The Yinchuan Sunac City Exhibition Center is located near the entrance of Yinchuan’s Gedi Lake Park. The tower, infused with the traditional culture and regional features of Yinchuan’s “Silk Road,” is the city’s icon. Initially, the project served as a sales center, but it subsequently transformed into a civil cultural center available to the public.
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Yinchuan Sunac City Exhibition Center’s Design Concept
The structure is designed in a simple style. To embrace Gedi Lake naturally and attractively, the circular blocks and soft and clean curving features are merged into the field design, suggesting a thread of silk floating on the Lake. The half-moon-shaped roof slopes toward and reaches into the Lake. The perforated thin columns are neatly dispersed under the roof’s two wings. In the evening, the built-in light strips illuminate, giving the roof the appearance of being raised and hanging in the sky. The slab pontoon stretches into the Lake, linking humans and nature. © ArchiTranslator
The fake stone wall on the first level correlates to the perforated panel curtain wall on the second story in terms of the urban facade, expressing the Oriental idea that “existence and non-existence give birth to the other.” The form of the hole on the perforated panel is created and inspired by Malan flowers, Yinchuan’s city flower. The panel splice creates two curving lines that imitate the waves of the Lake and a...