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D10 Skyline
D10 Skyline
Chongqing, China
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D10 Skyline
Chongqing, China
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
Unknown
The D10 Skyline project is located in the eastern section of Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, rising elegantly and distinctively in Yangjiaping. This residential community is comprehensively developed by New Hope Group and encompasses multiple plots. This project is situated within an independent wedge-shaped plot located at the southeastern corner. The plot solely accommodates a single high-rise residential building, with a total gross floor area of approximately 19,400 square meters, comprising 72 households.
Over the past two decades of rapid development in China's real estate sector, the pursuit of maximum cost-effectiveness and land utilization efficiency has consistently been the primary focus for most developers, leading to a gradual trend of homogenization. When presented with the opportunity to construct just one building on a single plot of land, breaking free from all the relatively "standardized" market approaches, what kind of response should we offer? Can we step away from replicating identical buildings and instead endow them with elegant and fantastical forms, comfortable spaces, enchanting gardens, and modern amenities?
The independent plot and Chongqing's sunshine calculation regulations have granted the project a high degree of design freedom, leading to the proposal of the design concept "Living amidst the Landscape." The building adopts a clover-shaped layout, providing each household with an unobstructed 270-degree panoramic view. The expansive site ensures that each standard unit can extend in a "linear" fashion, with private bedroom areas and communal spaces positioned on opposite sides of a wide transverse hall. This arrangement maximizes the extended views afforded by the long facade and takes advantage of the ample sunlight penetration due to the shallow depth.
Meanwhile, at the initial stage of the project, we proposed the concept of "X Landscape Space," aiming to provide each household with a private mini-garden where they can freely express their creativity. By utilizing the areas on both sides of the cantilevered balconies, we designed this "X Space" to offer both outdoor ventilation and sunlight exposure. When the floor-to-ceiling windows are opened, it seamlessly integrates with the dining and living area, creating an integrated public space infused with a natural ambiance. Structurally, this area has undergone slab lowering treatment, with an added waterproof layer and a higher load calculation reserved to ensure its versatility for various uses such as a landscape flower bed/tree pit/water feature/mini swimming pool. Additionally, the "X Landscape Space" is staggered between odd and even floors, creating a captivating double-height spatial quality and facilitating the planting of some taller.
PS. Based on a questionnaire survey conducted among residents, considering the non-landscape functional demands (such as activity room/double-height living room/study) and the desire to "enclose the balcony" expressed by some customer groups for this space, the client pre-installed uniformly operable curtain wall windows on the exterior of this area during the construction process. This ensures the consistency of the facade while still maintaining the versatile usage mode of the "X Space".
Chongqing is renowned as an "8D city," where the natural topographical variations of its hilly terrain create a skyline of buildings arranged in tiers. Each building is positioned in alignment with its respective contour lines, rotating and stacking to form a distinctive urban texture. The facade design draws inspiration from Chongqing's unique staggered and stacked architectural characteristics, translating them into a distinctive architectural language.
Integrating the staggered X Spaces on odd and even floors, the facade employs a design unit of curtain wall components grouped every two floors. The 3mm silver-white aluminum panels extend horizontally along the balcony's display surface and transition into vertical frames at the gable walls, forming "C-shaped" and "reverse C-shaped" structures respectively. These two sets of units interlock and stack upwards, ultimately shaping a staggered and flowing architectural form. The facade design of the "Skylight Black Pearl" draws its initial inspiration from the city's impression, unfolding through detailed design to create diverse organic textures and patterns. It crafts a cohesive building with streamlined features repeating every three floors, rounded corner glass, and double-height voids, resulting in a highly recognizable exterior that stands out amidst traditional boxy residential towers.
Continuing the design philosophy of "living amidst the landscape," the main body of the building is elevated entirely above the ground level. The supporting amenity club is integrated with the terrain and sunken to the basement level, while vehicles are directed into the underground carpark at the street interface. The architectural strategy of setting back the ground floor allows the landscape to fully envelop the entire building site in the form of an ecological park, shaping a winding path reminiscent of mountain valleys and canyons. A vast expanse of water features stretches from the site boundary straight to the elevated floor, with the reflective surface and misty ambiance aiming to create a Chinese ink-wash aesthetic of a "dreamlike realm." This transforms the daily routine of entering the courtyard, traversing the park path, and circling around the waterside lake into a poetic homecoming experience.
From the unobstructed, sweeping aerial views to each household's exclusive X Landscape Space, and extending to the green elevated floor, ecological park, and water features that permeate every corner of the site—even reaching down to the sunken courtyard underground—the concept of "living amidst the landscape" transcends mere increases in green coverage. Instead, it reshapes a multi-dimensional green living experience that integrates immersion, observation, and being observed. In the post-standardized residential era, Skyline | Black Pearl represents an exploratory dialogue on new living experiences and a pioneering step toward diversifying urban residential aesthetics.
Over the past two decades of rapid development in China's real estate sector, the pursuit of maximum cost-effectiveness and land utilization efficiency has consistently been the primary focus for most developers, leading to a gradual trend of homogenization. When presented with the opportunity to construct just one building on a single plot of land, breaking free from all the relatively "standardized" market approaches, what kind of response should we offer? Can we step away from replicating identical buildings and instead endow them with elegant and fantastical forms, comfortable spaces, enchanting gardens, and modern amenities?
The independent plot and Chongqing's sunshine calculation regulations have granted the project a high degree of design freedom, leading to the proposal of the design concept "Living amidst the Landscape." The building adopts a clover-shaped layout, providing each household with an unobstructed 270-degree panoramic view. The expansive site ensures that each standard unit can extend in a "linear" fashion, with private bedroom areas and communal spaces positioned on opposite sides of a wide transverse hall. This arrangement maximizes the extended views afforded by the long facade and takes advantage of the ample sunlight penetration due to the shallow depth.
Meanwhile, at the initial stage of the project, we proposed the concept of "X Landscape Space," aiming to provide each household with a private mini-garden where they can freely express their creativity. By utilizing the areas on both sides of the cantilevered balconies, we designed this "X Space" to offer both outdoor ventilation and sunlight exposure. When the floor-to-ceiling windows are opened, it seamlessly integrates with the dining and living area, creating an integrated public space infused with a natural ambiance. Structurally, this area has undergone slab lowering treatment, with an added waterproof layer and a higher load calculation reserved to ensure its versatility for various uses such as a landscape flower bed/tree pit/water feature/mini swimming pool. Additionally, the "X Landscape Space" is staggered between odd and even floors, creating a captivating double-height spatial quality and facilitating the planting of some taller.
PS. Based on a questionnaire survey conducted among residents, considering the non-landscape functional demands (such as activity room/double-height living room/study) and the desire to "enclose the balcony" expressed by some customer groups for this space, the client pre-installed uniformly operable curtain wall windows on the exterior of this area during the construction process. This ensures the consistency of the facade while still maintaining the versatile usage mode of the "X Space".
Chongqing is renowned as an "8D city," where the natural topographical variations of its hilly terrain create a skyline of buildings arranged in tiers. Each building is positioned in alignment with its respective contour lines, rotating and stacking to form a distinctive urban texture. The facade design draws inspiration from Chongqing's unique staggered and stacked architectural characteristics, translating them into a distinctive architectural language.
Integrating the staggered X Spaces on odd and even floors, the facade employs a design unit of curtain wall components grouped every two floors. The 3mm silver-white aluminum panels extend horizontally along the balcony's display surface and transition into vertical frames at the gable walls, forming "C-shaped" and "reverse C-shaped" structures respectively. These two sets of units interlock and stack upwards, ultimately shaping a staggered and flowing architectural form. The facade design of the "Skylight Black Pearl" draws its initial inspiration from the city's impression, unfolding through detailed design to create diverse organic textures and patterns. It crafts a cohesive building with streamlined features repeating every three floors, rounded corner glass, and double-height voids, resulting in a highly recognizable exterior that stands out amidst traditional boxy residential towers.
Continuing the design philosophy of "living amidst the landscape," the main body of the building is elevated entirely above the ground level. The supporting amenity club is integrated with the terrain and sunken to the basement level, while vehicles are directed into the underground carpark at the street interface. The architectural strategy of setting back the ground floor allows the landscape to fully envelop the entire building site in the form of an ecological park, shaping a winding path reminiscent of mountain valleys and canyons. A vast expanse of water features stretches from the site boundary straight to the elevated floor, with the reflective surface and misty ambiance aiming to create a Chinese ink-wash aesthetic of a "dreamlike realm." This transforms the daily routine of entering the courtyard, traversing the park path, and circling around the waterside lake into a poetic homecoming experience.
From the unobstructed, sweeping aerial views to each household's exclusive X Landscape Space, and extending to the green elevated floor, ecological park, and water features that permeate every corner of the site—even reaching down to the sunken courtyard underground—the concept of "living amidst the landscape" transcends mere increases in green coverage. Instead, it reshapes a multi-dimensional green living experience that integrates immersion, observation, and being observed. In the post-standardized residential era, Skyline | Black Pearl represents an exploratory dialogue on new living experiences and a pioneering step toward diversifying urban residential aesthetics.
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