Nanjing, which is also called Jinling in ancient, shoulder the heavy history of the ancient capitals of the Six Dynasties, without losing the high-spirited style of the new first-tier cities. Yaju Lehui Gangcheng Demonstration Zone is located on the south side of the Core Area on north of the Yangtze River of Nanjing Hot Plate, where is close to the Third Yangtze River Bridge, with a first-line river view. Through the three-dimensional shaping of the terrain and the orderly planning of the powerful lines, the whole building shows the unique style of softness and rigidity.

△Comparison of renderings and reality images

When walking in the demonstration area, see from a distance, the flying bridges, sculptures and architectural shapes are integrated into a whole. The breeze blows gently, the wings wave up and down, and the outer skin of the building shines like fine gauze in the sun. The whole picture is harmonious and unified with the whole landscape, and there is vitality in tranquility.

A curved bridge between the road and the building forms a span connection between the building and the outside world. Its facade is composed of galvanized steel pipes painted white, which seems to be shielded and transparent, which weakens the stocky feeling brought by the foundation of the bridge. From a distance, it seems that the whole bridge floats between the sites and becomes a white cloud surrounding the building.

When approaching the main building, the sight of passers-by is attracted by the whole facade. A yarn-covered building box, growing from the negative floor to the backlight, stands in the center of the vast site and looks above all directions.

As the design core of the whole project, the flexible use of curved facade and hyperbolic plate in facade design creates elegant streamline shape. At the beginning of design, it is not easy to achieve the final effect due to the influence of various factors. The project team carried out in-depth analysis of double curved surface through rhino grasshopper software, repeatedly calculated and adjusted, designed and optimized the space steel keel, and finally realized the landing effect of architectural modeling. In addition, the pure white perforated aluminum plates are used in a large area of the facade, which is undulating against the streamline of the whole building, showing the feeling of vacating and floating, and also complementing the glass material, showing a light and transparent feeling as a whole.

In addition, the realization of double-layer curved surface space facade is also subject to the condition of large span. Under the poor structural conditions, through several rounds of comparison and test, the project team finally realized the long-span facade support system and made the members very slender, which not only met the building facade effect required by the designer, but also met the structural stress requirements.

In addition, The deeper intention of the design effect of the facade with fine gauze texture is to combine with floodlighting. The lighting design of the project is positioned as expressing the stretching architectural form, transparent architectural senses and smart architectural character. Light and shadow are used to express the texture of materials, lighting art is used to reshape the unique shape of buildings at night, and create visual focus between light and dark, illusion and reality.

The design highly restores the texture of the perforated board of building facade, and borrows the flexibility and transparency of the perforated board. A semi-hidden and semi-transparent visual effect is presented at night. Point light source and linear light source, milky white and warm yellow light are ingeniously matched, and they bloom freely through perforated aluminum plates, drawing a series of human galaxies on the facade of the whole facade, adding a bit of agility and romance to the whole building.

Architectural design has always been a whole, which cannot be separated from the cooperation of facade, landscape, lighting and other specialties. Only when all parties cooperate with each other can we build an excellent project after another like Agile Huigang City Demonstration Zone, adding beautiful scenery to the whole city.

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