A public-facing exhibition centre for a major district development in Guilin. The project uses the profile of the city’s karst hills as the origin of the building’s form, envelope and construction logic.
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Reference
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The building had to answer to a landscape with a strong civic identity.
Guilin is defined by its karst hills. Their repeated peaks and soft valleys form the visual setting for the site. The brief required a building that could support public consultation while signalling a careful approach to development. The reference was not the hills as image. It was their horizon: repeated, layered and recognisable from distance.
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System
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A curved landscape becomes a buildable ruled surface.
A fully curved envelope would have required complex fabrication. The form is therefore developed as a series of nested ruled surfaces. Each surface reads as curved, but is generated from straight lines. Powder-coated green aluminium sections form the envelope. Every member is straight and every member shares the same cross-section. Variation comes through position, length, spacing and orientation.
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Resolution
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Landscape reference becomes construction discipline.
From distance, the centre sits within the horizon of Guilin’s hills. At close range, the discipline is visible: straight elements, repeated sections and controlled geometry. The project does not place an object against the landscape. It turns the landscape condition into a rational envelope system.
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