Building/Ground: Changing Topography 5

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Hong Luo Club House, Beijing, China, 2006 designed by MAD

The house has two branches, one is a swimming pool floating on the lake, the other is an underwater platform. The architectural form is shaped by people’s circulation. Two major roads converge at the center of the house and reach all the way up along an ascending roof. The ever changing water surface joins the ascending roof, expressing the transition from liquid to solid. The space structure and the functions of the house are integrated naturally. -- ArchDaily

Source: Wang Weijen Architecture archdaily.com

Baisha Wan Beach and Visitor Centre, Taipei, Taiwan,2007 designed by Wang Weijen Architecture

Working with the contours along the landscape terrain, the design response to the strong wind and sand in winter, as well as the intense sunlight in summer. Looking carefully into the surrounding contexts and datum levels, the design reuse the structure of an existing building, extended it through slanted slabs into the new additions, connecting the building to the sloped ground and reduces the level differences created by the retaining wall. -- ArchDaily

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Riverside Clubhouse, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China, 2010 designed by TAO

Responding to the horizontal feature of surrounding landscape and trees in site, the building is made into a linear and folded form. It zigzags and flows, sometimes approaching the ground, sometimes floating in the air. While inside it provides to visitors various views at different level and angle, it also gives an impression that architecture is touching the site in a very “light” form, thus creating a subtlety. The soft soil geo-condition of the site also makes this floating form structurally reasonable since slim columns on pile foundations support the building. -- ArchDaily

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Waterfront Restaurant, 2801 Hu Yi Gong Lu, Jiading Qu, Shanghai Shi, China, 2012 designed by Pro-Form Architects

The essence is to literally lift-up the ‘green’ layer of the park and insert building functions underneath, by which means the public domain remains uninterrupted by private use. -- ArchDaily

Source: Zhenfei Wang, Chenggui Wang archdaily.com

Visitor Center, Rizhao, China designed by HHD_FUN Architects

The Vistor Center consists of two floors. The form of the building above ground was minimized in order to fit into the natrual environment while at the same time the underground part of the building offers various functions for the park. All 19 individual buildings were developed out of one prototype. Each building is site specific; being varies in sizes and different orientations to accommodate different function requirements. Together a group of them generate a new configuration that has the emphasis on the varieties of the indoor and outdoor spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Shengliang Su archdaily.com

Riverside Park Pavilion, Kunshan, China,2013 designed by Vector Architects

The building volume is fragmentized and distributed under or around the trees based on the functions. The sunken garden becomes the new ground for the buildings. It limits the disturbance of the buildings to the low crowns of the existing trees, and decreases the tension between the building and its surrounding context. People are guided into the sunken garden through three pathways between buildings and trees, and various types of open spaces, which constitute distinctive spatial sequences. The pavilion compound forms a closely fitting with diverse environments around. -- ArchDaily