Sustainable MINI Complex

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Sustainable MINI Complex

Firm

ARCHIHOPE(UK)LTD

Type

Commercial › Exhibition Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$50K - 100K

The project is located in Pidu District, Chengdu, which is an important gateway from the city center to the Qingcheng Mountain scenic area. Sited in a factory park that has been empty for years, it covers an area of about 2,500 square meters with a floor area of about 960 square meters. While reflecting the concept of being environmental-friendly and sustainable, the project aims to create a dynamic and three-dimensional multi-functional space with the concept of openness and sharing so as to allow people inside and outside the building to move and communicate with each other freely.
ARCHIHOPE makes full use of the unified design of architecture, landscape and interior to create a site with a double function — Mini commercial complex, which serves as both an IP showroom for MINI cars and a mini social complex for the public with galleries, makers, coffee, new retail for IP merch , etc. Although all the design work must follow a core concept, we didn't want to design a conventional slab-type apartment building just like those in traditional industrial and living areas around us.
The two-floor building is divided into two cuboid volumes, one of which on the second floor is rotated counterclockwise. The upper building volume is separated from the original structural frame, with the intention of turning it towards the main entrance of the whole site to present an open and friendly gesture and to reshape the richness and expressiveness of the building.
The linearity due to the misaligned rectangle on the plane extending to intersect with the original structural frames makes it a forceful landscape design in unified form. It seems that the building is hidden on the base, which also blurs the boundary between indoor and outdoor space.
The facade made of expanded aluminum sheets obscures the building's glass curtain wall on the premise of natural lighting, and forms the superimposed effect of double facade and a virtual and real change at the same time.
Expanded aluminum sheets and steel structural components are made of environmentally friendly materials such as aluminum and other metals. The materials are reusable, safe and secure, and will not change color or rust, which will save a lot of cost at the same time.
While the overall design strives to be simple, it abandons the stacking of materials, takes sustainability as the design principle, using the original building structural beams and extending expanded aluminum sheets through indoor space of the first floor. It saves a lot of cost to retain the original mottled reinforced concrete columns. The bare reinforced concrete columns, which seem to tell a story of watching vicissitudes of history lonely, have a sense of historic dignified beauty, and its direct reuse is of safety, economy, ecology and aesthetic values.
The large-area glass curtain wall with a 360-degree panoramic view will greatly reduce building energy consumption and the use of electrical lamps by making full use of natural daylighting, which reflects the environmental protection concept of energy conservation and emission reduction.

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