| 项目简介(英文) | The NETDA Cloud + SINHO Moon City Exhibition Hall project, or the “SINHO Cloud and Moon” project, is in the NETDA City Square of the namesake Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area. By practicing landscape architecture and transforming spatial functionality, SLA creates a public leisure and activity center that achieves aesthetic, recreational, and functional outcomes. The project has two mutually complementary spaces, the floating “Cloud” and the enclosed “Moon”. Given that the project is in the core area of the NETDA and a compact, solid structure would surely obstruct sight lines, SLA, at the outset of its involvement with the project, establishes the following concept: while keeping functionality enhancement in mind, the spaces will be designed to be almost transparent so it can play up the landscaping around it. Taking feasibility into account, SLA explores a way of expression that seeks to transform architecture. The traditional vertical supports are replaced by something new: a multi-span, continuous steel frame structure composed of ultra-thin steel sheets. This fluent architectural space has its volume embodied by white clusters and its weight supported by steel columns at the bottom. Thus, a form is translated into a structure, morphing into a floating, poetic, and dreamy cloud.To minimize the structure’s interference with sight lines, SLA wants ultra-transparency for the “Cloud”. What’s more, it hopes that the space can assume different shapes when viewed from different angles, creating a flowing visual experience. Horizontal structural members, or what SLA calls “cloud blades” (10 mm steel plates), are used for the beams. “Knife blades”, vertical members are used for columns. The largest span between the footings supporting the “Cloud” is 6.7 meters, with the beam span-depth ratio far exceeding the regular size. For structural engineering, the requirements for lightness, transparency, and firmness amount to a challenging task. To ensure an optimum design, after several rounds of calculation, the structural plan is finalized to keep the thickness of the “cloud blades”. The blades at the top are enclosed into loops to form an integral casing with firm ring beam tension, thus preventing outward bulging or toppling. The ring-shaped blades below the top are responsible for solving the problem of insufficient flexural rigidity caused by excessive beam span. At the same time, because the reasonable arrangement of the “knife blades” determines the vertical rigidity of the entire structure, the arrangement supports the clouds in a staggered and discontinuous manner, and the horizontal force is transmitted on each layer through the horizontal plate. The clever combination of clouds and blades forms a mechanical model of the combined effect of stress stiffness of the thin slices and the full-height hollow truss in the vertical direction, which is flexible and rigid, greatly enhancing the vertical bending stiffness. The top of each column is designed as an evenly distributed three-branched tree branching structure, which converts the bending moment between the top of the column and the clouds into the axial force of the branches. The structural engineering prevents excessive localized bending moment at the nodes that could lead to a collapse. Now standing in front of the spectator is a cloud structure of both strength and tenderness.After completing the construction of the main structure of the “Cloud”, SLA sets up a footbridge in it. This allows people to both see the “Cloud” at different angles and take a glimpse of its play of light and shadow from the outside and to walk into it to experience the changing view between the flowing circular lines and the lightweight, delicate wall. When the lights are on at night, or water mist spray is used in summer, the artistic conception of walking through the clouds is further sublimated. According to the overall planning of the park, to improve the completeness of the public landscaping, SLA designed an enclosed public space on the north side of the square, the crescent “Moon”. The “Cloud” is a public outdoor leisure space, while the “Moon” serves as the SINHO City Exhibition Hall, providing a multifunctional cultural experience. SLA hopes that a beautiful, glamorous landscape will be formed with the “Moon” echoing the “Cloud”. Therefore, the design of the “Moon” adopts the same airy principle. The linear beams and columns distributed in a fan shape and arcs of the large expanses of glazing connecting the two ends of the crescent together form the front main structure, and the entrance is set up at one side of the cross-section of the crescent.SLA divides the “Moon” between the long arc and short arc into two functional spaces: the front side is a public area for displaying regional development plans and concepts, and the two ends are public reception areas, including functional areas such as the front desk, the bar, the meeting area, and the VIP guest rooms; the inner side is a digital image gallery open to the public. At the front end, SLA hopes to create a clean and bright public indoor space, so white color is used for the inner beams and columns, the sloped roof, and the grid walls, rendering a harmonious and unified visual system together with the terrazzo floor; The arc-shaped light strip hanging from the roof is parallel to the inner arc of the crescent, supplementing the space with a warm white light source. In the meantime, in order to bring an exquisite touch to the space, minimalist seats and lighting are selected to seamlessly blend in the overall environment. The digital image gallery on the inside uses the most cutting-edge imaging technology to show the development area's vision for the future. Through the clear arrangement and the meticulous characterization of the interior space, SLA has accomplished the exact rendering of the “bright moon” imagery.In the “Moon”, visitors can either have a panoramic view of the park or look up to the sky. When sunlight passes through the “Cloud”, it also shines on the “Moon”, allowing the synchronized movement of the shadows of both the "Cloud" and the “Moon”. When night falls, the two are lit by lights again, one white and pure, the other bright and clear, complementing each other. They attract people to be above the cloud and chase the moon and experience the beauty of this artistic conception. Through this duo of poetic landscape architecture, SLA expresses its thoughts on the city, the region and people’s experience in it. And nothing speaks of the vitality of this region more articulately than the imaginative buildings that inspire imagination themselves.
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