Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2021
Qingdao Marine Park Exhibition Center Building
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Shenzhen Huahui Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,318
- Verification code 6506BC0802 · Verify this award
About Qingdao Marine Park Exhibition Center Building
Qingdao Marine Park Exhibition Center is a building designed for a marine technology and smart industry park in Huangdao District, Qingdao, China. The exhibition center is the core building of the new district and represents the image of the whole park. The main structure is steel-reinforced concrete, which supports the long upper floors and the overhang. The outer walls form a double-glazed glass curtain wall, and the first floor is clad in black granite. A glass box of 100 meters extends at the top and appears to float above the dark base.
The Qingdao Marine Park Exhibition Center Building by Cheng Xiao represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary institutional architecture, engaging with enduring questions of how built form might embody the dynamic qualities of marine environments while fulfilling programmatic requirements for public exhibition spaces. The structure's most striking formal gesture involves the dramatic cantilever of the upper volume, a translucent parallelogram that appears to hover weightlessly above its angular granite base, suggesting perhaps the lifting motion of a wave crest or the emergence of crystalline forms from oceanic depths. The architect seems to have developed a sophisticated material strategy that positions the ethereal against the earthbound, employing a luminous frosted facade system that captures and transforms natural light into soft opalescent effects while grounding this aerial gesture in dark stone masses that speak to geological permanence and coastal bedrock. The vertical screening elements articulating the upper facade create subtle rhythmic patterns that may evoke the linear qualities of water movement or the geometric precision of marine organisms, demonstrating how contemporary parametric design approaches can reference natural systems without resorting to literal representation. The monumental stepped approach establishes a ceremonial procession that elevates the act of entering into a meaningful threshold experience, inviting visitors to transition from the everyday realm into spaces dedicated to contemplation and discovery. One observes how the building's angular geometry creates dynamic visual relationships that shift as one moves around the structure, activating multiple readings and refusing singular static interpretation. Viewers might contemplate how this work participates in broader architectural conversations about dematerialization, structural expression, and the potential for public buildings to inspire wonder while serving practical cultural functions.
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- Unique Properties
- The Qingdao Metro CRLand International Marine Intelligent Park Exhibition Center is located in Huangdao District, Qingdao. The park occupies about 2 million square meters of land, making it a benchmark and model construction project in the Huangdao marine technology zone.The Exhibition Center is not only a core building of the new district, but is also representative of the image and position of the entire intelligent park, and has unique importance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Area: 6951㎡ Gross Floor Area: 6204㎡
- Tags
- Exhibition Center
- Production Technology
- The main body of the Exhibition Center features a steel-reinforced concrete structure to meet the stress demands of the long upper layers and the overhang. The outer walls are a double-glazed glass curtain wall. The first floor uses Ukrainian black diamond granite, and the ceiling is made of a honeycombed wire drawing stainless steel plate.
- Design Challenge
- Main roads, metro tracks, and other large-scale urban features form the background of the Exhibition Center. How to put the Exhibition Center in a dialogue with the surrounding city? How to integrate the architecture with local regional culture, and achieve its own meaning? How to make a 6200-square-meter Exhibition Center speak for a 2-million-square-meter new industrial park? These are the primary design considerations.
- Project Duration
- Completion Year： 2019.05.15
Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China - Operation Flow
- The design is concise and minimal, with the "glass box" extending at the Exhibition Center's top devoid of unnecessary facade details. The struts supporting the glass wall are not only structural components but also an indispensable detail of the building's facade. The 100-meter glass box seems to float in the air, with the arrangement of the struts giving it a sense of layering and uniqueness. The unity of form and structure makes the facade minimal, vivid, and unique, clearly presenting the building's internal logic, in a way that is rich with connotation.
- Research
- The closer you get to the essence of things, the more simple they appear, but to trace an essence to its source is complex and difficult.
Design is the same. Behind the simple facade is a response to the location, a dialogue with the city, and a return to the essence of the space. Qingdao Metro CRLand International Marine Intelligent Park Exhibition Center respond to the 2800-acre Ocean Smart New City with a simple and powerful design! - Inspiration
- The black walls and glass mirror each other-one is heavy while the other is light, one black, the other white. This creates a contrasting yet coordinated surface, that is simultaneously integrated with the site. The building resembles the huge waves of Lingshan Bay, at the foot of Mount Dazhu, pounding against the black reef on the shore. It possesses a grand sense of dynamism, representing the"heart of the ocean"within the marine smart park.
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