Contemporary Chinese Architecture

Ashfaq . Rabee . Khaled

Glimpses From The Past

•Symmetry

•Use of rhythmic patterns

•Use of inner open spaces(courtyards)

•Effect of culture (eg-screen walls, no.8)

•Tiered pagoda style (eg-jin Mao tower)

Architectural Classes•Religious- Tianning temple

(Changzou) •Commoner- villages• Imperial- palaces•Garden- public areas

Traditional Designs

•Applied mostly in rural areas •Combination of traditional Chinese

designs and modern architecture (National Indoor Stadium-fan)

•Echeloned roof types (National Museum of China)

Interior Design & Furniture•Ancient designs fused with modern

•China Cabinet-mix of colors and styles

•Shenzen pavilion- London exhibition (riding stool & hair pin chair)

• 'Melt series' - simple Chinese design and Italian fashion style

OVERVIEW

• Lower class

• Middle class

• Upper class

• Public and Private Buildings

LOWER CLASS

• Destruction of villages

• Modern Housing projects

• Main characteristics

• Expanding of cities

EXPANDING OF CITIES

MIDDLE CLASS

• Usually live in cities

• Tower blocks

• Main characteristics

• Shift

UPPER CLASS

• Post modern

• Characteristics

• Themes

• Outside the city

THEME

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS

• Representation

• General trend

• Examples:• CCTV Headquarters

Away from modernism

Shanghai World Financial Center, 2008

Shanghai Tower, est. 2014

Main trends• Ideas from West• Late modernism

Shining Solar Skyscraper Shenzhen, under const.

• Opening to new ideas • Technology• Futuristic ideas and designs

Sino-Steel International Plaza, est. 2014 Wangjing SOHO, Beijing, under const.

• Stretching previous ideas • Adapting to the post-modern world

Shenzhen Stock Exchange, 2013

Green buildings

• Buildings that are sustainable - Less pollution - Efficient energy use- Better productivity & health for occupants

Aspects that make them Green • Open atriums • Nearness to nature • Transparent walls and roofing

Park View Green, Beijing, 2013 Raffles City, Hangzhou, under const.

Technology and Green buildings • Use of solar panels • Energy conservation methods• Minimum CO2 emissions• Sensors to control lights/temp.

SIEEB, Beijing

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Contemporary World Architecture, Fall 2013 Dr. Khaled Adham

Urban Forest, China (proposed)

References

• www.dezeen.com• www.arcspace.com• www.inhabitat.com• www.parkviewgreen.com• www.npr.org• www.wikipedia.org