Secondly, I was touched by the building, which was remodeled by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. The longer you stay in it and the longer you use it, the more the mottled columns and rusty iron pipes make you want to learn about its past and present life!
This shipyard was built in 1862 and has weathered the storm for a century and a half. Its predecessor was built by British merchants, called Xiangsheng shipyard, after the founding of New China evolved into the Shanghai Shipyard. At the beginning of the factory to manufacture arms, and then also at that time the opium trade need to repair the ship, so the Huangpu River along the construction of a number of shipyards, the country's first export tons of ships "Shaoxing" is in the Xiangsheng Shipyard launching, and here is also recorded in the history of China's shipbuilding industry.
In 2005, the Shanghai Shipyard ceased operation, the main part of the production was relocated to Chongming Island, and the Lujiazui Riverside Financial City was built on the old site, and a part of the shipyard on the side of the Pujiang River was preserved as a historical site.
According to the people who used to work in the shipyard, the shape of the rectangular box of the building is actually a workshop, specializing in making the shell of the hull, after the production of good transport to the pier to assemble the hull.
Surroundings
After the transformation of Lujiazui Financial City, the land is now occupied by luxury apartments, high-class hotels, banks and office buildings, and art centers like the shipyard, which has become a center of art and cultural exchange based on the economy.
Functional Layout
The Shipyard is located at the northern end of Jimo Road, which penetrates the entire site, with an east-west length of 200 meters, a north-south width of 45 meters, a maximum clear height of 26 meters, and a sky-dome interior.
The project was designed by Kengo Kuma Architects (KKAA), with engineering services provided by Arup. The owner wanted a design that would tell the story of the place's past glories to future generations, and at the same time allow the people who worked here to see that their memories have been preserved.
The result is a stylish art space with a historical and industrial feel. It consists of 1862 Fashion Art Center, a medium-sized 800-seat art theater, and a 16,000-square-meter immersive art business center.
1862 Art Theater was put into use in 18 years, the internal elements are almost kept as they are except for the seats and the stage, the theater auditorium consists of a pool seat plus a layer of floor seats, the floor seats are equipped with VIP seating, and the total **** can accommodate about 800 people.
The pool seats in the auditorium can all be moved and stored, making the space more flexible and suitable for different performances and activities. What's even more amazing is that the backdrop of the stage is a glass acoustic door that can be opened electrically. When you open it, you can close the distance between you and the Huangpu River, and hear the sound of river waves and sirens!
With famous art performances from all over the world, this is a great place to enhance your artistic aesthetic!
The commercial center is filled with car brand experience centers, boutique retail, high-end restaurants, art stores and galleries.
British luxury sports car Aston Martin's first experience store in Asia Pacific, Rolls Royce, Meixun's first high-fashion experience center in Shanghai, which focuses on international high-end handmade shoes customization, a number of high-end food and beverage brands such as Oriental Rong Banquet, the world's preeminent museum of contemporary art MoMA merchandise, the Tiangong Paintings Cultural and Home Furnishing Gallery and high-end furniture Puru, cassina and so on are all gathered in this place.
Unique aesthetic
1. A sense of scale that is different from that of ordinary buildings.
The building is based on the scale of the ship to prevail to build, and we usually contact with the human scale from the building scale is very different, so in order to reflect this large scale, the atrium to the top of the old columns around the space to leave the space empty, above the opening of a lot of tilted rectangular skylights, so that the light can be with the passage of time in the natural flow of space.
2. Unique texture.
If you let to describe the form of a building, most of the time the memory will be vague, but for the texture of the building will have a distinct impression. Because texture is not just a visual stimulus, it also uses all of the human senses to increase the memory of texture, and Shipyard 1862 accomplishes this very well.
Rusted pipes, weathered concrete columns, mottled iron staircases, and red brick facades are all naturally occurring signs of age that were beautifully preserved during the renovation.
To harmonize the new areas with the rough and uneven materials of the original, materials with industrial elements, such as oxidized rusted steel plates, aerated concrete blocks, and stainless steel metal mesh, were primarily used.
For example, the terra cotta bricks hanging on the exterior wall, using 4 different colors of terra cotta bricks, are connected and suspended by stainless steel cable with a diameter of 8mm to form a brick curtain wall, which is in harmony with the original brick wall, which is a respect for the history as well as a new expression of modernity.
There is also a lot of waste utilization, combining the old with the new, such as small metal pipes were made into signage, and the removed roof panels were fixed to the concrete wall in a new way as a decorative wall ......
The link to the project follows, which can be viewed in detail.
Link to the official website of Kengo Kuma's KKAA office:
https://kkaa.co.jp/
Link to Kengo Kuma's video interview about shipyard:
https://kkaa.co.jp/video/shoot-world-shanghai- shipyard/
https://kkaa.co.jp/video/hbc-shanghai-shipyard-kengo-kuma-interview/
Digital certificate:
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