Aerial view of a cluster of timber-framed and glass pavilions set
上海
An aerial precedent for rural institutional campus design, demonstrating how pavilions with expressive timber colonnades can mediate between traditional village scales and sweeping landscape settings.
- What we like about this project
- An open red steel structural trellis bridges between solid pavilion blocks, hinting at incomplete or expandable zones.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- stone
- metal
Visual identifiers
- timber-colonnade
- pavilions
- pitched-roofs
- paved-courtyard
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- timber-frame
Visual tags
- campus
- timber-structure
- contextual
- rural-integration
- pavilion-architecture
- Geometry
- An articulated assembly of rectilinear pavilions varying in height, arranged around paved courtyards and linked by external timber structures, stepping down into a landscaped park edge.
- Facade system
- Full-height glass curtain walls wrapped in rhythmic exterior timber columns and shading structures.
- Structural guess
- Steel and timber hybrid superstructure with exposed glulam columns.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-building institutional or cultural complex at a campus scale, relating both to the nearby village roofs and the grander landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting sharp shadows from the deep perimeter timber colonnades and roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, harmonious integration of modern wood structures with traditional settlement patterns and natural topography.
- Environmental context
- Rural or sub-urban valley setting adjacent to a traditional village with pitched dark-tiled roofs, backed by dense forested hills.
- Spatial experience
- The complex reads as a porous village campus, where distinct pavilion blocks create transitional outdoor rooms and intimate courtyard spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of external V-shaped or vertical timber columns framing each pavilion volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist timber architecture
- Program
- Cultural or civic center / community hub
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, stone, metal
- Visual identifiers
- timber-colonnade, pavilions, pitched-roofs, paved-courtyard
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, timber-frame
- Visual tags
- campus, timber-structure, contextual, rural-integration, pavilion-architecture
- Geometry
- An articulated assembly of rectilinear pavilions varying in height, arranged around paved courtyards and linked by external timber structures, stepping down into a landscaped park edge.
- Facade system
- Full-height glass curtain walls wrapped in rhythmic exterior timber columns and shading structures.
- Structural guess
- Steel and timber hybrid superstructure with exposed glulam columns.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-building institutional or cultural complex at a campus scale, relating both to the nearby village roofs and the grander landscape.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting sharp shadows from the deep perimeter timber colonnades and roof overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, harmonious integration of modern wood structures with traditional settlement patterns and natural topography.
- Environmental context
- Rural or sub-urban valley setting adjacent to a traditional village with pitched dark-tiled roofs, backed by dense forested hills.
- Spatial experience
- The complex reads as a porous village campus, where distinct pavilion blocks create transitional outdoor rooms and intimate courtyard spaces.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of external V-shaped or vertical timber columns framing each pavilion volume.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist timber architecture
- Program
- Cultural or civic center / community hub
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture