Amazing Skyscrapers .... Fake Hills

 I can see the future on those giant skeletons, it gives good felling toward the architects imagination, help in visualize new ideas for future buildings

Category      Future Projects - Residential
Location       Beihai, China
Architect      MAD Architects, Beijing, China
WAF Entry   2009
Award          World Architecture Festival 2009 - Shortlisted

FAKE HILLS

2008-2011
Beihai, China







Scheduled to be completed in 2011
Type: Residential Apartment
Site Area: 109,203sqm
Building Area: 492,369sqm
Building Height: Slab-106m; Tower-194m







Associate Engineers: Jiang Architects & Engineers (JAE)
Structural Engineers: Jiang Architects & Engineers (JAE)
Mechanical Engineer: Jiang Architects & Engineers (JAE)

 

Throughout China’s ultra-rapid urbanization, attention has been focused on set-piece architecture: opera houses, museums, stadium. However these would-be icons are the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of development in China's new cities takes the form of residential schemes, often standardized and cheap to guarantee a quick return for the developer. Is it possible to build high-density, economically viable housing which is also architecturally innovative?  

Fake Hills not Stocks

The solution is twofold: to cut into the slab, creating a sculpted form which references the shape of the hills that dominate the region’s landscape, and to cut openings through the structure, to further allow space, views and light to penetrate it.

A further reference point is traditional Chinese architecture’s obsession with nature. Rather than siting the building in a perfect, man-made natural garden, our structure becomes the man-made natural shape itself: fake hills for the residents to live on. The design provides both a high density solution and a new landmark for the city.