Platinum Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2021
Xi’an Vanke Yan Ming Lake Showroom
- A' Design Award 2021 Platinum Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Arch-Age-Design (AAD)
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 198,980
- Verification code 972BB1FC09 · Verify this award
About Xi’an Vanke Yan Ming Lake Showroom
Xi'an Vanke Yan Ming Lake is a showroom building located in Xi'an, China. The exterior form follows the lines of the nearby mountain and lake. A spiral structure on the second floor creates a viewing platform eighteen meters long. The curved outer walls act as blank surfaces, so light, shadow and nature complete the appearance. The facade combines fiber cement boards with weather-resistant steel plates, which reduce material waste and extend the life of the building. The transition space is open to the public for leisure and rest.
Arch-Age-Design's Yan Ming Lake Showroom emerges as a compelling meditation on the dialogue between geometric discipline and organic fluidity, positioning itself within contemporary architectural discourse that seeks to reconcile modernist rigor with the poetic sensibilities of Eastern aesthetic traditions. The structure's sweeping curvilinear profile, rising and falling like a brushstroke across the landscape, suggests an engagement with the calligraphic traditions of scroll painting while maintaining the technical precision of contemporary construction methodologies. The architects demonstrate remarkable compositional intelligence in their juxtaposition of the rectilinear bronze-clad entrance pavilion against the flowing white mass, creating a dynamic tension that activates the viewer's approach sequence and establishes a clear hierarchy of architectural moments. The material palette reveals sophisticated restraint, with the warm oxidized metal surfaces providing chromatic warmth that humanizes the otherwise crystalline white volumes, while the continuous ribbon of glazing creates a luminous seam that separates the solid roofline from the transparent ground level, suggesting the building floats above its reflecting pool. The integration of the water feature extends the architectural gesture into the landscape, doubling forms and creating contemplative spatial depth that invites pause and reflection. Ground-embedded lighting elements create a scattered field of illumination that suggests celestial bodies brought to earth, adding a dimension of wonder to the evening experience. The building's profile, with its gentle upward curve at the eastern terminus, evokes traditional roof forms while abstracting them into pure geometric gesture. What emerges from sustained engagement with this composition is an architecture that speaks to universal themes of threshold and arrival, shelter and openness, weight and weightlessness, inviting viewers to consider how contemporary architectural practice might honor cultural memory while embracing innovative formal expression.
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- Unique Properties
- The external appearance of the architecture replicates the trend of the mountain and the lake. On 2F, an 18 meter long viewing platform is formed through a spiral structure. Natural and flexible curves outline a sculptural form. Curved outer wall looks just like a series of blank canvases and the art of leaving blank makes nature act as the creator of architectural design. Plain palette, together with light and shadows creates a simple and pure world.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The area of project is 1338.4 square meter.
- Tags
- Xi'an, sales center, experience hall, leaving blank, nature, plain fiber cement boards, weather-resistant steel plates, minimalism, curves
- Production Technology
- The exterior facade features a combination of fiber cement boards with weather-resistant steel plates. Precisely customized arc and seamless surface have broken the restraint of minimal sculpture form. The cement-fiber board with a porous structure can save energy and materials with weather resistance can extend the architecture's lifespan, which benefit for the reduction of material waste and environmental pollution.
- Design Challenge
- A simple and neat architecture is supposed to calm people down while provoking thought. The project is presented in a minimalist form so that it has higher demands for architectural shape, materials, spatial layout, lighting, etc. In other words, the project team confronted challenges of techniques, materials, cost and others.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 and finished in March 2020 in Xi'an, China.
- Operation Flow
- Backed up by natural resources, the project blends community life with nature, and makes the transition space serve as public area open to the public, hence creating a new city landmark that provides a "shared and breathing space" integrating leisure, green and activity areas. The architects utilized blank spaces to make nature as the core, and selected materials that can not only save cost, but also achieve the sustainability, so as to draw people closer to nature.
- Research
- The minimalism of "Less Is More" is a very popular lifestyle and attitude toward life nowadays.
Throw away redundant things and select necessary ones to live a better life.
The urban aesthetics center besides Yanming Lake can improve the quality life of people in Yanta District.
Neat lines, plain palette, together with light and shadows create a simple and pure world. - Inspiration
- Reflecting on the initial intention, it is crucial to form a harmonious coexistence relationship among the mountain, the river, the lake and heaven. "Embrace the lake, Blend with nature" requires a real integration with the surroundings. In this way, the existence of the architecture will not break the precious balance in this area. These are the principles that the architects strictly follow when designing the project.
- Image Credits
- Photo by: ArchiTranslator
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