Proposal 2 For The Competition “The Revival Of The Silo” Guangzhou China
Office25 Architects in collaboration with ArchiTeam, participated with the project “Silo Center”
Competition brief
The competition was organized by “HOMEMADE DESSERT-ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN COMPETITIONS”. The aim was to create a space for young designers and artists in the factory complex of Redtory, in Guangzhou, China. Considering the proposal’s range of possible program (creative spaces, design studios, workshops, galleries, design schools, machinery spaces for the industrial arts) the development should be capable of providing work space for more than one hundred design students and professionals.
Description
Office25 Architects in collaboration with ArchiTeam, participated with the project “Silo Center”
Competition brief
The competition was organized by “HOMEMADE DESSERT-ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN COMPETITIONS”. The aim was to create a space for young designers and artists in the factory complex of Redtory, in Guangzhou, China. Considering the proposal’s range of possible program (creative spaces, design studios, workshops, galleries, design schools, machinery spaces for the industrial arts) the development should be capable of providing work space for more than one hundred design students and professionals.
Description
The concept of the proposal is based on the first sight sense of struggle between the nature and the built environment by looking the flooded site full of greenery. In an effort to enhance this battle we leave the landscape to penetrate the silo connecting it in the same time with the other two brick buildings. The break of the silo leaves the water to come inside and a distorted second-skin building is formed inside the silo.
The main intention is the respect of the existing natural and built environment.Towards this direction, the shells of the silo and brick buildings are kept. A central axis is created so as to connect all the facilities starting from the existing entrance of the site, penetrating the silo and ending at a point of interest, a glass building, which hosts workshops, lectures and seminars. A secondary axis connects a second site entrance with the main axis. On these two platforms, movable floating pavillions are anchored, flexible enough to creat smaller or bigger exhibition or sitting areas. For the whole intervention proposal, light and recyclable materials – glass, wood and metal – are used, seperating the old from the new.
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on drawing board |
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HOMEMADE DESSERT-ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN COMPETITIONS |
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1750m² |
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Guangzhou, China |
This project refers to the design of a ground floor private residence with surrounding fencing, in the farm area of Epanomi (municipality of Thermaikos) which has a total area of 11557.50 sq.m. The ground floor house has been designed and developed based on the topographical details of the area . The building has visual engravings on the southwest, its entrance is located on the northeast and evolves around a outdoor living room. More specifically, the exterior seating area consists of a semi-outdoor area with a pergola, which includes the entrance to the house.
The main living spaces are located in the northwest part of the property. There is the kitchen with the dining room and the living room, as well as two bedrooms and a laundry space. To the southeast there are three guest bedrooms, one with a private bathroom and two with a shared one.
The external staircase located on the main patio leads to an outdoor seating area, which is designed on the roof, with a pergola. On the exterior space of the building one more pergola creates a shading system that serves the outdoor parking space. The outdoor space also hosts a hot tub, in connection to the master bedroom.
The central and connecting element of the composition is the atrium, from which there is access to the all the interior spaces. The design offers privacy where it is needed with large openings to the surrounding view.
