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Shanghai Chess Academy

Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy

Tongji Architectural Design

PHOTOGRAPHS
Zystudio

AREA
12424 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Shanghai, China

CATEGORY
Cultural Architecture, Institutional Buildings


NOISY / PEACEFUL

Situated at the bustling West Nanjing Road in Shanghai, the building site of Shanghai Chess Academy is long and narrow. It’s 140 meters long from north to south and 40 meters wide from east to west.

Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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The essence of Chinese traditional architecture is presented by fusing gardens and walls and recreate traditional space with modern approach.

The existence of gardens fills the whole building with Chinese implication while creating an integral form.A sequence of programs is arranged correspondingly, which are the open lobby, the public game hall and the exhibition rooms.

Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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Presenting itself quietly and peacefully at the busy West Nanjing Road with heavy commercial flavor, it segregates itself from the surrounding buildings and highlight its own cultural image.


OPEN / INTROVERTED

The "pocket" site of Shanghai Chess Academy is long and narrow. It’s 140 meters long from north to south and 40 meters wide from east to west.

Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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The space closed to commercial street is open, but the inside space of "pocket" is introverted.

In width direction, the void and real spaces are staggered together from the inside to the outside.

Gardens are separated by the walls, while breaching the walls at the same time, striving for the exterior space within the limited sit.

Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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The “checkerboard” walls, like a light sieve, its void ratio following the internal space.

The layouts of programs follow the features of the site, along the long direction.

As people go inside, the characters of space transfer from dynamic to serenity, from extroversion to introversion.

Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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Shanghai Chess Academy
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A sequence of programs is arranged correspondingly, which are the open lobby, the public game hall and the exhibition rooms.


Shanghai Chess Academy
Axonomteric
Shanghai Chess Academy
Concept


Shanghai Chess Academy
Site Plan
Shanghai Chess Academy
Axonometric


Shanghai Chess Academy
1st Floor Plan
Shanghai Chess Academy
4th Floor Plan


TJAD Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tongji University Group Co., Ltd. 同济大学建筑设计研究院集团有限公司
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