Jinlin Royal Park

Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

Jinlin Royal Park 

Do Design Group

ARCHITECTS
Do Design Group

INTERIOR DESIGN
Ccd

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Belt Collins International

STRUCTURE DESIGN
Nanjing Xinghua Architectural Design&research Institute Co. Ltd

LIGHTING DESIGN
Rdesign International Lighting

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Zhixiao Zhang, Yuejie Huang

DESIGN TEAM
Wei Tang, Liwei Wang, Xuedong Tai, Han Wu, Erdong Chen, Panpan Ma

CLIENTS
New Hope Group, Sunac China, Shuili Real Estate

CLIENT PROJECT MANAGER
Yong Li

CURTAIN WALL DESIGN
Schmidlin Energy And Technology, Bangli Construction Engineering Co.ltd

CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
Nanjing Xinghua Architectural Design&research Institute Co. Ltd

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jianghe Zeng, Lingxiao Tang, Yanqing Jiang

AREA
2596 M²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Nanjing, China

CATEGORY
Services

Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

Text description provided by architect.

Nanjing enjoys a special status in Chinese traditional culture, as it is the “capital of the six dynasties” in history.

Therefore, we must think carefully about how to make use of its rich cultural heritage and give new value of modern culture to the project and the city.

Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang
Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng
Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

Over the course of time, the present is the past, and the past is also the future. The evolution of art and aesthetics is seeking an answer from the past. The symbols that have survived countless changes over the course of history have a thriving existence.

Then we find the symbols-the “brick” and “book ” from numerous historical and cultural relics of Nanjing, and make them the carrier of history and culture and part of our design. Moreover, modern elements are introduced to create a dialogue and collision between the “new” and the “old”.

Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang
Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

For Chinese people, Nanjing City looks modern and fashionable yet ancient and simple. Based on a deep understanding of Nanjing, we wish to design these two aspects into the entire demonstration area and attempt to give new cultural value to the city through the building.

The general layout of traditional buildings in Nanjing is characterized by front hall and backyard, showing a space with rites preceding nature.

Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang
Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang

We adopt this spatial layout: the front yard highlights a modern sense of rites by layered space, formal symmetry and tranquil setting; the back yard shows a space of nature and harmony by modern landscape. This is the very new user experience we want to add to traditional space.

As the carrier of culture, a building should come with cultural symbols to showcase its local harmony.We choose the “brick” symbol from numerous historical and cultural relics of Nanjing and create the demonstration area concept of “aesthetics of brick”.

Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang
Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

The “brick” element can be a solid and inclusive carrier of history to represent and shape our imagination of the place.

Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng

Nanjing has been the cultural capital of China since ancient times, so we select the “book” symbol to establish the facade image of the demonstration area.

Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang
Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng

The division between glass and solid wall makes the southern side of the demonstration area look like an opened book and scroll. We hope to deliver a new cultural experience with this image.

It is a special architectural design to show the effect of space on people, as the space itself is a kind of force field.We hope to produce an effect on people with such force field and use one space to guide another.

Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng
Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang

When it comes to the whole spatial sequence, we choose layer-by-layer scaling: from tranquil front yard to mysterious entrance to open back yard, the space reaches a climax in the end.

We give each space different meanings in this process to show our understanding of space.

We hope the whole design can bring the dialogue and collision between the “new” and the “old” and yield a sense of time-space overlap in the place.

Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng
Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang
Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng

Regarding an understanding of the “new” and the “old”, we not only use ancient cultural symbols and modern design techniques according to traditional spatial organization method, but also bring out the contrast with materials that convey a sense of the times.

The contrast between bright and transparent large glass curtain wall and ancient and solid black clay brick presents a complementary effect.

Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

As Chinese traditional building materials, ancient technique of making black clay bricks are gradually vanishing. To best achieve an ancient hallmark, we visit many places and find a suitable brick material finally.

Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang
Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng

Meanwhile, we explore new understanding and application of bricks through changing bricklaying methods like staggering, concave-convex and hollowing to further boost the virtual-real contrast for the façade.

Along with different bricklaying methods employed to increase solid wall details, light and shadows alternate as the sun moves in the daytime.

Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang
Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng

Apart from glass and black brick, we choose copper color for bricks that symbolizes nobility in Chinese culture, as it gives the façade a more elegant look and better matches the status of Nanjing known as the “capital of the six dynasties”.

We hope Jinlin royal park is a multi-scale integration of people, building and urban culture.

Such integration will give new value of modern culture to urban buildings, shape the way we live in cities and attempt to arouse our innermost memory and cultural identity of this place and this city.

Jinlin Royal Park
Landscape. Image © Lingxiao Tang


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© Jianghe Zeng
Jinlin Royal Park
© Jianghe Zeng
Jinlin Royal Park
Interior. Image © Yanqing Jiang

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