The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is to be constructed as a sustainable and harmonious urban community. With the wetlands in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city as the original environment, an architectural design work named between the trees has stood out from 200 works and has won the highest award in the Sino-Japan-South Korea Design Competition of the 2015 Bushan International Architecture Cultural Festival.
The highest award was presented to Lv Chenyang, a Tianjin University student majoring in Architecture and who commenced his graduate studies in 2014. Lv Chenyang, a local from Tianjin, paid a lot of attention to the natural regional environment, making a number of assessments of the Sino-Singapore Eco-city. In terms of the design, his work between the trees was integrated with the environment. In terms of functionality, his work promoted the closeness between humans and the environment, and the interaction between people.
Lv Chenyang said, he hoped that his design could efficiently utilize the space of the wetlands in the vicinity of where many people lived, in order to improve the quality of the public lifestyle and to enhance the sense of belonging and happiness of the residents.
“The water on the surface of the wetlands forms a state of isolation in which it is not appropriate to build a thick rectangular architecture”, Lv Chenyang said. He stretched and disassembled the rectangular buildings, which was like building blocks, into a group of connected and individual bodies by simulating the isolation state of the water of the wetlands.
After the buildings in the model were stretched and integrated with the natural environment, Lv Chenyang built a steel framework, forming an opened first floor and romantic second floor. Afterwards, instead of obstructing people with a building’s angular shapes and bounding walls he relocated the trees surrounding the wetlands and placed these around the buildings making the buildings lose itself between the trees. ”The buildings tend to be the backdrop in which people can walk around leisurely in a “virtual” space.
Lv Chenyang showcased the wetlands characterized by separated water surfaces with the reflection of the trees.to show the ingenuity, of the design of the facade of buildings, Glass walls weakens the existence of buildings. The dynamic cover of facades, the wooden sunshades, is well distributed which can modulate the amount of sunlight into the building. In addition, a wooden facade and cover is not only in line with the natural environment but it also crosses the trees’ reflection on the glass window, forming a beautiful image.
The supervisor of Lv Chenyang said, from the perspective of the local culture and environment, this work presented a discussion about the relationship between the existence and virtualization of the indoors and outdoors, and humanity and nature. Its general aim is unified with details, so it was thus highly praised by the selection panel of judges from China, Japan and South Korea.
