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Cool Design News

Cool Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

The North Teaching Cluster of Zjuic

The International Campus of Zhejiang University (Zjuic) locates beside Juanhu Lake, China, occupying a land of 800,000 square meters with a gross floor area of 400,000 square meters. The campus's overall planning and design is based on 1 axis, 2 circles, 3 centers, and 4 zones. It absorbs the forms of relevant spaces and facades worldwide. The design enhances the guidance, fluidity, openness and publicity of the building complex by bridging the site’s north-south corridors and setting clear open spaces and routes.

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L011 Shingle

Through the poetic dimension of natural light, the discovery of shadow, and the light touch of sunlight, rooms were created with the intention to touch the heart and soul. The art of controlling the natural and artificial light in the interior concept brings an immediate physical involvement of the people in the changing seasons' underlines the volatility of the reality and the interdependence between humans and the natural environment. This requires an organic merge between architecture and nature.

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Disappeared Manufacturing

The overall concept is based on the traditional house in Taiwan, which reminds one of the good old times. Constructed via modern methods, the traditional vocabulary is reinterpreted through steel structure, glass and etc. A courtyard represents "Cheng" (a place for sun drying in traditional Taiwanese housing) is surrounded by different functional spaces. The mezzanine platform between two floors allows the flexibility of events. Allowing workshops, exhibitions and commercial events take place, the building is now a happening venue open for all, achieving a more positive corporate image.

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Dawn of Spring

The project is located within International Eco-Aquapolis, Zhengzhou. The building echoes with the street corner through the subtly-cut blocks. It's a three-story volume, with the second and third floors lifted above the transparent block at the bottom. Taking white color as the main hue, the architects restructured the facades through the combination of points, lines and planes. The upper facades of the main building body are composed of perforated plates, while the lower parts are clad in glass, which blur the boundaries between spaces.

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Yulonghu

The project is adjacent to Xuzhou New City Dalong Lake Scenic Area, a metropolitan top resource aggregation field integrating finance, education and stereoscopic landscape, with perfect surrounding commercial facilities and mature living atmosphere. The design continues the cultural deposits of the ancient capital, Xuzhou, adheres to the aesthetic mood of Chinese style, and fully explores the surrounding landscape resources to create a livable community center between mountains and water.

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Guobin Road

Focusing on the changing relationship between landscape environment and urban texture, a new look of jade can be seen through broken stones. With the help of modern materials such as stone and glass curtain wall, the natural artistic conception of simplicity can be expressed. The natural and organic combination forms in a disordered way construct a urban skyline, which makes people get along with nature, and achieves the harmonious communication among people, architecture and environment by means of multi space dialogue.

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