© Chen Hao
The transparent and hazy skin is dyed by light and shadow over time, overlapping with the city and waterscape like a synchronic collage, providing a new landmark and art space experience for the public walking along the path.
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Located in the Suzhou High-tech Zone, in order to help create an ecological art space on the city's waterfront and echo the concept of community participation in the future, Shenyuan Innovation Lab has built a unique small landmark for the site. The Ming Pavilion is located on the waterfront of the city, with the plane presenting an east-west direction, the east side as the entrance, and the west side facing the open water area where Longtan Port and Hudong Canal meet.
▲项目概览 ©DONG IMAGE
The design takes into account the need for a shared and open art space installation and the continuation of the historical context in the leisure environment of the new city.
▲Close-up of © the pavilion Chen Hao
Form and locality
The space prototype comes from the boat-style building in the traditional Suzhou garden, which is built on the water or protrudes to the water, and its semi-enclosed nature not only provides an inward-looking space, but also embraces the surrounding environment in a transparent and open way. The sill on both sides is leaning against King Wu, and there are usually carved hanging under the eaves.
▲Conceptual analysis © of Shenyuan Innovation Laboratory
▲Close-up © of Chen Hao
Mingting takes the meaning of clear and transparent. In the design of the Ming Pavilion, the two sides are formed into seats and flower ponds with pure terrazzo bases. The monolithic roof shaped by glass tubes extends from the edge to the height of the human eye, thus becoming an architectural space component with overlapping and framing scenes that are similar in function and form. The curtain wall formed by the hanging roof also allows the building to create a unique situation of invisibility and reflection in the prosaic urban landscape of the surrounding environment.
▲Night view © Chen Hao
The Ming Pavilion uses a structure similar to the beam-lifting style to concentrate the columns on both sides, pushing up the central axis space and building a completely exposed structure, and the sloping roof formed by the five-fold glass tube piles up the image of stacking on the angle of the traditional gable surface, which also echoes the stacked five-section horse-head wall in the traditional Gusu area dwellings. The entrance of the pavilion opens at one end to face the large trees preserved in the site, and the arc-shaped feature of the closed space at the end emphasizes the reproduction of the enveloping experience when riding in the boat.
▲Comparison of interior space Chen © Hao
Light and shadow
The gradual change in height of the arc affects the length of the beam, which causes the glass tubes arranged at equal distances to form small dislocations in different layers of the façade, and also enhances the visual density of the dynamic flow horizontally. The vertical shape of the glass tube creates a visually and massively thick roof like a flipped crystal chandelier, and its characteristics also allow the roof to accept both natural light and artificial light sources to recreate its optical image. The transparent and hazy skin is dyed by light and shadow over time, overlapping with the city and waterscape like a synchronic collage, providing a new landmark and art space experience for the public walking along the path.
▲ Light and Shadow © Chen Hao
Project drawings and models
© ▲Model Liu Qinrong
▲Epidermal © texture Liu Qinrong
▲Close-up © Liu Qinrong
▲Axonomic bathymetry © innovation laboratory
▲Site plan ©: Shenyuan Innovation Laboratory
▲Roof plane © Shenyuan Innovation Lab
▲Floor plan © Shenyuan Innovation Lab
▲South façade © Shenyuan Innovation Laboratory
▲West façade © Shenyuan Innovation Laboratory
▲Sectional view © of Shenyuan Innovation Laboratory
▲Detail node © Shenyuan Innovation Laboratory
项目名称：明亭 Pavilion Lucida
Project Type: Exhibition Hall/Landscape InstallationDesigner: Shenyuan Innovation LabContact Email: [email protected] Project Design: 2022Year of Completion: 2023Design Team: Creator: Liu Qinrong. Project Members: Yao Lu, Xu ChaocaiProject Address: Wuyishan Road, Huqiu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province Construction Area: 15 ㎡ Photography Copyright: Chen Hao, DONG IMAGE Owner: Suzhou Science and Technology City Kexin Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. Client: Aicheng Think Tank (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Structural Design: Guangzhou Ruihua Architectural Design Co., Ltd. Construction Party: Shanghai Calibration Hejia Technology Co., Ltd.; Material: ultra-clear glass tube, steel structure, terrazzo brand: crystal porcelain AGP