Shimao Longyin Leisure Center, Suzhou
Shimao Longyin Leisure Center, Suzhou
Lacime Architect
ARCHITECTS
Lacime Architect
DESIGN TEAM
Pan Xiaobo, Luo Xi,li Junchao,li Xibin,chen Shijie,wu Shuguang,chen Jing
CHIEF ARCHITECT
Song Zhaofang
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Landau
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Schran Images
DESIGN TIME
18 Months
COMPLETION
2018.06
BUDGET
$5m - 10m
AREA
1000 Sqft - 3000 Sqft
YEAR
2018
LOCATION
Suzhou, China
TYPE
Cultural › Cultural Center
SHIMAO LONGYIN LEISURE CENTER, SUZHOU
Urban development is a continued historic procedure; spaces and buildings of a city all profoundly record and bear histories and cultures of different time ; Suzhou is a city with full of humanistic spirit for “etiquette” and “poetry”.
Under the theme for “vivacious interest and charm, multitudinous taste and mood”, the leisure center combines inner space and landscape together, by using an asymmetrical spatial mode, creates a traditional space pattern of Suzhou Garden style.
Scenery is changed with walking, order is then coexist with elegant.
A walking route is well designed by architects, continuously and variably demonstrating each main space of the building, the interesting and funny flow line changing with transfer of view angle.
By creating 3 hierarchy court spaces along the flow line axis，symmetry and orderliness，the space sense and scenery changes with moving.
In order to meet lighting requirement of leisure center, glass curtain wall is used in facade of sinking yards.
By making use of glass rib, order spaces of traditional yard colonnade are formed.
The central pool is matched with simple dry landscape and other sceneries, with a sense of traditional Jiangnan temperament.
Seeing from the basement beneath the central pool, space experience and different material layering are highlighted.
The project attaches great importance to combination and transition of virtual and real space in aesthetic processing, adopts implicit and obscure architectural language and pursues profound and elegant artistic conception.
Take the consideration of traditional Suzhou housing that gable ends are relatively full, large blanks left, which sharply contrast to delicate details of the south main facade.
The flexible herringbone roof is edged by metal, tightly integrated with the white wall.
It is delicate but not complicated, simple but extremely exquisite.
