ShuǐTǎ Tower V.02, Anjuzhen, Tongliang, Chongqing, China

中国重庆市,铜梁县安居镇--水塔 V.02 

 

客户:安居国际旅游度假酒店,中国铁建股份有限公司      策划及组织: 北京新太立文化传播有限公司     状态: 建筑设计
规格:8.50米(直径)x 25米

 

client: Anju International Tourism Resort, China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd    curatorship + coordination: Beijing NTL Culture Communication Co., Ltd     area: 8,50m (diameter) x 25m    status: construction design     年份:year: 2017-2018    设计方:design: Ben Busche / Brut Deluxe    设计成员:team: Jesús Francisco Rodríguez Pedrosa, Philip Baumann, Elisa Luda    服务:services: r7consulting    

       安居镇是中国少有的历史文化古镇之一。在过去的几十年里,中国大多数的历史重镇都受到了现代文化发展的冲击而失去了原有的特色,而安居镇却完好无损的保存着自己的古文化魅力。它位于重庆市西北70公里处,整个小镇就如同一个博物馆。当地居民不多,但是到处是参观寺庙,剧院和大户庭院的游客。古街道上一日游的游客更是随处可见,但到了晚上安居镇又恢复了自己的宁静。

       2017年春季,我们受邀参观了安居镇并就该历史文化中心周边的一系列基础建设提供改造创意。这些基础设施大多建于70年代,被当地政府认为是无用的且有损古镇形象。本项目的客户是国有企业中国铁建股份有限公司的子公司,他们希望将项目的重点放在刺激旅游,吸引游客并延长他们的旅行时间和留宿该镇。水塔是我们受委托重新考虑和重新设计的三个项目之一。

       该水塔的结构是一个直径为8.50米的混泥土圆柱体,过去为安居镇起到蓄水的作用。该建筑坐落在一个岩石河岸上,除了顶层以外,它的基础结构上没有任何出口。一座古旧的木桥将水塔的顶层连接到一个河岸高处的露台上。

 

       对于水塔的改建,客户方摒弃了多种设计方案(比如观景台的方案)之后,确定了其目的是将水塔改建成一个带有屋顶观景台的两层贵宾楼,并委托我们提供建筑设计。此楼专用于接待特邀作家和诗人,它将成为未来由附近现有建筑改造成的五星级酒店的一个附属部分,并改建原有的木桥把它们连接起来。

       我们的设计将去掉旧结构中高于桥面的部分,并保留混凝土的基础部分。在这之上,建造一个三层高的外围钢架结构。 此建筑由V型的细钢管架构而成, 用于支撑内部的玻璃墙。 所有的外凸的玻璃表面都是固定的而且没有开口, 但是在一些特定区域, 圆型的玻璃墙被内凹的非透明木墙取代,从而创造出一些小阳台。所有的门, 包括进入此建筑或阳台的门都设在内凹的木墙上,这些门同时起到给室内通风透气的作用。在主体结构之外,设有一个由垂直的不锈钢丝组成的网状结构用于支撑攀缘植物。
       在此建筑的西南方向,在钢丝网和V型钢架结构之间安置一组自动气垫。充气之后,气垫可以阻挡附近建筑的视线从而起到保护隐私的作用。同时这些气垫还可以遮阳并调节室内温度。

     在水塔的混凝土基础部分开设一个休闲餐厅。除了中间的楼梯之外,新建的三层结构都是透明的。屋顶的观景台上建有一个小型的按摩泳池。

Anjuzhen is one of China´s few ancient cities, a small village remaining almost intact and unaltered by the pressure of progress that razed almost all historic quarters over the last decades throughout China. Located 70km northwest of Chongqing, it is today comparable to a museum town, lacking habitants but animated by tourists that visit the temples, theatres and manors and seize the old streets for a day-trip and vanish at night.

In spring 2017 we were invited to visit the site and to develop ideas for a series of infrastructure facilities in the immediate outskirts of the historic centre, mostly built in the 70ies and esteemed as useless and disruptive to the image the local authorities seek for. The client, a subsidiary of the state-owned CRCC (China Railway Construction Company), is also desirous of focussing the projects on creating incentives for the tourists to prolong their visit and stay overnight. ShuǐTǎ Tower is one of the three projects we were commissioned to rethink and redesign.

The tower structure is a concrete cylinder with a diameter of 8,50m serving in the past as a water deposit to Anjuzhen. The structure sits on the rocky riverbank, the basement lacks any opening. An old wooden bridge connects the tower´s top floor to a terrace on the high bank.

After discarding several options for conversions (like the observation tower), the client defines it´s use as a scholarship guesthouse for invited poets and commissions us the construction design for a two-storey suite with a roof top terrace. The new guesthouse will function as an annex to a nearby existing building that will be turned into a five star hotel in the future. Both buildings will be connected via the existing bridge. 
Our design cuts the old structure above the access bridge level and maintains the concrete base. Rising at that point, an external 3-storey-high steel structure composed of piled layers of slim tubes disposed in V-shape hold an inner glass volume. All convex glass surfaces are fixed and hold no openings. The circular glass surface is interrupted at determined areas by concave shaped opaque timber walls, creating small terraces. The concave timber walls hold all doors that give access to the building or the terraces and ventilate the inner space. An external net of vertical stainless steel cables is displayed to support climbing plants. 
In between these layers, a pattern of automated pneumatic cushions is placed to the southwest. These are inflated to create privacy and protect from the views from the nearby buildings and to control the temperature shading the façade.