Architects: BURO II & Design Institute of China CITIC
Location: Guangzhou, China
Structural Design : Laurent Ney & Partners (Belgium)
Landscape Design: Stefaan Thiers en Denis Dujardin (Belgium)
Facade Engineering: Van Santen & Ass. (France)
Interior Design: Lens°Ass (Belgium)
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Philippe van Gelooven
This project recently won the civic category at the World Architecture Festival
The local authority of Guangzhou decided to develop a congress centre at the edge of the historical landscape of the Baiyun Mountains. The new congress centre will function as generator for the further urban development of the city of Guangzhou.
The congress centre is integrated in a system of physical and visually open connections between the city and the mountains. The primary principle is the merging of landscape and building. The ‘fingers of nature’ penetrate the site; the mountains are brought into the city.
The concept is an open modular system of flexible spaces. Functions are grouped through the horizontal and vertical modulation. The horizontal modules house general services, foyers, catering exhibition space, VIP areas, offices… The vertical modules are meant for specific facilities, including a congress hall for 2500 people.
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- site plan
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- level -01 plan
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- level 00 plan
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- level 01 plan
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- level 02 plan
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- level 03 plan
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- level 04 plan
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- roof plan
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- front elevation
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- back elevation
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- section 01
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- section 02
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- section 03
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- section 04
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- section 05
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- detail 01
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- detail 02
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- circulation diagram
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- ecology plan diagram
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- ecology section diagram
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- exploted diagram
I love the strange window arrangement! These are truly monolithic.
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It looks a little bit like an armada of Jawa sand crawlers from Star Wars. In a good way. This is pretty monumental stuff. The only thing that disappoints me are the conventional marble-clad columns…a bit of a letdown, but only because the rest of it is so strong. GREAT project documentation, too. Love the drawings and diagrams!
It is pleasant to me.
this project is very hard to follow and understand. These huge masses stands there like a landmark, and that is all I get from it. however, these masses are not interesting, sort of 1990s architecture style, by the way, what is new? what is the essence of this project? Maybe, the essence is out of the masses, could be the exterior corridors? so pity, I could not find any inspiration from its landscape design. The diagram of ecological section is totally superfical and wrong. why it is ecological? how energy is saved? what is the treatment/technology applied on it? in conclusion, there is nothing new, maybe just another formulism architecture.
I can’t tell if some of those pics are renders or photos.. the people look awkwardly misplaced in some of them.
maybe i’m going crazy
Some of the details make strong impression. But the architectural language is very much imperial: photo with too girls between those huge masses shows what I meen. Human scale is lost in this project.
i totally agree with
don’t like it.No human.