Key：Metrostudio Architecture Trip

项目概况:

SOHO China’s Galaxy SOHO by ZAHA HADID is a large development comprising a compelling mix of office and retail space. With a total gross floor area of 328,204 square meters, the developmentis located on a 50,000 square meters lot in central Beijing. Its architecture is a composition of five continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fusedor linked by stretched bridges. These volumes adapt to each other in all directions, generating a panoramic architecture without corners or abrupt transitions that break the fluidity of its formal composition. The gracefully merging dynamic form of the architectural complex creates a fluid and continuous internal space while establishing a striking and monumental presence along Beijing’s East 2nd Ring Road. One of the design concepts of the project is to create an internal world reflecting the theme of the Chinese courtyard. At the same time, the project is very much a design of the 21stcentury – no longer working with rigid blocks and the spaces between these blocks; but working with soft and malleable volumes which coalesce, fuse, pull apart and connect with multiple stretched bridges in order to create a world of synchronized adaptation and fluid movement within. The other concept of the design is inspired by the ancient Chinese terraced rice field. Derived from nature, parametric design is the synthesis of contemporary digital technologyand the natural landscape. The multiple flowing plateaus act as a rice field inthe mountains, connecting the various volumes, and forming an urban landscape. The architectural approach for this project is to create an ensemble of individual volumes that blend together to create a more monumental whole. The separate volumes have their own atrium and cores, but merge together at various levels,providing shaded outdoor plateaus and internal spaces with dramatic views. The shifting and moving plateaus shift multiple levels into each other’s viewforming a deep sense of envelopment and immersion within an environment of stimulation. The architecture unfolds below, above, and into layers in alldirections with a logic of continuity and multi-level curvi-linearity. It is a360-degree architectural world which has no corners, no disrupted transitions,but in which everything evolves — very much inspired by nature. The project iscomprised of deep vistas that are formulated by hundreds of meter of interestsin all directions. The strategy here is to create a space of easy flow and easy orientation. One discovers an interplay of light and shadow and of closed andopen space while moving within the volumes. The plants around the perimeter of Galaxy SOHO are a juxtaposition of waving ornamental grasses alongside sharply defined arching geometries flowing freely between the parametric curves of thestructure and the natural contours of the landscape.