Target Client & Possible Program

Cultural and Creative Group

Cultural and creative production groups refers to people who engage in wrok realated to culture or do creative work, which really need inspiration, and an artistic atmosphere to stimulate their minds.

The range of people in cultural and creative industry is very wide, they can be painter, designer musician, writer, or photographers. While what significant to them is much similar and can be understood as to get ideas, process ideas, and display ideas.

Space Needs of Clients

- Neccessary Facilities

- Free/ Social Space

- Mess/ Disordered

- Artistic Atmosphere

- Good View/ Vision

- Privacy Protection

WHY 'ARCH'

There are a considerable number of buildings around the site contain the elements of 'arch'. While, these buildings located seperately and showing a weak feeling of the arch. Thus, the using of arch in the design, can be a kind of echo to surrounding buildings, but also concentrate this feeling to make it stronger. To remind people of these cultural buildings and the old bund history of Ningbo.

The large-span arch structure and the whole glass window make the building facade more transparent, and let the entire space more art sense. Also, the arch structure could make the ground floor more open, so that the ground layer could have more relationship with the context and serve more for the public. Since the ground floor of sorrounding buildings are not high, so I wanna this project has a feeling of huge.

TYPE OF 'ARCH'

Arches in the ground floor space of this project will take on a variety of roles including structural support, space atmosphere creation, and facade decoration. Therefore, different types of arches will provide more diverse feelings and functions to the space. For example, types A and B will form a certain staggered level for the ground floor space to bring a sense of height difference, while the arch of type C will be used more as a facade decoration to continue the language of a part of the arch to the upper space.

'ARCH' FACADE

The River Bund New Arch-Type

The project is located at the end of the old Bund, but not far from the river, the residents of the residence can enjoy the beautiful river view and the scenery of the nearby park. And the trails and parks along the river can be used as recreational public facilities for the residents here. As an art exhibition space open to the public, it connects the houses on the inner side of the river and the public space on the river bank.

The Block Forming Process

define the view lift volume and office difine the public area define the residential area define the courtyard add arch facade refine the form final form

NEW URBAN MEMORY RESDENTIAL concentrate the arch and art feeling in a crossroad

Compared with the original old residences, the new residential complex makes good use of the advantages of the crossroads, and puts a space with multiple public functions at the intersection, which can well radiate the surrounding residents and the old Bund. tourists. At the same time, compared with the original building, the arched ground-floor exhibition space is visually more open and transparent, so the ground-floor space of the building returns to the city on an urban scale, and mobilizes the surrounding artistic atmosphere. The residential part of the entire building is presented in an L shape, in order to introduce the scenery of the park and the river into the residents' homes, so that the residents can enjoy an excellent view on the balcony.