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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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ZHENGZHOU JIANYE FOOTBALL TOWN TOURIST CENTER

Shuishi

ARCHITECTS
Shuishi

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Jinwei Xu, Yuan Xie

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN(CLIENT)
Shuaifang Li

LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION
Houde Landscape Design

LANDSCAPE DESIGN(CLIENT)
Qian Han

INTERIOR DESIGN(CLIENT)
Xin Zhang

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
SHUISHI Landscape, Technology R&D Center, Li Shi, Jianjun Huang, Yongliang Zhang, Yan Wang, Weiruo Liu, Xuewei Tan, Jingxian Wu, Sunding Jiang, Dan Zhai, Yangxu Zhang, Wenzhen Wang

INTERIOR DESIGN COMPANY
Dejoy International Architects

LIGHTING DESIGN COMPANY
Sedian Lighting

SIGN DESIGN
Bujing Signage

DECORATION CONSTRUCTION
Jianxiang Decoration

CLIENT
Central China Real Estate Limited

PROJECT MANAGER(CLIENT)
Yu Liu

BUILDING ENGINEER(CLIENT)
Hengyong Su, Hua Zhao, Weiqiang Fan, Ning Li, Xiaoming Yue

RAMMED EARTH WALL CONSTRUCTION
Hunan Yuanyi Architecture Group Co.Ltd.

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Dahua Construction Project Management Co.Ltd

CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
SHUISHI Engineering, Construction team, Quanlin Zhu, Xiawei Du, Gang Yu, Jin Yin, Hui Li

RAMMED EARTH WALL CONSULTANT
Pengyu Guo, Zhidong Zheng, Ping Chen, Yuxin An, Jiancong Luo, HAS&Associates

MANUFACTURERS
HENAN ZHONGBO GLASS CO.LTD, Zhengzhou IceSnow Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SHUISHI Engineering - Micron Architecture Office (Youwen Wang, Shuai Zhang)

PHOTOGRAPHS
Yijie Hu

AREA
2725.0 m2

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Zhengzhou,China

CATEGORY
Tourism

Text description provided by architect.

Jianye Football Town, a town of sports aesthetics in the Cherry Valley Scenic Area, Erqi District, Zhengzhou, integrates in it the natural scenery, sports, recreation and culture.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
© Yijie Hu
Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
© Yijie Hu

According to the construction plan of the football town, a Jianye Football Town Tourist Center of about 3000m2 will be built at the main entrance to the football town on the platform southwest of Houzhang Highway.It will be the reception and exhibition space for the whole football town in the future.

The tourist center lies at the entrance and represents the image of the football town, and the owner, Jianye Group, naturally hopes that it is unique, eye-catching and unforgettable.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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The difficulty in the design lies in how the architect can design an original building that blends perfectly with the local environment.

The inspiration of the architectural design comes from the wind-accumulated landform of the local loess gullies, and an array of high and low walls, like continuous hills growing out of the loess platform, extend to the incoming tourists.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
© Yijie Hu

The low-profiled design that mingles with the environment expresses a respect for the place; however, the unified motif vocabulary presents the momentum and integrity of the architectural complex, and achieves a strong visual impact and shock.

The entire building is free of columns, and box shear walls are used as main load-bearing structure to support the steel floors and roof trusses.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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This is an extremely difficult challenge in terms of structure, which is used as the most straightforward expression of formal aesthetics.

The alternation of solid shear walls and clear glass walls also reflects the architectural unity of functional, formal and structural logics.

The facade of the building, in a bold attempt, uses rammed earth to pay respect to the region and the natural environment.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
© Yijie Hu

Subject to the scientific system design by the rammed earth consulting team and the texture and color control by the architectural design team, local primary color red clay and primary color loess are used as raw materials and upper and lower basic color gradations, and each layer of rammed earth is controlled at 150mm thick.

Rammed layer by layer, the earth creates a general effect that passes from ocher color to khaki from top to bottom.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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The tourist center of Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town is so far the tallest hand-built rammed earth building in the world. 

It is a practice that perfectly combines architectural functions, natural features, regional culture and contemporary aesthetics, and an exploration and bold attempt to combine traditional architectural techniques with contemporary construction techniques.

Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
© Yijie Hu

The integration of building with environment brings to the building a power that comes from this magical yellow land and the great nature. It's also the corporate culture and sportsmanship that Jianye wants to express.


Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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Zhengzhou Jianye Football Town Tourist Center
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