Context and Venue: A wonderfully beautiful site at the 809 Abandoned Arsenal Factory is located in Xialao Creek, outside Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, about a 30-minute drive from the city center. Formerly an army factory, it was closed and gradually abandoned in the 1990s. The allotment covers an area of approximately 3 hectares and a structure domain of approximately 13,000 square meters. The objective of the task is to protect and display the original appearance of the structures and to shape a new service of use through the transformation and reuse of the abandoned factory, in order to revive the abandoned commercial conveniences and help those who enter to a new life. The structures in the factory domain are divided into the hotel component and the entrance entertainment component. The hotel component consists of a lobby, an art showroom, 4 bedrooms, and a western restaurant. The entertainment support component includes the Reception Cinput, Chinese Restaurant, Book Bar, Time Room, Parent-Child Activity Cinput, and Rimrock Tea Bar. Among them, the newly built Rimrock Tea Bar has a warmer structure in the factory domain due to its special location and mild temperament.
Rimrock Tea Bar is located on a hillside southwest of the 809th Floor. On the one hand, a gentle slope connects the hotel buildings in the factory area; on the other side, due to the erosion of the mountain across the river, an exclusive steep cliff with karstic relief shapes. The herbal setting here is lovely. Located at the mouth of the cliff and west to the upper component of Xialao Creek, it has a perfect landscape and is a rare “lovely place” with herbal landscapes in the factory. What deeply impresses the design team is that state on the edge of the creek under the cliff, the stream water, the stone cliff and the plants in the most sensitive of the mountain form a very beautiful image.
The site is located on the hillside, which belongs to the end of the flow line in the factory domain, with great privacy. Coming to the site from the direction of the rooms, you have to climb a mountain road. reinforces the mystery of the site. Selecting the quick site of the structure will not only have to be close to the edge of the cliff as much as imaginable to unload a wonderful view, but also ensure some protection, which poses wonderful difficulties for the design team and the structure equipment. . After rigorous crisis research and rigorous geological study, the structure is located at the edge of the cliff, receding 3 meters from the edge. Beneath the surface layer of the soil, the base is a layer of hard limestone, which has been usable and provides intelligent architectural perspectives to the maximum extent under the precept of ensuring the protection of the structure.
Architectural design: light and ethereal In 2016, the owner proposed the concept of creating 50 “eye-catching photographic points” in the factory domain during allocation planning, of which Rimrock Tea Bar was thought to be the most sensible priority. hopes to reposition the boring atmosphere of the old factory through the design of a construction in the most sensitive of the cliff, in order to stimulate the energy of the old factory. The construction service is explained as a recreational tea bar, used Once finished, it will become a relatively personal and quiet recreational domain in factory dominance, and at the same time will have the most productive herbal environmental resources and a view of landscaping factory dominance, providing a sensitive living position with flavor and tone.
The starting point for design is to think of two pairs of variables: “complexity and simplicity” and “lightness and heaviness. ” The forged design of the construction starts from the simplest cuboid, the long aspect of which is perpendicular to the edge of the cliff, and is about 3 meters above the cliff as a whole. The back of the dice is supported by metal columns, forming a visual effect suspended from the cliff. Based on the landscape effect of the 4 viewing surfaces of the building, the design team improves the height of the most sensitive of the southwest corner and the northeast corner of the most sensitive square surface, and reduces the height of the most sensitive of the north corners. west and southeast. This replaced the original 4 oblong facades of the building block into another 4 trapezoidal facades, with the west and south aspects larger and the east and north aspects smaller. A torsional surface is formed by exposing the 4 aspects with other slopes on the most sensitive surface, which also makes the original single building block more dynamic and flexible. Building block design starts from “simplicity” and produces “complex and brilliant” visuals with “simple” design methods, allowing the building and its setting to have an overall dynamic and brilliant balance.
In order to explain the “soft” state of the construction in the environment, the design team selects the glass and white aluminum plate as building appearance materials. White aluminum panels are used on the east and north facades and ceilings to visually wrap the Large Domain Glass Curtain Walls are decided for the west and south facades, offering a continuous view domain for the interior space. The entire construction is supported by 8 metal columns. There are huge overhangs in the west and south. sides, and covered with shrubs at the back of the construction, the construction achieves the effect of being suspended in the air. The soft source is placed only the perforated component of the aluminum plate, which bureaucracy exclusive patterns at night.
Interior space: refreshing simplicity and distinctive prose The design team believes that in such an herbal environment, the interior area of the construction deserves to be quiet and undeniable, rather than being too confusing for people to see about the good appearance of herbs from windows. The interior of Rimrock Tea Bar adopts white and wood as the main tone. The wall and upper surface are undeniable white and the floor surface adopts a light, fluffy and warm wooden floor. Sunlight extends through the huge glass curtain wall. , bringing the beautiful landscape to the interior area.
The internal purposes of the construction are the tea room, bar, bathroom and laundry. The height difference is explained near the west look of the tea room, which bureaucracies a ladder to look west, and is also divided into separate areas, which brings adjustments. For the furniture of the space, the design team also opts for a comfortable fabric sofa and an undeniable chair, complemented by a small key lighting, which highlights the cool and quiet recreational atmosphere of the space.
The disclosed interior roof design fully demonstrates the charm of the area’s built-in design and design. Z-shaped metal plate beam adjustments with ceiling torque, shaping the effect of a three-dimensional curved surface and adjusting the sole In the roof design process, the design team followed an intelligent design method: although the final effect of the top surface is a crooked curved surface , is shaped through a direct-line rotary smoothing. The layout design is carried out, and it is concluded that each beam is a direct line, while the curved surface effect occurs only by adjusting the horizontal angle change. This design logic is not only direct and efficient, but also highly operational and extensive in the disposition process. In the interior area, the metal beams are set at a safe distance to shape a rhythmy sensation with order and ornamentation at the same time. Tural and constructive aesthetics that led the design team to absolutely disclose the layout of the ceiling.
Construction process: aggregative design with multi-professional cooperation As metal design design, the complex geological environment of Rimrock Tea Bar, the giant span protruding from the ground, the conversion of beams and columns and the specially shaped twisted roof become the structural design difficulties. Among them, the design and implementation of twisted roofs is not only the difficulty and highlight of the project, but also the result of the deep cooperation between architecture and design. As long as the sense of order of the design area and feasibility is taken into account, the design team divides the design ceiling into two opposite triangles along the diagonal line according to the 1. 5 m modulus. Through the exact tradition designed processing of the triangular surface, the torsion surface is specially shaped. The classic I-beam or box-beam design is not used for the interior ceiling, however, the traditional specially shaped sheet metal beam is used as a mode. The 40cm top sheet metal beam is placed on the axis of the roof and the diagonal line, which not only ensures the welding joint point of the metal triangle plate, but also features the unique rhythm and rhythm of sheet metal beam that becomes with the torsion of the roof. The ceiling exterior curtains also adopt the aluminum cladding profile ceiling directly for decoration, which further indicates and reflects the ceiling design concept.
As the interior area will have to be exposed, the lighting pipe in the most sensitive part of the plate must be located and arranged in advance before pouring the ceiling, which also tests the point of topical understanding of the design and structure between various disciplines.
Conclusion: Architecture and Nature, History and Contemporary Rimrock Tea Bar is the moment assignment related to the cliff of the practice 3andwich Design, which also pursues the reflected image of the design team in the dating between architecture and the herbal environment for a long time: the design will have to start from geographical, plant and location situations of the building, pay attention to the discussion between artifacts and nature Array respecting nature and expressing kindly the lifestyles architecture at the same time. Architecture will have to be symbiotic with its surroundings. The surrounding herbal environment provides the context, situations, and base of buildings, while the appearance of buildings adds human points to the environment and becomes the connection point between the environment and people.
On the other hand, the Rimrock Tea Bar is located in the historical domain of Factory 809, so the language of fresh design makes the project vital. This contrast also represents the consistent thinking of the design team to address similar problems: Culture and history will need to be protected, but more appropriate innovation and activation will also be needed. Designers deserve to strike a balance between confrontation and conflict, so that the old one is older while the newest.
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