Customer Heart of Kunshan City Ecological Forest Park / Atelier Archmixing
Textual content description supplied by the architects. Kunshan City Ecological Forest Park is positioned northwest of Kunshan Metropolis, roughly 4 km from the town heart, overlaying a complete space of three,150 m2. It’s a metropolis park open to the general public freely. On the left facet of the south entrance, alongside the river, there was initially a gross sales workplace with a website space of roughly 1,310 m2. To make good use of this land, the proprietor determined to construct a brand new customer heart right here. The brand new constructing will probably be used for complete providers, park and concrete administration. It was additionally anticipated that the constructing could possibly be built-in with the panorama. We have now additionally observed that there’s a massive inexperienced area to the north of the location, slightly unattractive, so we determined to incorporate this area within the design for guests.
The design will not be advanced in any respect; we’ve created a small architectural cluster by adopting an method known as “breaking apart the entire into elements”. Every half has versatile features to fulfill preliminary a number of wants and adapt to potential future adjustments. Guests can attain the woodlands and waterfront within the again by passing by the cluster. A few of these small buildings are coated by a sq. perforated steel grille roof. Such design creates a semi-covered out of doors area, for internet hosting public actions and as a lounge area. To be exact, it’s a pavilion-like area.
When it comes to type and spatial group, the design may be vividly described as “small homes and enormous pavilions”. The small homes are two-story, designed with pitched roofs. Their floor is manufactured from natural-colored aluminum-magnesium-manganese panels and glass. The skinny-gridded roof cowl measures roughly 22m x 32m sq. and is total in deep grey, with glass roof covers within the center to stop rainwater.
The construction of this roof adopts thin-walled metal plate sq. models with a dimension of 1.8X1.8m and a peak of 700mm, which varieties a perforated grid single beam. Throughout the composed grid beam system, areas between beams are stuffed with aluminum plate grids of the identical dimensions (plan 300x300mm, peak 700mm). Each the metal plate and aluminum plate are in a deep grey. At this level, a 300mm sq. thin-walled grid roof cowl is visually built-in. It appears to be like like a homogeneous construction.
This distinctive roof originated from one other design that we didn’t implement earlier than. The unique design aimed to experiment with an all-steel thin-walled sq. grid roof as the general roof overlaying of the constructing. After calculating the photo voltaic altitude angle, we concluded that to realize a shadowless indoor lighting setting with pure homogeneous gentle all yr spherical, the roof thickness has to succeed in 900mm. Sadly, this former design was not applied. Within the present design, the “giant pavilion” in Kunshan, we opted for a thin-walled grid roof, which is a simplified and cost-saving construction. Within the meantime, by calculating the photo voltaic altitude angle, quite the opposite, we aimed to create an setting with shadows the place guests can have a second of forest, underneath the sunshine and mottled shade.
