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image rendering of proposed green roof spanning multiple buildings

Rendering of proposed green roof.


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Headquarters of HuaiNan Animation Technology Industrial Park

Headquarters of HuaiNan Animation Technology Industrial Park

Headquarters of HuaiNan Animation Technology Industrial Park

Located in HuaiNan city, AnHui province in China, this project is the headquarters for the park that is going to be built.

Building Concept:
The idea of the buildings massing and spaces comes from the melting ice cubes.
Ice cubes tend to create a soft connection between each other as they melt down. This concept starts with normal boxes through which architects get integrated and fluent spaces by dissembling and reconnect those boxes with curved surfaces. This kind of space organization brings the building much more complexity and diversity.

HuaiNan Animation Technology Industrial Park

Overhead view of HuaiNan Animation Technology Industrial park

Ice Cube Pattern: Architects took the cladding gaps as part of the designing elements while they confronted with the cladding division problem, same to the massing, concept for the cladding also came from ice cubes.
Ice cubs present an edge-to-center colour gradient due to the refraction happened as light beam comes through. Edges always seem darker and more solid than it appears in the center. Architects tried to get the same effect by controlling the gaps distance and density, following expansion images are the final result for claddings.

Design by Sunlay Design, China.