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Fake hills design

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Tehreem Saher

This design references the traditional Chinese architect's obsession with nature. Rather than sitting 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.

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Fake hills design
Year: 2008 location: beihai, china typology: residential apartment site area: 109,203sqm building area: 492,369sqm building height: slab-106m; tower-194m status: under construction
This design references the traditional Chinese architect's obsession with nature. Rather than sitting 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.
Fake hills design
The twofold 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, allowing views and light to penetrate the structure.
Fake hills design
The concept combines two typologies that most commonly define residential developments in China high rise towers and long, low rise blocks. The result is a bold new structure, a long slab with an undulating roof & circular openings. This unique shape maximizes the views of the residents, but at the same time becomes a monolithic break between the waterfront and the land behind it.
Fake hills design
The architect mainly used the principal of “EMPHASIS “. He emphasized the whole view and the structure of the body it self by its different shape and its circular openings. This principle gives it’s a massive faced as well as a rhythmic identity too.
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
Fake hills design
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Fake hills design

  • 2. Year: 2008 location: beihai, china typology: residential apartment site area: 109,203sqm building area: 492,369sqm building height: slab-106m; tower-194m status: under construction
  • 3. This design references the traditional Chinese architect's obsession with nature. Rather than sitting 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.
  • 5. The twofold 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, allowing views and light to penetrate the structure.
  • 7. The concept combines two typologies that most commonly define residential developments in China high rise towers and long, low rise blocks. The result is a bold new structure, a long slab with an undulating roof & circular openings. This unique shape maximizes the views of the residents, but at the same time becomes a monolithic break between the waterfront and the land behind it.
  • 9. The architect mainly used the principal of “EMPHASIS “. He emphasized the whole view and the structure of the body it self by its different shape and its circular openings. This principle gives it’s a massive faced as well as a rhythmic identity too.