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Dalian Urban Planning Museum \ Architects Collective

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 08:18 AM PST

The Dalian Urban Planning Museum is designed to be the gateway to the city center redirecting several main streets to the main boulevard. The building skin consists of a careful arrangement of transparent and opaque triangular surfaces closing and revealing the interior of the museum to the urban surrounding.

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Dalian Urban Planning Museum, render courtesy Architects Collective

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Dalian Urban Planning Museum, render courtesy Architects Collective

This simple formal strategy keeps the building from overheating in summer and allows natural light in winter. The building is designed using low-tech and high-tech methods to minimize energy consumption and create comfortable and stable interior environments. The primary architectural ambition is to create a very public building with continuous inside/outside spaces creating physical relationships to the urban context.

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Dalian Urban Planning Museum, render courtesy Architects Collective

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Dalian Urban Planning Museum, render courtesy Architects Collective

This is emphasized in the interior space by placing lounges, balconies, bridges and platforms the help to orientate the visitor and create visual connections to city. The exterior of the buildings was formed by rotating the upper three levels to three urban grids and then connecting the corners of these boxes in spatial diagonals creating a continuous upwards spiral. The arrangement of closed and opened triangular surfaces creates an interplay of closing and revealing interior spaces and the urban context. Furthermore the arrangement avoids solar gains in summer and allows natural light into the building in winter.

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Dalian Urban Planning Museum, diagram courtesy Architects Collective

+ Project facts

Project type: Construction of a new museum
Project: Dalian Urban Planning Museum
Location: Dalian, China
Procedure: Invited competition
Result: Finalist
Client: City of Dalian
Architect: Architects Collective
Team: Andreas Frauscher, Patrick Herold, Richard Klinger, Kurt Sattler, Matthew Tam
Gross floor area: 25.000 m²
Competition date: 7/2011
Construction costs: EUR 20.000.000

+ All images and drawings courtesy Architects Collective

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Dalian Public Library \ Architects Collective

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:36 AM PST

The new library is designed to become the center and heart for the local community with a strong relationship to the ocean and the bay. The building is placed in a park setting and aims to be a landmark for locals and visitors and a symbol for the creative and environmentally friendly future of New Pulian. It is a place for the public to read, contemplative and come together. The basic architectural form for the new library is the rose petal since the Monthly Rose is the city flower of Dalian. The new Pulian branch is one of several library branches in the Dalian region with each branch symbolizing a petal and forming a rose flower.

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Dalian Public Library, render courtesy Architects Collective

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Dalian Public Library, render courtesy Architects Collective

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Dalian Public Library, render courtesy Architects Collective

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Dalian Public Library, render courtesy Architects Collective

+ Project facts

Project: Dalian Public Library
Project type: Construction of a new public library
Location: Dalian, China
Proecedure: Invited competition
Result: Finalist
Client: City of Dalian
Architect: Architects Collective
Team: Andreas Frauscher, Patrick Herold, Richard Klinger, Martin Schorn, Kurt Sattler, Fei Tang
Gross floor area: 50.000 m²
Competition date: 10/2011
Construction costs: EUR 50.000.000

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Dalian Public Library - Conceptual diagram, drawing courtesy Architects Collective

+ All images and drawings courtesy Architects Collective

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