Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2021
Sino German Creative Park Four Building
by Public Architectural Design Institute
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Qingdao Institute of Public Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,539
- Verification code A52B6D5D45 · Verify this award
About Sino German Creative Park Four Building
Sino German Creative Park Four is a museum and cultural exchange center in Qingdao, China. The building stands on a north slope, facing the main park entrance, with a river landscape to the south. A Y-shaped layout gives the building three facades of floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls, each turned toward a different landscape area of the park. The three tips of the Y shape are slightly raised to form a sculptural outline. Fair-faced concrete shapes the interior and echoes the outdoor brick curtain wall. The design also improves the microclimate and stores rainwater.
The Sino German Creative Park Four Building by Public Architectural Design Institute represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary institutional architecture, demonstrating how thoughtful material selection and volumetric composition can create spaces that honor both cultural traditions and forward-looking programmatic ambitions. The building's sophisticated dialogue between load-bearing brick masses and the dramatically cantilevered glazed pavilion suggests a meditation on the relationship between earthbound permanence and aspirational transparency, between the weight of craft tradition and the lightness of contemporary possibility. The extensive employment of brick masonry, articulated through multiple bond patterns including standard coursework and elaborate perforated screens, evokes regional building traditions while demonstrating contemporary technical sophistication in achieving such varied textural effects within a unified material vocabulary. The timber-clad projection, with its warm vertical battens framing the expansive glass curtain wall, creates a focal point that appears to hover above the landscape, suggesting the interior programs within while maintaining dignified reserve appropriate to institutional purpose. One observes particular accomplishment in the handling of the perforated brick panels at right, where triangular voids transform heavy masonry into delicate lacework that admits filtered light while providing visual intrigue and environmental modulation. The integration with the gently bermed landscape suggests sensitivity to contextual relationships, allowing the building to emerge from rather than impose upon its setting. The compositional balance between horizontal extension and vertical emphasis, between solid mass and transparent void, invites contemplation of architecture's capacity to embody cultural values through material presence. Visitors might consider how the building's varied surfaces respond to changing light conditions throughout the day.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Located in the Sino-German D-Zone Creative Park in Qingdao, China, the project serves as a museum and the Sino-German cultural exchange center, contributing to the Sino-German communication. The entire park is based on the creative design which returns to nature, creating a green, waterfront, and artistic space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This building stands on the north slope of the Sino-German D-Zone Creative Park, facing the main entrance of the park and having river landscape in the south. The design needs to solve how to make an iconic building in the park and effectively utilize the rich natural resources of the park. Through sculptural methods, the architectural form adopted a Y-shaped layout. The three facades of Y adopt floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls to face different landscape centers in the park. What's more, the three tops of the Y shape is slightly raised to enhance its iconic and sculptural characteristics.
- Tags
- Building, Museum, Brick, Architecture, Landscape
- Production Technology
- Fair-faced concrete is the main material for the interior space, which echoes to the outdoor brick curtain wall. It is a veritable eco-friendly concrete: the concrete structure does not need decoration, so chemical products such as coatings and finishes are omitted; the fair-faced concrete structure is formed at one time without chipping repairs or plastering, reducing a plenty of construction wastes and protecting the environment.
- Design Challenge
- Taken into account the three-sided upturned shape of the building, the interior is designed to be naturally flowing down on three sides, converging in the central pillar. There is no any other pillars in the rest of the building, which has achieved a transparent and open indoor space effect. At the same time, in order to accurately set the shape of the irregular pillar in the hall, it is parameterized to facilitate construction. The architects focused on the coordination between the small environment around the building and the context of the park, so that the building can truly be integrated into the park.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2015 and finished in July 2019 in Qingdao, China.
- Operation Flow
- Using topographical simulations, different natural topography is shaped according to the landform characteristics of each state. The design emphasizes the continuity of ecology by blending forests in different terrains to form a natural three-dimensional garden. Through the design techniques of natural landscape and the combination of art and the shape of the earth, the design makes the topography of the whole park full of texture changes, enhances the overall artistry of the park, and highlights the minimalist design concept.
- Research
- Design is not to create landscape, but to integrate design into nature and add more natural vitality to nature. The project has improved the microclimate and stored rainwater, thus, created a good ecological environment.
- Inspiration
- With the mix of evergreen and deciduous trees, it creates an ideal display and working environment. In the heart of the site, it is the central area, which is not only the focal point of vision, but also provides people with a place to relax. The project has improved the microclimate and stored rainwater, thus, created a good ecological environment.
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