Tianyi Lake Dream Town

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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TIANYI LAKE DREAM TOWN

Idea

ARCHITECTS
Idea

AREA
9500 m²

LOCATION
Tai'an, China

YEAR
2016

MANUFACTURERS
Guang Zhou Wan Lian Jian Cai Ltd, Shang Hai Fongly Group, Tai'an Best Architectural Technology Co. Ltd

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Yan Gao, Xin Guo

CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS DESIGN
Tongjian-Qianghua Architectural Design CO.,LTD

CONSTRUCTION
Shandong Taishan Puhui Construction Engineering CO.,LTD

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Xin Guo, Bin Wu

CLIENTS
Taian Tai Mountain Da Wen Kou Tourism Development LTD

PHOTOGRAPHS
Qingshan Wu

CATEGORY
Cultural Architecture

PROJECT TEAM
Jingyi Li, Hongjie Xu, Haixia Zhang, Wenying Huang

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Dream Town is a center which offers interactive learning and entertainment experience to kids through playing adult roles in different professions.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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The design started from two challenges: How to achieve the coherence between the iconic effect and the site context, i.e. by the Tianyi Lake and near two small hills, so that the architecture roots into the site while celebrating its own identity. 

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Secondly, How to design a building that accommodates a “city” inside? The interior is in fact a miniature town, housed by the architecture.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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To respond the two challenges, the design team engaged the physical site constrains, i.e. the two small hills and the lake front, by pressing the original mass into a series of curvy outlines.

Meanwhile, inspired by the pattern of the urban fabric from stereotypical water-front cities,a generic city layout including streets, corners, plazas, plots and building blocks, was deployed to the inform a collection of curvy volumes based on the programmatic distribution principles.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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With one singular mass broken down into multiple volumes, the massive impact of the building scale is reduced profoundly in respect of its surroundings.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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The facade designed is based on ripple patterns and dynamic colour effect to inspire children’s imagination.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Through parametric design and computational optimization, the design team managed to achieve the recognizable ripple patterns with only 17 different types of panels compared to the original hundreds of unique panel types.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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The project was completed and opened to the public in Oct, 2016. And it has been widely praised by parents and kids since then.It is expected that as soon as the outdoor play zones is eventually in full operation, the edutainment mall will offer children more diversified experiences.

Tianyi Lake Dream Town
© Qingshan Wu


Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
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Tianyi Lake Dream Town
© Qingshan Wu


Tianyi Lake Dream Town
Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan


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Material Structure
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Structural Optimization
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Traffic analysis
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Volumes and Form


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Diagram
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Diagram

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Diagram


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Concept
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Concept


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Elevations
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Elevation
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