Hangzhou Vanke Times Commune
Create a small “complex” by inward operation method.
The interior of the original building features a lighting atrium and a sightseeing elevator as the main spatial features and equipment. With the sightseeing elevator slowly go up, you will feel like space is static when you facing indifference atrium facade. This original structure and visual experience determine our design work start from the facade, use inward operation method to create a small “complex”.
In the design strategy, we did not start with a certain style, but insisted on doing work on the flat and the facade, and then intervening in the space form and materials. We trying to use the vertical linkage of the atrium to activate the linkage between the functions of each layer. In turn, it forms a concentric atmosphere of shared space, which is also a response to the future development plan of Binjiang District.
Our initial plan was to first add a ladder for the roadshow to rest in the atrium, as well as a staircase that leads directly to the third floor. And with the help of the original overhanging platform from the floor slab, adding the external rest space to the atrium facade by removing and widening the part of the abutment.Through direct treatment of the atrium facade, we trying to break the clear spatial boundaries between the layers,strengthen the association between the layers and the spatial centripetality, and then gather the visual focus.
However, the first plan was stopped because of the building estate insisted that winkling platform could not be demolished. So we redesigned the staircase without removing the winkling platform, use plane language to make an orderly color treatment of the atrium facade, make it a whole. This kind of “random response” brings another kind of spatial experience, which is reminiscent of Choi Hung Estate.
The building has two main entrances, east and west. At first, the owner only wanted to build a main entrance on the west side, but combined with the overall planning and format of the park, we believe that both should be treated as the main entrance. This can create more commercial value.
