Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2020
We Share Micro Nest Public Welfare Architecture
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Tengyuan Design
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About We Share Micro Nest Public Welfare Architecture
We Share Micro Nest is a pair of small public welfare buildings created as shared city furniture in Qingdao. The Reading House uses a rotated square timber frame, where native wood forms both the structure and the outer skin, and has a building area of 16.8 square meters. The rest station for sanitation workers is based on a cube with two panels that open inward and outward, and the shell is clad in colorful aluminum plate. Both structures make public resources easier to share and invite residents to take part in community life.
Tengyuan Design's We Share Micro Nest Public Welfare Architecture emerges from a rich tradition of community-oriented architectural practice that recognizes the transformative potential of thoughtfully designed public spaces within urban environments, positioning itself within contemporary discourse surrounding accessible cultural infrastructure and the democratization of architectural quality. The work demonstrates remarkable formal sophistication through its synthesis of parametric computational methodology with warm, humanistic material expression, the undulating timber canopy achieving a sculptural presence that elevates what might otherwise be a modest programmatic intervention into a genuine architectural landmark. Technical accomplishment reveals itself in the precise fabrication and assembly of the slat system, each timber element cut and positioned with mathematical exactitude to describe a complex three-dimensional surface that appears almost to breathe with organic vitality, the progression of angles creating a sense of movement frozen at its most dynamic moment. The chromatic warmth of the natural wood, ranging from pale honey through deep amber, establishes an immediate welcoming quality that invites approach and entry, the material choice suggesting values of sustainability, craft authenticity, and connection to natural systems. Thematically, the work appears to explore the possibilities of architectural generosity within constrained urban contexts, the sculptural canopy simultaneously providing practical shelter and shade while offering an experience of beauty and wonder to passersby, this dual functionality embodying the project's welfare mission. The iconographic vocabulary draws upon shell forms, wave dynamics, and protective gesture, the sweeping profile evoking associations of embrace and sanctuary while the rhythmic slat pattern suggests both traditional craft traditions and contemporary digital fabrication capabilities. One might consider how the interplay between organic form and precise geometry reflects broader cultural conversations about the relationship between technological capability and human-centered design, the work ultimately proposing that computational sophistication serves its highest purpose when directed toward community benefit and accessible beauty.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- We Share Micro Nest, the first public welfare community construction practice project initiated by the architectural design firm in the country, to build a city furniture for citizens to share. Designers hope to attract public participation with behavior by building such a miniature "city plug-in", they will contribute more to urban public services and become responsible for their communities, thus activate the spiritual vitality of the entire district.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Reading House covers an area of about 23.9 square meters and a building area of 16.8 square meters. The building height is 4.3 meters. The rest station for sanitation worker covers an area of about 81.5 square meters and a building area of 7.87 square meters. The building height is 2.85 meters.
- Tags
- Architecture, City Plug-in, Public Welfare Building, Rest Station, Reading House, Natural, Elegant, Cultural
- Production Technology
- Reading house uses the rotation of the square wooden frame to express the gravitational force of the interior space, while forming a smart exterior shape. Native wood is selected to realize the skin is the structure. The rest station is based on a cube, two pieces of maintenance door panels can be opened to the inside and outside. The shell interface is the main image display, and the colorful aluminum plate is used to create a rich visual and environmental experience.
- Design Challenge
- It is a challenge for designers to achieve the unification of structure and exterior styling. Even a small space of less than 20 meters blends the minds of architects and structural designers. In order to ensure the safety and practicability of the Reading House, the base is reinforced in structure, and the on-site construction is checked. At the same time, it simulates the structural stability of the book house under various external harsh weather conditions.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2018 in Qingdao and finished in July 2018 in Qingdao.
- Operation Flow
- In addition to meeting the functions, urban renewal should pay more attention to people's psychological feelings and life experience. Therefore, a behavioral memory point is preserved in the site design, which broadens the tread surface of the kindergarten wall, so that residents can watch the activities inside the kindergarten more safely. At the same time, it also wants to stimulate new behavioral memory points, and combine human behavior with the big trees in the middle of the field.
- Research
- With the development of the times, the transition from rapid incremental growth to slow stock development in many cities have been completed. So many of the architectural practices we have done in the process of urban renewal are also more suitable for a bottom-up approach, from the individual level to the complex city level, using urban plug-ins to activate the area, building an open platform, and achieving public urban design consensus.
- Inspiration
- The purpose of this design is to explore the possibility of interaction between social groups, and to make efficient use of public resources from the perspective of environmental protection and energy conservation. Taking this as a starting point, designers hope to provide people with a platform to share resources through city plug-ins.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Kai Wang, Reading House, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Kai Wang, Reading House 2, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Kai Wang, Reading House 3, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Kai Wang, Rest Station, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Kai Wang, Rest Station 2, 2018. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Tengyuan Design, 2018.