The Wing of Swallow
The Wing of Swallow is located on the north bank of the middle section of Maozhou River in Baoan District, Shenzhen. With the theme of children’s playground, it integrates various functions and landscape venues. It is a three-dimensional amusement park integrating amusement, rest and viewing.
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Its construction is very ingenious: on the one hand, the design draws inspiration from the traditional Chinese intelligence toy “tangram” to form a basic configuration??a swinging column system, while the tangram was called a “Swallow-like Geometries” in the Song Dynasty; on the other hand, the structure is lightly entwined in the woods of the site, with its two corners cocked up like wings that have been raised, so it is named “Wing of Swallow”. Construction combined with Culture–the station adopts an innovative swinging column system, with a basic configuration of 3 columns that support corners with each triangular face, which continuously grows within a 36m×40m range. The structure has good structural construction expressiveness and meets the needs of rapid construction.
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In order to solve the vertical support stability, we control the length of the triangular members within 11 meters, and design a 160mm diameter shuttle column and a 230×250mm tapered column cap to eliminate the torsion and bending moment, so that the colu...