The Park Era Sales Centre is located within
the northeast area of the Ankang High-Tech District. Being located on a traffic
intersection, the building¡¯s western and southern facades serve as major urban
interfaces. A grand canopy extends out on the west and south sides of the
building allowing a strong sense of horizontality, not only creating a series
of under-canopy grey spaces, but also a wide terrace at the upper level. This
strategy reinforces the expression of the two interfaces.
The main body of the building is enveloped
with a glass curtain wall, giving the impression of a crystal cube. Throughout
the day, sunlight or artificial lighting irradiates building in different ways,
combined with the glass that reflects the city and the courtyard, whilst revealing
the interior scene of the building. These visual effects become overlapped,
giving the architectural skin a kind of uncertain illusory beauty. In addition,
the courtyard landscape uses the water as a mirror to produce a stunning mirrored
reflection. The entire place feels like a stage with light and shadow creating
both an unpredictable and serene atmosphere.
As a temporary building, the Park Era Sales Centre has a designed service life
of only 3-5 years. Thus to achieve rapid construction at a low cost, a steel
structure has been utilized for the main body of the building. Modularized
design is adopted to allow an integrated control over the curtain wall system,
structural system and indoor space using 300mm moduli. In order to create a transparent and welcoming
environment within the first floor reception area, every 2400mm width is considered as a
compositional unit which contains a 300m-wide recessed window and a 2100mm-wide
fixed glass. The second floor is used primarily as office space so the width of
glass curtain wall unit is halved for better privacy. The opening windows are hidden
within the recessed strips, ensuring the purity of the glass facade. The modularization
and detailing of the curtain wall not only creates a strong rhythm, but also coordinates
the relationship between the façade, indoor column grid and partition walls.
Location: Ankang, Shaanxi, China
GFA: 1,380 sqm
Client: Boyuan Real Estate
Design Team: Yongzheng Li, Qizhi Li, Teng Jiang, Bo Yang, Liang Deng, Yanfeng Lyu,
Shengli Zhao, Liye Chen, Nan Yu
Design Date: 11/2019 ¨C 03/2020
Construction Date: 03/2020 -06/2020