Duoyun Bookstore in Huangyan
DUOYUN BOOKSTORE IN HUANGYAN
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CATEGORY
Store
AREA
1726 m²
PHOTOGRAPHS
CreatAR Images
CHIEF ARCHITECT
Ting Yu
CONSTRUCTION TEAM
Taizhou Huangyan Municipal Garden Construction Development Co. Ltd.,
Xingwei International Home Furnishing Co. Ltd., Zhangjiagang Yujia Metal Decoration Co. Ltd.
DESIGN MANAGER
Shengrui Pu
PRE PROJECT ARCHITECT
Zhuoer Wang
POST PROJECT ARCHITECT
Shengrui Pu
DESIGN TEAM
Begoña Masia, Junzhu Song, Yaping Wu, Jiajun Wang, Lei Wang, Yunfeng Dai,
Minmin Zhang, Jianv Guo, Xiaoyan Wu, Xue’en Chang, Ye Lu, Wensui Zhang, Dong Meng, Yawei Jing
PROJECT ARCHITECT ASSISTANT
Kejie Mi
LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Chloe Zhang, Mingjie Cai
DESIGN CONSULTANTS
Office ZHU
THE CLIENT
Shanghai Century Cloud Culture Development Co., Ltd
CONSTRUCTION DRAWING DEVELOPMENT
Shanghai c-yuspace Design Co. Ltd., Shanghai Zhiye Architectural Design Consulting Co. Ltd.
The beginning of a design can be based on a mood. I envied the tranquility and pleasantness of this city, which is scarce in Shanghai. Suddenly, I decided there should be a cloud, calmly and slowly rising over the river.
Clouds have a sophisticated and pure beauty. Rather than perform cosmetic surgery on a collage of cluttered commercial territorial façades, I decided to wrap them in a continuous white perforated aluminum panel wall.
The continuous white creates a complex and pure interface on the riverside (by controlling the perforation rate, the façade creates a cloud of layers) hiding the bookstore.
The aluminum wall is the façade, or it can be stripped away to become a courtyard enclosure or both. The continuous white aluminum wall is used as an addition to create a serene and pleasant visual subtraction. A cloud rises over the riverside, and the readers of the bookstore are in the cloud.
Traditional Typology. The site of the academy is located in buildings 1 and 3 of a group of four buildings on the edge of the Yongning River. Building 1 is also composed of two buildings connected on the first floor as one.
The public space site has a basement patio and an evacuation stairwell. It is a place where the focal points are scattered and unfocused.
Traditionally, the "shuyuan" with scale and form are formed by a group of ordered buildings.
If I consider the scattered buildings 1 and 3 and the interior space as the type of pavilions and pavilions in a traditional building group, then it is obvious that such a building group lacks a courtyard as a focal point.
Since I needed a space to control these scattered individuals, creating a courtyard type was a natural choice for me.
I planned a square yard in the open space between buildings 1 and 3. However, this yard was hidden behind the fence between buildings 1 and 2 (other people's properties). I turned this courtyard into a front yard.
It became the official entrance of the bookstore. The first area is the lifestyle book (area), and the coffee (pavilion) on the east side is near the water.
I designed the staircase from the coffee to the second floor as a display (terrace) for reproductions of rare books combined with traffic. The second floor of the coffee is then the future urban parlor room (building).
An interior aisle has been added on the west side to Building 1. The first floor of Building 1 is the bookstore area, with the entrance being the unique Duoyun shelving area (kiosk) with attitude, and then turning north into the main bookstore display (hall).
After passing through the cashier's desk, you will enter the reading (dwelling) designed using the aisle, followed by the creative (house).
The upstairs of the cultural and creative area is an exhibition (museum). The upstairs of the bookstore is a stepped lecture area (room).
The second floors are all connected to each other by roof terraces. These (platforms) are a children's play platform, a mirror terrace, a discussion terrace with a fire pit and a labyrinth terrace as a coffee outing.
The advantage of borrowing the typological architecture of pavilions and courtyards is that the connection between the function and the architectural type of the garden makes it easier for an uneducated audience to understand and support my use of the new courtyard to transform the public space and integrate the buildings into an easily interpretable new courtyard.
The courtyard, later named Baiyunting, and its three side gardens (the front garden, the south garden, and the west garden) and the wall, integrate buildings 1 and 3 into a visually continuous complex.
Thus, a new courtyard architectural space is born out of the historical building type and rewrites a group of scattered commercial buildings, finally creating a new visual and spatial image.
Metaphors and Symbols of Colorful Clouds. I insist that architecture should be full of metaphors. We distilled the clouds into an easy-to-read formal symbol, turning them into doorways, logos and even UIs, while the white of the clouds covers all the background spaces of the building to reinforce the symbolic meaning in the clouds and represent the Shanghai of the clouds.
The orange color extracted from Huangyan's most famous orange not only represents the Huangyan of Duoyun, but also becomes the main color in the foreground of the entrance book and coffee area. From white clouds to orange clouds, it is easy to build a story about five-color auspicious clouds.
The bookstore area thus includes the green color in the foreground of the cultural and creative area. This is also the classic color in the Duoyun Bookstore series. More importantly, the blue as cyan has a special meaning in the local Taizhou area and cannot be used as the main color, so the classic green in the Duoyun Bookstore furniture series was chosen as the cyan cloud.
Crimson was chosen as the red cloud for the speech area on the second floor, and pink and purple was chosen as the purple cloud for the exhibition area on the second floor. The five different colors identify the different main functional areas. This is a further interpretation of the metaphor of clouds.
The story of the five colored clouds finally replaces the typological architectural borrowing as a prominent statement linking function, Shanghai, Huangyan, allusion, documentation, history and locality.
The richness of the clouds as a metaphor and the legitimacy of the symbolic use are reinforced. Thus, a "myth" of reading in the clouds is established.
