SUZHOU PUBLIC COMMUNITY CENTER

Gathering Space / Combination of Traditional and Modern Space / Material Locality

Location: Suzhou

Project Area: 78025.40 ㎡

Team: Yuan Yuan, Yoli, Zhibo Zhang, Xue Yang, Dayong He

In Collaboration with: Landao(Landscape Design)

HWCD(Interior Design),ZhongNan(Curtain Wall)

Lighting Design (China Academy of Art)

Permit Drawing （ SuzhoUrban-Development Institute ）

Photographer:Yuan Yang(Shanghai), Yoli

Rendering Firm: Tian Tuo

Suzhou Public Community Center | 2019.10-2020.07| PTA

Schematic Design-Design Development-Construction Drawings

-Coordination

Project Lead Yuan Yuan

Responsibilities

(Design Preparatory Phase)

- Meeting with clients to understand their need and translating their desires into a design, and providing various options

- Assisting project lead in delivering milestones Preparing presentation drawings throughout numerous design iterations

(Design Development Phase)

- Preparation of building permit drawings and thoroughly documenting the existing space

- Managing digital models (SketchUp), keeping them clean and current throughout iterations. Ensuring consultants have the most up to date model

- Meeting and collaborating with different departments(Interior designer,strucural engineering,landscape designer)

- Researching materials and and contacting various material manufactures

(Design Completion Phase ）

- Staying ontop of team communication through ongoing changes in design and construction

- Collaborating with photographers for on-site shoots and publishing the resulting articles in the social media

Suzhou Public Community Center

The site is located in a new district in Suzhou, where there is a lack of a community center that can gather people. The client does not want the community center to be too flashy or prominent; instead, they want it to serve as a spiritual fortress that guides people back home. Therefore, the location was chosen at the heart of the entire community, and by utilizing the transparency of the U-shaped glass, during the daytime, it remains hidden within the community like an urban living room. However, at night, it emits a warm light that attracts people to return home

| Explision Diagram |

Materials ：

The top of the books bar is adorned with a U-shaped glass structure that reaches a height of 6.9 meters, giving the originally dull box-like structure a more transparent and iconic appearance. The use of gray bricks, a traditional local building material in Suzhou, is combined with various sizes and gradual arrangement, incorporating modern desigh method while preserving the local characteristics.