Fake Hills

假山




Year 2008
Location Beihai, China
Typology Residential Apartment
Site Area: 109,203sqm
Building Area: 492,369sqm
Building Height: Slab-106m; Tower-194m
Status Under construction
Throughout China's ultra-rapid urbanization, attention has been focused on set-piece architecture: opera houses, museums, stadiums. However these would-be icons form the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of development in China's new cities takes the form of residential schemes, often standardized and cheap to guarantee developers a quick return. Is it possible to build high-density, economically viable housing which is also architecturally innovative?

Our design for a new housing development is located in the coastal city of Beihai, on a long, narrow waterfront site. The design concept combines two typologies that most commonly define residential developments in China: high rise towers and long, low rise blocks. The result is a bold new structure, a long slab with an undulating roof and circular openings. This unique shape maximizes the views of the residents, but at the same time becomes a monolithic break between the waterfront and the land behind it.







The solution is twofold: to cut into the slab, creating a sculpted form which references the shape of the hills that dominate the region's landscape, and to cut openings through the structure, allowing views and light to penetrate the structure.

A further reference point is traditional Chinese architecture's intrigue with nature. Rather than sitting the building in a perfect, man-made natural garden, our structure becomes the man-made natural shape itself: fake hills on which the residents can live. The design provides both a high density solution and a new landmark for the city.


地点: 中国，北海
类型: 住宅区
基地面积: 109,203sqm
建筑面积: 492,369sqm
建筑高度: 板楼106m；塔楼194m

随着中国飞速的城市化建设，大众所有的注意力都转向剧院、博物馆 以及体育场等建筑上。然而这些所谓的标志建筑只是中国现行建筑模式的一些特例。绝大多数城市仍然是以的住宅开发项目为主，那些开发商大都会选择廉价和毫无特色的住宅方案，以谋求快速收回成本赚取利益。我们有没有可能拥有既高密度又经济可行而又有地标性的特色住宅呢？

本项目坐落于沿海城市北海，位于一条狭长的海滨区域。设计概念结合了两种常规定义的元素：高层/长形的塔楼，和低层板楼，在长形结构基础上创造出大胆的新型结构；这种结构可以最大程度的实现建筑内的远景观，但是它也一定程度的阻挡了海滨与内陆之间的视线。

我们通过两种手法解决此问题：在塔楼中间切出像山一样的造型，形成了自然的山体景观，并在建筑的结构上面开洞，空间、海滨景观以及采光都能通过这些开洞渗透进城市中。

与建造一座刻意的人工花园相比，我们的建筑本身就是一座人造的自然景观---一座供人们居住的假山。此设计本身既保证了建筑的密度，又形成了这座城市的新地标。







Associate Engineers: Jiang Architects & Engineers (JAE)
Structural Engineers: Jiang Architects & Engineers (JAE)
Mechanical Engineer: Jiang Architects & Engineers (JAE)

Design Team: Xue Yan; Xu Dongxin; Wang Wei; Tang Liu; Zhang Jie; Ren Xiaowei; Kristie Park; Dinah Zhang; Fernie Lai; Fu Changrui; Zheng Tao

设计配合: 上海江欢成建筑设计有限公司(JAE)
结构工程师:上海江欢成建筑设计有限公司(JAE)
电气工程师: 上海江欢成建筑设计有限公司(JAE)

设计团队: 薛雁, 徐东昕，王炜，唐柳，张婕，任晓伟，Kristie Park, Dinah Zhang, 黎紫翎,  傅昌瑞，郑涛