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Cable Car Desert Station
Type
Dichroic
Illusion Stations
Design
Type: 2
cable car stations
Designer:
Margot
Krasojevic
The
project is for the design of 2 cable car stations along the edge of
the Gobi desert, starting from Ordos city the trail leads into the
deserts sand dunes, a major tourist attraction. The form optimises
the use of dichroic and holographic film in glass cladding, which
helps to adapt to the specific site conditions and their extreme
temperatures and reflectivity, while articulating a coherent overall
formal architectural language. Two contrasting elements ‘Reflecting
sky & Shadow’ generate each station’s design criteria,
influencing a series of reflected and projected spatial experiences
both physical and projected light displays. A lightweight organic
roof structure floats on top of a concrete plinth. The artificial
landscape functions as a relief in which various movements and
circulations are inscribed. The Roof Shell’s fluid shapes and
organic contours mimic the nature of the ever changing sand dunes,
like it's environment the structure is never seen in the same way
twice. It shimmers and abstracts as well as camouflages itself within
it's context, it's presence and characteristic always determined by
the natural sunlight and it's intensity. New production methods like
CNC milling and thermoforming guarantee a very precise and automatic
translation of the computer generated design into the built
structure. The resulting aesthetics might be reminiscent of
streamlined Industrial Design pieces (Car Bodies, Aeroplane Wings,
Yachts etc.). Each station has its context, its topography, its
projected light spaces, its movements. The track’s inclination and
ratios are dominant technical parameters. A high degree of
flexibility enables the shell structures to adjust to these various
parameters while still responding directly to the natural light
levels which have determined its form. The concept of lightness is
explored. Large cantilevers and small touch down areas underline a
floating appearance of the dichroic illusion stations.
The form allows for air
to circulate and cool the interior, the plinth prevents conduction of
heat from the immediate environment. The structure is lifted from the
ground permitting a breeze to move through the pre-cast concrete
primary structure. The structure accommodates different types of
cladding modules, which can be replaced according to season, during
the winter months the Siberian winds form sheets of ice, the
photovoltaic polychrystalline panels keep the stations from freezing
allowing for the winds to carry through it not only sand but prevent
ice from settling within the structure. The structure acts as an
atrium, perforated temporary louvres shelter from the sand and direct
sun whilst the Thermoplus energy high yield glass acts as an all
season insulating glass, providing thermal insulation against both
cold and excessive heat.
Whilst the overall form
allows for the prevailing Siberian winter winds to glide over it it
is important to test materials within a formal constraint in order
to understand the materials affects on light reflection and
refraction particularly when working with the environment and
sustainability. The form has developed using a computer software
which uses the dynamics and physics of a specific environment such as
the Ordos desert in order to understand through simulation and
caustics how light is scattered and can be controlled in turn
predicting how exactly the form can influence and respond to it's
environment. An important mechanical test rather than purely a formal
gesture.
Type
Cable
Car stations
Location
Ordos
Shi, Kubuqi desert, Inner Mongolia Peoples Republic of China
Client
Ordos Shi City Dongsheng district with China Film
House, Beijing
Building status
ongoing
building work
Site type
rural
Illusion Stations
Design
Type: 2
cable car stations
Designer:
Margot
Krasojevic
The
project is for the design of 2 cable car stations along the edge of
the Gobi desert, starting from Ordos city the trail leads into the
deserts sand dunes, a major tourist attraction. The form optimises
the use of dichroic and holographic film in glass cladding, which
helps to adapt to the specific site conditions and their extreme
temperatures and reflectivity, while articulating a coherent overall
formal architectural language. Two contrasting elements ‘Reflecting
sky & Shadow’ generate each station’s design criteria,
influencing a series of reflected and projected spatial experiences
both physical and projected light displays. A lightweight organic
roof structure floats on top of a concrete plinth. The artificial
landscape functions as a relief in which various movements and
circulations are inscribed. The Roof Shell’s fluid shapes and
organic contours mimic the nature of the ever changing sand dunes,
like it's environment the structure is never seen in the same way
twice. It shimmers and abstracts as well as camouflages itself within
it's context, it's presence and characteristic always determined by
the natural sunlight and it's intensity. New production methods like
CNC milling and thermoforming guarantee a very precise and automatic
translation of the computer generated design into the built
structure. The resulting aesthetics might be reminiscent of
streamlined Industrial Design pieces (Car Bodies, Aeroplane Wings,
Yachts etc.). Each station has its context, its topography, its
projected light spaces, its movements. The track’s inclination and
ratios are dominant technical parameters. A high degree of
flexibility enables the shell structures to adjust to these various
parameters while still responding directly to the natural light
levels which have determined its form. The concept of lightness is
explored. Large cantilevers and small touch down areas underline a
floating appearance of the dichroic illusion stations.
The form allows for air
to circulate and cool the interior, the plinth prevents conduction of
heat from the immediate environment. The structure is lifted from the
ground permitting a breeze to move through the pre-cast concrete
primary structure. The structure accommodates different types of
cladding modules, which can be replaced according to season, during
the winter months the Siberian winds form sheets of ice, the
photovoltaic polychrystalline panels keep the stations from freezing
allowing for the winds to carry through it not only sand but prevent
ice from settling within the structure. The structure acts as an
atrium, perforated temporary louvres shelter from the sand and direct
sun whilst the Thermoplus energy high yield glass acts as an all
season insulating glass, providing thermal insulation against both
cold and excessive heat.
Whilst the overall form
allows for the prevailing Siberian winter winds to glide over it it
is important to test materials within a formal constraint in order
to understand the materials affects on light reflection and
refraction particularly when working with the environment and
sustainability. The form has developed using a computer software
which uses the dynamics and physics of a specific environment such as
the Ordos desert in order to understand through simulation and
caustics how light is scattered and can be controlled in turn
predicting how exactly the form can influence and respond to it's
environment. An important mechanical test rather than purely a formal
gesture.
Type
Cable
Car stations
Location
Ordos
Shi, Kubuqi desert, Inner Mongolia Peoples Republic of China
Client
Ordos Shi City Dongsheng district with China Film
House, Beijing
Building status
ongoing
building work
Site type
rural
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