SUNAC ONE CENTRAL

SUNAC ONE CENTRAL is a luxury apartment project located on Huxie Road in Chongqing developed by Sunac, one of China’s largest developers.. We are committed to designing their sales office. Based on the regulation, the sales office will be converted into a kindergarten after its use as a sales office. The difficulty of the project is that two different functions have completely different requirements for space.
The difficulty of the project is that two different functions have completely different requirements for space, form, and appearance. The strategy we adopted is to add another layer of removable green skin, the metal mesh, outside the building for sustainability and imagery purposes.
This layer of skin creates a unique facade of the sales office conveyed by the core concept of Chinese architecture from the artistic conception of the expression. Different from Western architecture which is based on a stone masonry construction system, ancient Chinese architecture does not use the geometric form as the basis of architectural performance, on the contrary, the Chinese-style wood structure emphasizes more on the expression of architectural logic following the natural law.
Structural components such as pillars, beams, brackets, rafters, Purlin, and so on are all exposed, and all comply with the natural mechanics of the law so that they will appear without affectation, especially the roof of the arc. The overhangs of the eaves form the gray space and create a vague zone merging nature and building into one to achieve the symbiotic state of man and nature. The concept of the sales office is in the inheritance of such a concept.
SUNAC ONE CENTRAL’s use of metal fabric as the secondary skin forms a sustainable curtain to protect the building from direct sunlight for energy saving. Also, the internal and external spaces are linked visually and spatially in an elegant transition. Translucent materials presented by the looming visual blur convey a rich level of depth in space.
At the same time, the graceful arc of metal fabric formed by natural mechanical logic salutes the Chinese architecture which conforms to the logic of natural structure. The elegant modern steel structure is exposed. The translucency together with the elegant landscape creates a poetic zen space. Although the architectural form and the material are modern, the core idea is the same as Chinese architecture philosophy. The Tao Nature, formless is the ultimate sophistication.