Tianjin, China
Shanghai PT Architects delivered a new technology park that adopts a positive design strategy to integrate the buildings with the environment.
The team paid attention to strengthening the publicness of the venue, while also incorporating cultural themes and humanistic spirit into the buildings.
Lighter City—Central Park Urban Life Experience Center was awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The project is located within the planned central park of the Tianjin Future Science and Technology City and he buildings were constructed beside a lake.
The design needed to integrate the existing environment and real life into the space and enable visitors to embrace lakes, pastoral scenery and forests. In so doing, the architects hoped to make the buildings a dynamic, lively presence.
The architects expressed the imagery of “water, landscape and stone” via abstract architectural languages, hence created a picturesque, harmonious and natural venue.
The design blurs the boundary between interior and outdoors, and enables people to experience the dialogues between the vertical spaces and emotionally resonate with the architecture and environment.
It seems that the buildings are growing from nature. The simple geometrical building volumes create a “stone cluster” that looks both real and unreal.
To harmonize with the natural surroundings, the architects endeavored to create a pure and simple architectural form by adopting minimalist design languages.
The team designed unique geometrical spaces to highlight the architectural theme, made the most of the natural park environment, and outlined the contours of the architecture via simple sculptural lines.
Project: Lighter City—Central Park Urban Life Experience Center
Architects: Shanghai PTArchitects
Design Team: Zhang Xiang, Zhang Yu, Liu Tingting, Li Hanzhe, Zhang Jingru, Bai Huanruo, Yue Peng, Gao Xue, and Zhu Yingpeng
General Contractor: Xingrun Construction Group Co., Ltd.
Photographers: Wang Ning
