Seal

Building for Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.

The project is located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, with a total construction area of 57,000 square meters. As the only national-level archives in Wuhan, it is not only for the preservation and extraction of precious historical documents, but also serves as an venue for education and training. The design focuses on the inheritance and innovation of regional historical culture, sharing public space, improving user experience, and the low-carbon and sustainability.

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Unique Properties

Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.

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culture sharing space ecologic

Production Technology

City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city. Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.

Design Challenge

Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.

Project Duration

The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Operation Flow

The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.

Research

Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.

Inspiration

Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern. Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates. Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.

Project Overview

Seal Building has been a Bronze winner in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design award category in the year 2021 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

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Bronze Recognition

Central-South Architectural Institute was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2022, a testament to excellence of their work Seal Building.

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