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PROJECT REPORT: TRANSPORT FACILITIES & PUBLIC REALM
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A semicircular, timber-clad form terminates the public staircase at the fourth floor, providing views
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Located on the rooftop are various different seating areas, as well as amenties like a gym, dance floor and tea house
the view of the surrounding streetscape – before continuing up to the roof. Upon exiting the staircase, users are greeted with a “green bamboo landscape,” which is described by the architect as “packed” with amenities and activities. This space is arranged to form a maze, that divides the rooftop into different rooms, each hosting a different activity: including a glass box for performances and events, a variety of seating areas, a gym, a trampoline, swings, a tea house, a dining room, a dance floor, and even an oversized chess set.
According to the designers, the roof also makes the project more sustainable – both ecologically and socially – the bamboo providing cooling to roof spaces, and supporting biodiversity within a dense urban environment, while the activity spaces provide social and leisure benefits in a neighbourhood that has reportedly been disadvantaged in the past.
Materiality & design For the building’s interior, Mattozzi tells me the practice was commissioned to design only the common areas and circulation spaces.
Focusing on the materiality of these elements, Mattozzi explains that while the project is characterised by its use of concrete and glass on its exterior, on the
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interior wood was an important material – highlighting key elements of the building such as the public staircase and other public zones. Alongside this, he details that the combination of colourful ceramic tiling, mirror surfaces and neon lights were specified to turn what would normally be simple linear spaces into “eventful paths.” “The main concept,” he says, “was to bring inside the vernacular housing and street language of Shenzhen, by adopting elements that do not usually belong to office or interior spaces.”
Similarly to the public staircase on the
facade, for instance, “even in the interior” the practice wanted to bring “wondrous and disruptive design elements that might inspire the creativity of users.” Additionally, the practice’s contribution to the interior design also included wayfinding and graphical elements: “It was important to us how the building communicated internally to its users and externally, towards the neighbourhood. We eventually also designed the logo for the building.”
Performance & optimisation According to Mattozzi, the team kept the construction process “relatively simple,” and as such, there were few challenges during these stages.
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