Zhengzhou Vanke Cuiwan Zhongcheng Demonstration Zone,
Zhengzhou, China | 2021

Architects: Arch-Age-Design (AAD)
Design Team: Xiao Qun, Yang Chao, Ran Chaofeng, Jia Dong,
Liu Ran, and Xu Xianwen
General Contractor: Vantai Construction Group Co., Ltd.
Client: Vanke
Photographers: Schranimage

The project is located at the junction of two plots, unfolding towards the city and showing future architecture, future traffic, future neighborhoods and many other life scenes in a future community. It is like a stage, giving its great performance and shouldering beautiful imagination about future community. Continuous corridors connect the interior and the outside, as well as different floors, subtly blurring the architectural boundary. Scenes of future community are translated into an urban melodrama. Variations in the multi-dimensional form arouse uncertain ideas about the building, full of unexpected surprises. Hyperboloid aluminum plates are applied to the external walls that seem to grow in a three-dimensional world. This lives up to expectations that the architecture is as energetic as a seed.

The thinking from the architecture and the block to the city provides a design solution to the project. At the beginning of the design, the architects paid great attention to the conditions outside the site boundary line and took into account landscapes, roads, urban resources, and surroundings, so as to leave room for future possibilities.

From the perspective of the city, the project introduces the concept “Ring of Infinity – Mobius,” and fuses the infinite four-dimensional form into the three-dimensional space in an abstract manner, hence creating a continuous, multi-dimensional, open, free, and art park-like venue where citizens can freely communicate with each other. The most significant function of the demonstration area of a large future community is to convey its vision to the property buyers. The design centers on the future occupants, who will make choices here, stay here for identity, and grow with the city for a bright future. Youth stands for the future, with the state of embracing the future. In the market, there are many assumptions about life scenes in a future community, and many projects have turned future communities into ecological residences. Digging into the deeper needs of the future community was the project’s biggest challenge.

The architects focused on the dwellers themselves, whilst also forming the complete design logic of “future – youth – a sense of instability – architecture’s visualized expression – incorporation of future life scene." All materials used in the project are low-carbon, environment-friendly, and recyclable. The building is dominated by a steel structure. Hyperboloid aluminum plates, which are applied to the external walls, are customized by the factory and then assembled on the site, thus avoiding environmental pollution. With the future community as the design theme, the project emphasizes the core concept of ecological and sustainable development.