Gad builds bamboo-fronted exhibition centre for Shaoxing rice wine
Chinese architecture studio Gad has completed a building with a gridded bamboo facade, which serves as an exhibition centre for a traditional type of Chinese wine.
The Shaoxing Rice Wine Town Reception Room is located in Dongpu, a town in China's Zhejiang province where this particular type of yellow rice wine originates.
The building is an "exhibition and experience hall" for Shaoxing rice wine
Gad ? one half of former Dezeen Awards winner Gad Line+ Studio ? designed the building for a part of the town that is still largely undeveloped.
It will initially serve as an "exhibition and experience hall" for Shaoxing rice wine, but will later be converted into a commercial building containing three restaurants. The centre also currently includes a bookstore and a flower shop. It features a gridded bamboo facade
With this adaptability in mind, Gad adopted a modular approach that allows the building's layout to be easily changed.
Although the original intention was to use a wooden structure, Gad eventually opted for steel as it was felt the material would be easier to assemble and would better serve the region's rainy climate.
The building will later be converted into restaurants
This modular structure extends out to the building's facade, where the steel members are framed by lengths of bamboo.
"The bamboo planks are preprocessed into L-shaped members in the factory, which reduces the on-site assembling workload and joint treatment, and improves the con...
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