Timber-roofed restaurant by BEHIVE Architects, a relaxing spot in the middle of the boulevard - Parametric Architecture

Designed by Shangai-based BEHIVE Architects, a timber-roofed edifice is located astatine Chengdu Jiaozi Avenue. The edifice is connected a two-kilometer boulevard with a pedestrian scenery abstraction astir 50 meters wide connected some sides.

The site’s southbound broadside faces the metropolis road, the northbound broadside is simply a high-rise residential operation crossed the driveway, and the eastbound broadside tin place the duplicate towers astatine the extremity of Jiaozi Avenue. The workplace intuitively hopes to plan a abstraction afloat of nature, creating a spot for radical to unbend and devour connected the borderline of a engaged environment.

The timber-roofed edifice covers an country of ​​about 600 sqm. The two-story eating country is connected the southbound side, portion the room and logistics abstraction is concentrated successful the north. The mirrored excavation connected the site’s southbound broadside is an important modulation abstraction earlier entering the building. The h2o aboveground reflects the stretched extortion and sky, allowing radical to unbend successful the airy and shadow.

The measurement of the gathering hopes to found a dialog betwixt the accepted Sichuan dwellings with sloping roofs and the concise and neat modern city. The eastbound façade of the edifice continues the sloping extortion illustration and façade texture of accepted Sichuan woody buildings, and the westbound façade connects the quadrate and neat architectural vocabulary astir Jiaozi Avenue.

A twisted extortion people connects the 2 disparate shapes. The outline of the extortion is arsenic airy arsenic a wing, and the dynamic undulating hyperboloid extends on the meandering ridge line, lightly covering the edifice and scenery below, giving radical a escaped and dynamic abstraction atmosphere.

The operation of the timber-roofed edifice is simply a steel-wood hybrid structure. The diagonally intersecting grid-like glulam beams conform to the hyperboloid shape, extending from the interior to the cornice, forming a dialog betwixt artificially constructed quality and outdoor greenery. To summation stability, alloy columns are bifurcated supra the 2nd floor, and cross-shaped alloy beams are lapped to the halfway points of the 2 grids of the woody roof, forming branch-like structural members.

The biggest situation successful the structural plan of this lawsuit is however to execute a extortion overhang of much than 4 meters connected the southbound side. Based connected the beforehand enactment of alloy columns, 4 inclined columns are added to enactment the woody beams, truthful the extortion tin bent supra the mirrored pool. There is nary request to driblet columns, and astatine the aforesaid time, a agelong and constrictive abstraction on the curtain partition is formed truthful that radical connected the archetypal level tin besides spot the vivid woody operation connected the 2nd floor.

The solid curtain walls connected the northbound and southbound sides echo the absorption of the roof’s woody beams and people signifier a dynamic contour of continuous turning. Under the illumination of indoor lights, pedestrians connected the thoroughfare tin intelligibly spot the full woody extortion done the solid from the outside. The metallic extortion adopts a honeycomb magic colour aluminum plate, which reflects the situation successful sunlight and presents a gradual luster. The aluminum panels wrapper the dynamic extortion successful layers, and the sections betwixt each tegument are made of milky achromatic acrylic and LED lights, which emit brushed lights astatine nighttime to smudge the extortion furniture by layer.

Project Info

Architects: BEHIVE Architects
Area: 600 sqm
Year: 2022
Manufacturers: Shanghai Hingwah Honeycomb Technology Development Co., Ltd., UPM
Lead Architects: Darcy Chang, Rachael Ouyang
Interior Design: HDC
Contractor: Chengdu Beite operation installation engineering Co., Ltd.
Curtain Wall Construction: Zhongzhi Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
Structure Consultant: SADI
MEP Consultant: SADI
Landscape Design: BEHIVE Architects, HDC
Design Team: Darcy Chang, Rachael Ouyang, Yingbo Li, Jingwen Shangguan, Yijun Chen, Sam Sun
Client: Chengdu High-Tech West Zone Development Construction Co., Ltd.
Construction Drawing: SADI
Collaborator: Shanghai Shenfei caller curtain partition engineering Co., Ltd.
Operator: China·Sichuan ChuanHsi PaTzu Restaurant Management Co., Ltd.
Curtain Wall Consultant: SADI
Photographs: xf-photography, Shangru Chen