“Linpan Cloud Eye” frames the landscape of rural China
Studio based in Shanghai Archi-union This groundbreaking Linpan Cloud Eye designs as a community center in Qingxia Town, a rural village of China's Sichuan province. The three -story building is about an hour's drive from Chengdu. Surrounded by bamboo Forest and mountain trees, the project serves as a cultural and municipal health center and accepts the natural topography of the location.
The center is hidden into a hill in which a stream from the east occurs. The archi-Union kept the dense bamboohain and arranged the program around a small courtyard that steps up with the slope. Activity rooms occupy the lower two floors, and a terrace on the third floor opens to look at the mountains. This vertical stratification creates a parallel relationship with a nearby cliff and frame removed fields Roof Apertures, inspire the name “Cloud Eye”.
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Archi-Union's digitally determined roof
Visitors enter a bamboo lined way, which the team With Archi-Union designs, the Linpan cloud eye hide to the last round. A flowing roof roof leads you into a number of outer platforms that link indoor and outdoor spaces. Three main courtyard – a bamboo entry, a central green and a roof terrace – are open to community meetings and daily use. Width openings and covered walkways reflect traditional Sichuan typologies and keep a clear cycle when maintaining.
The building can be recognized by its dramatic roof, the sculptural construction of which is worn by three curved steel rays. The exact geometries of these rays were generated by digital modeling and then rationalized for efficient production in straight segments. A skin made of locally manufactured bamboo ends the ceilings and handrails and brings an element of regional craft into contemporary architecture. These natural textures alleviate the concrete and steel structure and reinforce the center dialogue with its surroundings.
Linpan Cloud Eye is located in a bamboo forest in the Chinese province of Sichuan
Robot craft for a rural area
An essential interior feature of the Linpan cloud eye is its “water wall”, a 3D printed element created by Archi-Union to capture the movement of the nearby Creek water in shaped folds. The architects used algorithmic design to translate the button of the water into machine -readable code so that robots can precisely produce the panels. The result brings a digital logic into a project that is otherwise defined by its handmade bamboo work and rural design language.
Increased areas on the ground floor float over the bamboohain, while the upper levels offer calmer rooms and panoramic platforms. Through the combination of advanced tree methods with local forms and local craft reasons, the project creates a contemporary precedent for rural development that its landscape honors and offers a space for the community.
The building follows the natural tendency with three vertically stacked levels
The flowing roof leads visitors through courtyards and terraces
The traditional bamboo weaver soft