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Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal

Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal

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CATEGORY
Exhibition Center 

LOCATION
Tonglin City, China

PROJECT YEAR
2013

PHOTOGRAPHS
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ARCHITECTS
Waa

AREA
12,000 Sqm 

Situated in the middle of the iron-copper-gold polymetallic metallogenic belt of the middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Waa's winning entry for the Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center houses the future aspirations for future generations.

Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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Focusing on their design through 'Making', they found inspiration of architectural language in the process of fabrication in this regions mining industry. More images and architects' description after the break.

This rich abundance of metal ores and specifically copper has made the city historically, a focus for technology development throughout ancient china.

Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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The city is now in the process of large infrastructure and local wellbeing enhancement. This exhibition hall houses the future aspirations for future generations; it is indeed a city in the process of 'Making.'

Copper is soft and malleable and when alloyed with other metals a versatile material. Its properties and crafting is observed and implanted in the architecture directly, through analyzing how we may craft copper we formed the architecture by replicating existing manufacturing techniques.

Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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Tonglin City Planning Exhibition Center Winning Proposal
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Through squashing, rolling, bending and melting our notional copper material this palate of tools offers an ideology of design ingrained in local practices undertaken for millennia. Our novel proposal offers an identity firmly placed within the local realm.


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