HZS: Winner of International Residential Architecture Awards 2024. The project is on the Changhai Road, Yangpu District. Shiguang Road on the west side is a third-category feature protection road, while on the south side of the Minzhuang Road is the important historical preservation building, the Thirty-six Houses. As the project is located in the protection area of Jiangwan historical and cultural features, it is necessary to take into account the needs of historical memory and modern life.

The overall planning of the project is consistent with the urban texture of the feature protection area, the buildings are arranged perpendicular to the direction of the Shiguang Road, with the front and back rows of buildings enclosing the central garden, while the buildings along the side of Minzhuang Road are arranged in a scattered way, which conforms to the urban texture and echoes the road direction of Minzhuang Road. Within 15 meters of the urban roads on the west, south and east sides, the height of the building is controlled to 18 meters, and the volume is close to the surrounding buildings. At the same time, the top floor is partially receding to form a rich and coordinated urban skyline.

The main pedestrian entrance of the residential area is set on one side of the Shiguang Road, and the main entrance porch uses a variety of new building materials and the overall tone of beige white, forming a community image entrance that combines empty and solid elements. The wall design of the community continues the style of the building facade, from the north motor vehicle entrance to the corner of Minzhuang Road, it creates two memory points on the Shiguang Road.

The urban interface seeks to create a cascade of interesting city skylines along the street. In terms of architectural form, the buildings near the street corners adopt receding treatment to weaken the sense of pressure brought by the buildings on the roads. In terms of building materials, it uses the advantages of integrated metal roofing system to combine photovoltaic and metal roofing to keep the shape and color of the fifth facade coordinated and unified. The color of the building facade adopts modern Shanghai style. Specifically, the main colors of the building are beige white and gray, and some parts are embellished with imitation copper color. The overall tone of the roof and door and window sets is gray, which is consistent with the main tone of the architectural color in the Jiangwan feature protection area.

Architectural facade modeling extracts design elements from historical buildings to inherit history and make innovation, forming a new design language. Building materials such as glass, aluminum, stone, paint and grille are used to form rich architectural details. In terms of design techniques, the pull through technique of horizontal lines is used for segmented processing of facades, this treatment, together with the detailed design of various vertical aluminum panels lines, create a variety of rich layers in the pure facade. As for the architectural details, local rounded corners are used to soften the corners, which forms a more elegant new Shanghai style effect together with the material tone and detail construction.

As for the distribution of housing types, we strive to improve the uniformity of residential units. We try to make more units enjoy the interior landscape, and arrange the landscape, sunshine, orientation and other factors as well as the interval configuration of the units based on the layout of the general plane and the principle of “quality and excellent households”, so that each unit can enjoy the best landscape and orientation, while ensuring good sun light exposure.

Project Details:-
Firm
HZS

Architect
Su Xinjie, Su Jinkun, Cheng Jiangping, Xu Tao

Project Name
Royal Palace

Project Category
Housing Concept

Team
Su Xinjie, Su Jinkun, Cheng Jiangping, Xu Tao, Li Yanqing, Zhang Yong, Wang Xiao, Zhang Zhongjie, Wang Wenci

Project Location
Shanghai

Country
China

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