Folding Garden

Community Center for Zhubo Design CO., LTD.

The project is a community center built for Poly Group, and it needs to be used as a sales center in the early stage. Architecture uses a continuous wall across the site, with a winding trend, staggered left and right, as if folded. The linear and zigzag wall not only shapes the garden, but also serves as the supporting structure itself, creating a coherent, column-free interior space.

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Unique Properties

"All in one go" is the highest state of Chinese painting since ancient times. We use a continuous wall to cut across the site. The linear and zigzag wall not only shapes the garden, but also serves as the supporting structure itself, creating a coherent indoor column-free space. at the same time, the corridor space that runs through the north and the south connects three scattered courtyard spaces in one go. Therefore, the building is also called "Folding Garden".

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public service building, community center, Zhubo design, garden building, special-shaped building

Production Technology

The folding garden is covered by fluctuating flowing bricks, resembling a mountain in the forest.When the sun rises higher than the tree, shines on the flowing wall, there will appear a sequence of the light: gorgeous forest, shining green square, gorgeous straight eave, shining sinking courtyard. With the sun light, we sculptured a beautiful full viewed space scenery into a free geometry mountain.

Design Challenge

Due to the limited cost of the project and the heavier historical context, we have been trying to find a value standard between economy and practicality, so as to more accurately convey the atmosphere of the architect‘s ideal cultural place and make the space available for better service.

Project Duration

The project started in 2017 in Beijing and finished in 2018.

Operation Flow

The courtyard is built around a straight central axis, and the internal and external relations of the three-entry courtyard are interchanged along the central axis.The one-stop path to the garden not only increases the user's travel distance , but also presents different visual experiences of the same garden from different angles—just as "there is a landscape in the garden, and there is a garden in the landscape".

Research

Folding garden inherits the historical context of the site. The fundamental values of low-carbon, environmental protection and energy conservation in the building are dealt with in a way of dialogue with nature stance. Due to the scarcity and preciousness of land resources, the building also uses sunken courtyards to shape space, respects a free and open space value system, and uses this to organize community and urban public life.

Inspiration

Folding Garden is located in Beijing. How to inherit the traditional royal construction of the site, and at the same time make a clever translation of the huge garden system in a relatively compact space, is what architect are trying to answer in this "Garden Making Practice" the question is. The project hope to use pure geometric form to construct a place full of natural tension in the "folding garden".

Image Credits

[ Image#1：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden, 2019], [ Image#2：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019], [ Image#3：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019], [ Image#4：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019], [ Image#5：Photographer Huang Zaohui,Folding Garden,2019]

Project Overview

Folding Garden Community Center has been a Silver winner in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design award category in the year 2021 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Silver Recognition

Zhubo Design was recognized with the coveted Silver A' Design Award in 2022, a testament to excellence of their work Folding Garden Community Center.

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Folding Garden: A Unique Community Center Design by Zhubo Design

Zhubo Design unveils the innovative "Folding Garden" in Beijing, a community center that reimagines traditional royal construction in a compact space, blending natural tension and pure geometric forms.

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