Linking the future, digits and imagination. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
09/06/2020.
[Hangzhou, Zhejiang] China
metalocus, MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
metalocus, MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
The architectural firm E+LAB studio carried out by Hu yijia has design the Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye, an exhibition center located in the Gongshu district in the city of Hangzhou in China.
Gongshu is one of the ten districts in the city of Hangzhou. Is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang. Within the city is the West Lake, which was named a World Heritage Site in 2011. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminous of the Grand Canal.
Gongshu is one of the ten districts in the city of Hangzhou. Is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang. Within the city is the West Lake, which was named a World Heritage Site in 2011. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminous of the Grand Canal.
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Sketch. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Site plan. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
First floor plan. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Second floor plan. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Third floor plan. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Cross sections. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Longitudinal section. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Elevations. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Elevations. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Structure axonometric. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Conceptual model. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Model. Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
Gongshu Intelligence Valley’s Eye by E+LAB. Photograph by Schran Images and Su shengliang
The exhibition center designed by E+LAB studio has as its premise the geometric relationship of "round sky and square earth". That is why the building is a composition of a rectangular prism-shaped base and a triangular cone motivating the weightlessness of roundness.
In the first rectangular volume on the first floor it focuses on an exhibition hall in which digital technology stands out. To access the other conical volume we find a spiral ramp that creates a realistic view and a virtual space. This ramp leads to the exhibition hall with a 360 ° panoramic view of the valley.
To calculate this complex structure they created, they used BIM technology for the entire design. From the 3D visual model all structural and installation problems could be solved at the beginning.
In the first rectangular volume on the first floor it focuses on an exhibition hall in which digital technology stands out. To access the other conical volume we find a spiral ramp that creates a realistic view and a virtual space. This ramp leads to the exhibition hall with a 360 ° panoramic view of the valley.
To calculate this complex structure they created, they used BIM technology for the entire design. From the 3D visual model all structural and installation problems could be solved at the beginning.
Project description by E+LAB studio
The Eye of Intelligence Valley is the exhibition center in the intelligence valley town in Hangzhou. It is a multi-functional public building for culture display, investment attraction, office meeting, recreation and etc. The design philosophy starts with the geometric relation of ‘round sky and square earth’. The squareness, steadily gathering the boundary elements of the place, is the base of the earth; while the roundness stands for an abstract high-altitude vision. The triangular cone, located in the center, gradually rises from the flat square and flows into a ramp. It motivates the weightlessness of roundness, lifts up the suspension of roundness, and conveys a poetic and geometric experience beyond space and time. Like a Time Machine, it is a generator linking the future, digits and imagination.
Introduction
The entrance on the ground floor is a large-sized empty floor. Restricted by structural height, silver ripple-finished stainless steels are paved full on the top. The metal reflects the surrounding scenery and displays a natural trance to the main entrance space. The first floor is mainly used as the central exhibition hall and company exhibition hall, featuring cyber-space, using 360°screen, holographic projection and digital sand table, highlighting an intrusive experience formed by digital technology and modern society.
Entering the Cloud Valley of Light, you can see the core space of the building, an exquisite ramp rising above the ground, circling and floating inside realistic view and virtual space. The ramp is like a space-time tunnel, leading to the landscape exhibition hall in the clouds. The 24-metre high, 360° French window is like a panoramic documentary movie, offering live to overlook the construction of the entire Intelligence Valley. The overall of the building is wrapped up in white high-intensity composite aluminum plates, without redundant ornament. Its futuristic and international form, like a natural simple sculpture, creates a giant sci-fi landscape coming from the universe in the modern city.
Innovative Structure
The core structure is leaning against a T-shaped cantilever. Counting from the angle of the core structure, the straight-line distance to the cantilever in the farthest end is 28.3m. Two annular trusses are constructed in the upper round-disk height and equipment-space width. A steel truss is made in the space between railings on both sides of the ramp. The ramp is built into the groove-profile sections, a slim steel rod coming from the structure above falls down and connects with the right positions to decrease the span, like an elegant ribbon linking the annular ramps on the 1st and 2nd floors.
Considering the force imbalance caused by the deviation of upper core structure, balance has been made in selecting materials for the main structure. Suspending round disks adopt light but high-intensity steel structure to lose weight as much as possible. The core structure is made of reinforced concrete and corner steel columns, providing reliable bending strength and balancing the weight of heavy bulkiness.
BIM technology is fully adopted in the design. With the visual model, participants in various specialties can discuss on the design. Through the model, most problems related to space design or piping crashes have been solved in the beginning. All rod pieces, joints, screw welding, concrete columns and beams are incorporated into the overall model by 3D entity modeling. All the dimensions in the drawings, including the length of rod pieces, the dimensions of sections, and the intersected angles of parts, are generated from 3D entity model. After that, factory will fabricate based on shop drawings.
More information
Architects
E+LAB. Hu yijia
Project team
Zhou yuechen, Chen yining, Ye tong, Lu xianhui, Xie jie, Yin yong.
Collaborators
Landscape, Interior, Curtain wall, Steel structure, Construction drawing designs.- The Design Institute Of Landscape & Architecture China Academy Of Art Co.,Ltd.
Area
Site area.- 5366.1 sqm. Floor area.- 8933.59 sqm.
Dates
Design.- 2018 March. Completion.- 2019 December.
Location
Gongshu district, Hangzhou, China
Photography
Schran Images and Su shengliang.
Hu Yijia E + LAB
Hu Yijia is the lead architect of E + LAB studio. She focuses on the poetic and aesthetic expression of landscape, color and site, and devotes herself to diversified and cross-media creation and research of contemporary public art as well as architectures.
Hu Yijia is an Aassociate professor fo the China Academy of Art, a PhD in Color Science of China Academy of Art. She obtain the Master's Degree in Urban Design in the Technische Universitaet Berlin and the Master's Degree in Architectural Design and Theory in Tongji University Cultural. Hu Yijia is an ambassador from Hangzhou, UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) TEDx speaker.
Hu Yijia is an Aassociate professor fo the China Academy of Art, a PhD in Color Science of China Academy of Art. She obtain the Master's Degree in Urban Design in the Technische Universitaet Berlin and the Master's Degree in Architectural Design and Theory in Tongji University Cultural. Hu Yijia is an ambassador from Hangzhou, UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) TEDx speaker.
