2023/08/24 Author: HDD
Recently, Shanghai HuaDu Architecture & Urban Design Co., Ltd. (HDD) was honored with the Third Prize in the Shanghai Excellent Engineering Design Award 2023 by the Shanghai Exploration & Design Trade Association (SEDTA), in the category of architectural engineering design (public buildings). Two HDD projects have been granted the title – the Lansheng Fudan Middle School Guohe Road Branch Renovation and Expansion Project (Middle School Reconstruction and Expansion Project, No. 128 in Guohe Yicun Community) and the Feidong Grand Theater Cultural Center.
PROJECT01 | Lansheng Fudan Middle School Guohe Road Branch Renovation and Expansion Project
(Middle School Reconstruction and Expansion Project, No. 128 in Guohe Yicun Community)
aerial view from south of the school ©TANGXUGUO
north elevation ©TANGXUGUO
east and south elevations ©TANGXUGUO
Lansheng Fudan Middle School Guohe Road Branch School is located at No. 128, Guohe Yicun Community, Yangpu District, Shanghai. While maintaining the original spatial structure, the formal strategy of the renovation is to take down the old gymnasium and add new volumes to shape a simpler geometric layout, so as to create a more private teaching environment within the neighbourhood. New programmes including a series of diverse, flexible teaching spaces and open activity spaces are brought into the teaching building to create a more coherent education space for the new pedagogy model.
Red brick slips are generally used on the façades, interspersed with white aluminium panels and stone cladding, creating a style in which history meets modernity. In representation of the school’s inclusiveness and vitality, linear, rhythmic and orderly vertical elements are used in the cladding and window openings in relation to the programmes within the building envelope.
Project Information
Project Name: Lansheng Fudan Middle School Guohe Road Branch Renovation and Expansion Project
Client: Fudan Lansheng Siyuan Middle School
Project Architect: DONG Weiwei
Architectural Design: SHEN Yi, DONG Weiwei, HE Yuwei, LIU Yan
Structural Design: ZHOU Zhen, ZHANG Yongqiang, XU Bingbing
Water Supply and Drainage Design: WANG Yikun, WU Wenwen
HVAC Design: DONG Yunfeng, CHAI Yunliang
Electrical Design: WEI Quan, ZHANG Yi
Interior Design: GE Qing, AI Jingwen, LIU Haitao
Original Floor Area: 4235.12㎡
Floor Area after Renovation: 7688.12㎡
Completion Time: October 2019
Photography: TANG Xuguo / Shanghai Liban Cultural Media Center
PROJECT02 | Feidong Grand Theater Cultural Center
aerial view from the northeast ©ZY Architectural Photography
decorative columns on the envelope ©ZY Architectural Photography
auditorium ©ZY Architectural Photography
The project is located in the public centre and landscape centre of Feidong’s eastern new town, on the south of Yaogang Road and on the west of Shenxiu Road.The design takes inspiration from the ‘Yunmen Dajuan’ dance, bearing the meaning of Chinese auspicious clouds and blessings, was performed for the veneration of the sky, and in honour of all creatures, people and virtue.The elevation design is developed from the idea of the cloud gate, with the square, clean, simple form of a ‘gate’ and the impression of the rhythm of the ‘clouds’. The formal elements are a representation of stage curtains, slowly folding and curling inward to reveal a semi open space under the roof between two building volumes.
Further interpreting the idea of the Yunmen Dajuan dance, the design draws idea from the dance’s choreography and develops a clustered layout with central connections. The multi-storey public hall at the centre of the building is shared by programmes of both the east and south sections, which form the theatre and the cultural centre are respectively. The layout provides independence while ensuring synergy.
Project Information
Project Name: Feidong Grand Theater Cultural Center
Chief Designer: KUANG Xiaoming
Architectural Design: SHEN Yi, ZHANG Haiao, YAO Qiwei, MEI Yuhua, ZHU Tingting, LI Hongxi, LI Jihong
Structural Design: ZHANG Yongqiang, ZHOU Zhen, XU Bingbing
Water Supply and Drainage Design: WANG Yikun, WU Wenwen
HVAC Design: DONG Yunfen, CHAI Yunliang
Electrical Design: CHEN Yu, REN Fusheng, ZHANG Yi
Interior Design: GE Qing, AI Jingwen
Site Area: 39381㎡
Total Floor Area: 47543.35㎡
Completed year: 2021
Photographer: ZHANG Yong (ZY Architectural Photography)
About Shanghai Excellent Engineering Design Award 2023
In order to push forward the development of Shanghai's engineering survey and design industry and promote technical innovations, the Shanghai Exploration & Design Trade Association (SEDTA) is commissioned by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to organized the "Shanghai Excellent Engineering Design Award 2023", as an encouragement to firms and individuals for creating high-quality, technology-intensive, and cost-effective engineering survey and design projects.
