Linked Hybrid

Beijing, China
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 location: Beijing, China
client: Modern Investment Group, Beijing a. cinemateche
design years: 2003-2006 b. hotel
construction years: 2005-2008 c. pond/parking below
architect: Steven Holl Architects d. kindergarten/mount of childhood
principal architects: Steven Holl, Li Hu e. mount of adolescence
h modern group
partner-in-charge: Li Hu office building f. mount of middle age
project architect: Hideki Hirahara f g g. mount of old age
project manager: Gong Dong h. mount of infinity
technical advisors: Tim Bade, Chis McVoy e
project designers: Garrik Ambrose, Yenlin Chen,
Rodolfo Dias, Guido Guscianna, Young Jang,
Edward Lalonde, James Macgillivray, Filmic urban space; around, T8
Matthew Uselman over and through multifaceted T9 T7
project team: Christian Beerli, Johnna Cressica
Brazier, Shih-I Chow, Cosimo Caggiula, spatial layers, is one of the
Kefei Cai, Frank Cottier, Christiane Deptolla, central aims of this Hybrid b
T0
a
Matthew Jull, Jongseo Lee, Eric Li, Richard Liu, Building complex with over T6 parking entry
Giorgos Mitroulas, Olaf Schmidt, Judith Tse, 700 apartments sited adjacent d
Clark Manning, Kitty Wang, Li Wang, to the old city wall of Beijing. c
T5
Ariane Wiegner, Noah Yaffe, Liang Zhao
The aspiration of the developer Focused on the experience of cinema
local architects: Beijing Capital engineering passage of the body through
Architecture Design Co. LTD Modern Group is for an ultra- nursery entry
T1

structural engineers: Guy Nordenson modern expression of 21st spaces, the towers are organized entry
T3

and Associates Century ecological urban living, to take movement, timing and T2

structural engineers: Structural Engineering in this 220,000 sq. m. project.
Associates Current development in Beijing
consulting structural engineers: China Academy
of Building Research
is almost entirely “object
buildings” and free standing
mechanical engineers: Transsolar Energietechnik
GmbH, Cosentini Associates towers. This “city within a city”
lighting consultant: L‘Observatoire International envisions urban space as the
landscape architects: Steven Holl Architects central aim – as well as all the
+ EDAW Beijing activities and programs that
curtain wall consultants: Front Inc.
+ XAC Architectural Decoration Co. LTD can support the daily life of
over 2500 inhabitants: café’s,
program: 750 apartments, commercial zones,
cinemayeque, kindergarten, undergrund parking delis, laundry, dry cleaners,
florists etc, line the main public
photo by Iwan Baan passages. The eight towers are
linked at the twentieth floor by
a ring of cafes and services.
The polychrome architecture
of Ancient China here inspires
Spazio urbano filmico; il collegamento a tutto
a new phenomenal dimension
campo di livelli spaziali sfaccettati costituisce uno especially inscribing the
degli obiettivi centrali del complesso Hybrid Building “spatiality of the night”.
dotato di oltre 700 appartamenti e situato accanto The undersides of the
alle mura della città vecchia di Pechino. cantilevered portions are
sequence into consideration.
The point of view changes with
a slight ramp up, a slow right
turn. The elevator displaces like
a “jump cut” to another series
of passages on a higher level,
which pan across exhilarating
peripheral views.
The encircled towers express a
collective aspiration; rather than
towers as isolated objects or
private islands in an increasingly
privatized city.....the hope site plan
of a new type of collective
21stcentury space in the air is
inscribed. Programmatically this
loop aspires to be semi-lattice-
like rather than simplistically
optional cooling tower
linear. We have an initial series
of programs. However we hope
the sky-loop and the base-loop commercial commercial
lobby 8
will constantly generate random commercial

colored membranes in night light relationships, just as a modern exhaust air

Con questo progetto, che copre un totale city does. commercial lobby 9
lobby 7
parking
glow. Misting fountains from the commercial
commercial
di 220.000 mq, il committente Modern Group water retention basin activate Mass housing in china has commercial

intendeva concretizzare il concetto di abitazione the night light in colorful clouds, historically been standardized
urbana ed ecologica del XXI secolo. L’attuale while the floating Cineplex and repetitive. Our hope is commercial commercial
commercial

sviluppo urbano di Pechino si basa quasi
interamente sulla progettazione di “edifici oggetto”
caratterizzati per la maggior parte da torri a sé
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centerpiece has partial images to break the pattern; this new
of its ongoing films projected vertical urban sector aspires to
individuation in urban living.
on its undersides and reflected parking exit

in the water. Hundreds of different apartment café

teahouse
parking exit
stanti. Il “Linked Hybrid” è invece una “città nella layouts in a huge variety of types
città” che focalizza l’attenzione sullo spazio urbano will be available among the 728 lobby 6 lobby
hotel

e sulle attività che scandiscono la vita quotidiana di living spaces constructed here. lobby

And it should be emphasized,

oltre 2500 abitanti: bar, gastronomie, lavanderie, that even if this would lead to
commercial

lavasecco, fioristi costeggiano i principali passaggi a commercial advantage, the

pubblici. Le otto torri sono collegate al ventesimo reason for this individuation is
piano da un anello che ospita bar e servizi. philosophical as well.
L’architettura policroma dell’antica Cina ispira Digitally driven prefabricated lobby 5 commercial teahouse teahouse
construction of the exterior parking exit lobby parking exit
una nuova dimensione fenomenica che vuole structure of the eight towers commercial

sottolineare la “spazialità della notte”. allows for “beamless” ceilings.

Le parti basamentali degli elementi a sbalzo sono Every apartment has two
dotate di membrane colorate che brillano al calare exposures with no interior parking entry commercial commercial

del sole. Le fontane di vapore, alimentate dal hallways. Principles of Feng- commercial
Shui are followed throughout
bacino idrico, la notte creano nuvole variopinte the complex, which is aimed commercial
mentre spezzoni di film vengono proiettati sulla at sustainability “LEED Gold” commercial commercial
lobby 1-T commercial
parte inferiore dell’edificio riflettendosi nell’acqua. rating. lobby 3

commercial lobby 2 commercial

entry

ground floor plan

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T6 T5 T3 T2 T1
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+66.00
Le torri del Linked Hybrid vogliono raccontare
+62.50
“l’esperienza del passaggio di un corpo attraverso
+59.45
gli spazi”, e lo fanno tenendo conto di valori quali
+56.40
il movimento, il coordinamento, la sequenza.
+53.35
Esse sono collegate in modo orbicolare per
+50.30
esprimere l’idea di circolarità e unione; più che 10 m
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+47.25
oggetti isolati in una città sempre più privatizzata +44.20
le torri propongono un nuovo tipo di spazio +41.15
collettivo per il XXI secolo. +38.10
In Cina, l’edilizia di massa risulta ormai +35.05
standardizzata e ripetitiva. È necessario dunque +32.00
infrangere questo modello rendendo più individuale +28.95
il vivere urbano. Tra i 728 spazi abitativi disponibili +25.90
i clienti potranno scegliere appartamenti con +22.85

planimetrie e tipologie diversificate, una scelta non +19.80

solo economica ma anche filosofica. La costruzione +16.75

prefabbricata della struttura esterna delle otto torri +13.70

consente la realizzazione soffitti privi di travi. +10.65

Ogni appartamento dispone di due esposizioni +7.60

senza corridoi interni. I principi di Feng-Shui sono +4.55

seguiti per tutto il complesso che intende ottenere

la classificazione di sostenibilità ambientale
“LEED Gold”.
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elevation
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business center
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gym 14 floor
12 floor

15 floor
exhibitions
sky lounge
health spa

sports club

book shop
digital café
coffee house/bar

15 floor
16 floor

cultural
center

17 floor
lounge
pool
16 floor

spa health
18 floor

upper floor plan functions diagram 0 5 10

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duplex roof
garden
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duplex +59.45
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T7 art +44.20
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main
+4.55 lobby commercial commercial 0.00

boiler
parking trash/recycling room -5.20
exit to
service service parking plaza service -9.45

0 5 10
elevation section
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T8
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apartment duplex
duplex +25.15

apartment
T7
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art gallery
duplex
duplex +53.35
bar
apartment
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duplex
duplex
apartment
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duplex
main duplex
lobby exit
emergency exit lobby 9 commercial commercial -0.15
commercial

lobby 9 parking

service bicycle parking storage parking

section 0 5 10 section on the bridge 0 5 10