KENNAWAY ESTATE GRANTED,
CHONGQING
AOE
Chongqing is a poetic land with half of the city, half of the
mountain and trees cover thousands of miles. The project is
located in Nanshan, Chongqing. Nanshan, located on the south
bank of the Yangtze River in Chongqing, has a wealth of tourism
resources including natural scenery, cultural landscape, and
specialties. In recent years, Nanshan has successively appeared
some commercial buildings with cultural connotations such as
bookstores and homestays. These buildings are simple in design
and distinctive in shape, which has made Nanshan gradually
become a synonym for elegant and introverted. And its artistic
conception corresponds to Tao’s poetry.
In people’s haunt I built my cot;
Of wheel’s and hoof’s noise, I hear not.
How can it leave on me no trace?
Secluded heart makes a secluded place.
I pick fence-side asters at will;
Carefree I see the southern hill.
The mountain air’s fresh day and night;
Together birds go home in flight.
What revelation at this view?
Words fail me if I try to tell you.
——Yuanming Tao
Therefore, we refine the traditional architectural culture and natural
landscape of Nanshan as the main tempo, and use modern technical
language and artistic creation techniques to transform it into our
architectural language, so that visitors can experience the artistic
conception of “ hidden in the nature”.
The entire project has two parts, the sales office and the commercial
part. The sales office has a small scale but exquisite and delicate.
It is naturally engraved and hidden in nature, thus highlighting the
concept of “seclusion”. The facade uses the perforated plate as the
louver to protect the sunshine, and the shape of louver is inspired by
the cloud of Nanshan. The perforated leaves float around the curtain
wall. It resembles a long scroll landscape painting, and its changes
show the shape of the clouds and fog that stretches in the Nanshan.
The glass curtain walls with gradual mist and perforated louvers are
integrated so that the whole building seems floating in the clouds.
At the same time, there are spraying device will create fog around
the building every day. It makes the natural fog become another
layer facade for the building, creating a wonderland of Nanshan. The
building is not only an architecture but a cultural event.
Technical sheet
Project Name: Shanxiao Sales Pavilion, Chongqing
Architecture Firm: aoe
Leader designer & Team: Larry Wen, Liu Chen, Li Pengyong, Niu
Zhuojun, Yang Kaiqi
Completion Year: 2019
Gross Built Area: 1026 2
Photo credits: Huang Ligang
Clients: Lianfa & Sunac
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