2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

WOVEN BAMBOO AS GATES, LUSH GREENERY AS COURTYARD

Entrant Company

Zen Architects

Category

Architectural Design - Public Spaces

Client's Name

CHINA RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION REAL ESTATE GROUP CO..LTD

Country / Region

China

Woven Bamboo as Gates, Lush Greenery as Courtyards

The project is located on the south side of Qianxiu Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, with a quiet surrounding environment. We have extended the demonstration area both inward and downward, creating an exquisite entrance for returning home, integrated activity spaces, and an immersive vacation-like experience. By introducing high-end luxury hotel brands, we have built hotel-style public areas, aiming to balance public spaces with warm residences to form a "hotel-style living community".

The design of the main gate draws inspiration from the time-honored bamboo weaving craft, a national intangible cultural heritage with strong local characteristics. Inspired by techniques such as bottoming, weaving, and locking, it uses the sense of composition through width and narrowness, density and sparseness, as well as points, lines, and planes to embody the principles of formal beauty like balance, contrast, continuity, and repetition. The entrance screen wall uses metal instead of bamboo strips, presenting traditional art through modern methods and creating a collision between local culture and French aesthetics.

In the demonstration area, the first floor of the middle building is elevated, and sunken courtyards are added on both sides of the tower, forming a two-story elevated club system. Through convenient circulation design, it connects a series of public functions such as private banquets, children's activities, negotiation and book bars, fitness, and SPA. We have integrated the ground and underground into a whole, creating vertical and three-dimensional activity spaces, thus providing residents with greener public activity areas.

Credits

FOUNDING PARTNER
Chunwei Liu
DESIGN PARTNER
Shengzhao Su
Design Director
Yi Ding
Designer
Xin zhao
Designer
Xinjian Zhou
Designer
Ming Yue
Designer
Bo Qu
Designer
Zhengwei Liu
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