A New Archi-type Resolve the Site Conflict

Using the central tower as a transition to divide two sides. To the commercial side, the wet market could blend into the bar street.

While the studio and exhibitions are consist with the museum. For vertical function, the library and gallery those quiet space are on the top level, so avoid bothered by the bottom.

The masterplan shows the overview of the Old Bund and see how the building in between the bar street and the musuem could connet two side and blend into the context. Also, it is clear that the how the waterfront walkway lead the path through the whole Old Bund as a main visitor's access.

2f Plan

The three level plans demonstrate a clear variation on the function. However, people can easily and logically journey in the building with the guide of the spaces and central tower.

1f Plan

While the 1F is the most different where is totally an open space with high different surround the tower. Therefore, visitors can enjoy the nice river view as well as the fish in the tank.

Spaces Wraps Around The Centural Fish Tower

Space1- Wet Market

As the most practical and interactive space on the whole ground floor, the wet market seems quite open to the riverfront walkway, and the fish tank connected the market could let people enjoy the shopping and viewing the live fish.

Space2- Fishery Studio

Another space towards to the river is the fishery studio, and it can be understood as a semi-open space since the unsealing openings in the facade extend into steps leading to the river, where fishermen can anchor their boats for necessary delivery and showing fishery boat.

Space3- Open Terrace

The first floor is connected by four platforms with different heights and enclosed around the central tower, some of the parts are covered by the upper floor, but mostly are outdoor spaces. So the fish tower is completely exposed to the outside at this level.

Space4- Sunken Library

Since the form of the upper layer is generally tends to be a box. To break this sense of squareness, I made the corner part of the library a partially sunken wrap-around space. With the full-height floor-to-ceiling windows, people can have an excellent view here.

Space5- Fishery Gallery

The gallery and exhibition hall are the only public space cannot directly see the centural tower, since the showroom needs to maintain a specific light, and the cure wall scould make the space of the exhibition hall more free and flexible.

Long Section Of Architecture

different spaces surrounded the central tower

Since the project is a hybrid of different function spaces including market, workspace, library, gallery and the most important central fish tank tower. From the figure can clearly see that the tower connects and seprate the diverse spaces and links the upper and lower floor. The fish tank in the middle let people can see it from almost all the corner of the building. Also, the first floor was designed as an outdoor space, therefore visitors won't feel boring during their journey.