渡江战役纪念馆
深圳 / 广州
A striking civic monument precedent utilizing dual leaning monolithic volumes separated by a dramatic fissure, mirrored across an expansive reflecting pool.
- What we like about this project
- The extreme outward tilt of the immense facade creates an unsettling yet compelling gravity-defying profile.
Materials
- concrete
- water
- stone
Visual identifiers
- leaning-monoliths
- vertical-cleft
- reflecting-pool
- textured-concrete
Style tags
- monumental
- contemporary
- sculptural
Visual tags
- monumental
- sculptural
- cantilever
- civic
- water-feature
- brutalist-influence
- Geometry
- Two colossal, outward-leaning symmetrical volumes face each other across a deep, narrow fracture-like cleft, set within a vast reflecting pool plane.
- Facade system
- Precast or textured concrete panel cladding system with horizontal joint lines.
- Structural guess
- Heavy steel truss framework or thick concrete shear core supporting the outward-leaning canted masses.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; human figures clustered at the base and along the reflecting pool edge are dwarfed by the towering angled walls.
- Lighting
- Clear day with bright low-angle sunlight casting long shadows across the textured panelized concrete surfaces and brilliant blue sky contrast.
- Atmosphere
- Awe-inspiring, solemn, and theatrical, driven by the heavy angled massing and still water reflections.
- Environmental context
- Open civic plaza surrounded by low parkland trees and water features, emphasizing the solitary sculptural scale of the monument.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching across the open water plaza draws the eye upward toward the dramatic overhead cant and the dark, compressed crevice serving as the entry.
- Composition rhythm
- Bilateral symmetry fractured down the centerline by a dark negative-space void.
- Style reading
- Monumental contemporary civic architecture
- Program
- Memorial or civic exhibition hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, water, stone
- Visual identifiers
- leaning-monoliths, vertical-cleft, reflecting-pool, textured-concrete
- Style tags
- monumental, contemporary, sculptural
- Visual tags
- monumental, sculptural, cantilever, civic, water-feature, brutalist-influence
- Geometry
- Two colossal, outward-leaning symmetrical volumes face each other across a deep, narrow fracture-like cleft, set within a vast reflecting pool plane.
- Facade system
- Precast or textured concrete panel cladding system with horizontal joint lines.
- Structural guess
- Heavy steel truss framework or thick concrete shear core supporting the outward-leaning canted masses.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; human figures clustered at the base and along the reflecting pool edge are dwarfed by the towering angled walls.
- Lighting
- Clear day with bright low-angle sunlight casting long shadows across the textured panelized concrete surfaces and brilliant blue sky contrast.
- Atmosphere
- Awe-inspiring, solemn, and theatrical, driven by the heavy angled massing and still water reflections.
- Environmental context
- Open civic plaza surrounded by low parkland trees and water features, emphasizing the solitary sculptural scale of the monument.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching across the open water plaza draws the eye upward toward the dramatic overhead cant and the dark, compressed crevice serving as the entry.
- Composition rhythm
- Bilateral symmetry fractured down the centerline by a dark negative-space void.
- Style reading
- Monumental contemporary civic architecture
- Program
- Memorial or civic exhibition hall
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture