clean and white architectural skin blends with the surrounding environment, making it attractive, making it a unique landmark building in Meishan, increasing the environmental and land value of the area. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Total length:144m, total width:74m, height: 17m ,Building area 22675square meter.
The middle arch of the main steel structure of the Citizen Service Center spans over 40m. - Tags
- Dalu Architecture, Meishan Citizen Service Center, Meishan East New Town Three Centers and One Base
- Production Technology
- The glass fiber reinforced concrete (GRC), which has strong plasticity, is used as the building surface material, aiming to reflect the beauty of the building curve and define the flexible architectural language.
The project adopts all steel structures, and the middle arch of the main steel structure of the Citizen Service Center spans over 40m, and adopts an arc truss structure in combination with the architectural model.
The combination of GRC and steel structure perfectly solves the streamline modeling and large-span structure problems of buildings. - Design Challenge
- The staggered streamline modeling of the GRC and glass curtain walls brings great difficulties to construction. The construction of junctions between materials, the waterproof system and the structural support system of the curtain wall are extremely complex. The upper and lower parts of partial glass curtain walls are glass curtain walls, which do not have structural support points, and can only be supported by the structural support system of the main steel structure column and secondary truss at the two ends of the 8-12m span, posing a great challenge to the overall design and installation of the curtain wall.
- Project Duration
- Design time:2020.5-2020.12
Construction time:2020.12-2022.1
Completion Time:2022.1 - Operation Flow
- The buildings here are not rigid, but flexible, adaptable and mobile. Group buildings have a distinct and strong atmosphere, providing you with reasonable private space in a coherent building group.
As an extension of the Citizen Service Center, the Conference Center is arranged nearby. The Talent Center takes the shape of mountains and integrates with the remote mountains and the background in the form of retreat platforms. Located in the deepest mountain depression, the Headquarters Base creates a quiet and beautiful office environment of forest headquarters with simple and scattered buildings. - Research
- Blending into Nature, Ethical Treatment of Ecology with Design, Respecting the site and preserving the mountains and waters. Following the environment-friendly principle of "not digging up the mountains or filling in the ponds", the design preserves the "green mountains and clear waters" on the site, and blends the architecture into nature.
- Inspiration
- Blending into Nature,As a cultural landmark in the Meishan East New Town, in addition to functioning as a building, the project should first be a free,open and ecological civil space and provides more places for civil activities,so that people coming here can interact with nature. Respecting the site and preserving the mountains and waters. Ethical Treatment of Ecology with Design,Flexible Architectural Language .
- Image Credits
- 图片#1：arch-exist photography,2022
图片#2：arch-exist photography,2022
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