Passenger Terminal Building Proposal /

IN&EDIT Architecture

23:00 - 15 September, 2011

by Alison Furuto

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IN&EDIT Architecture shared with us their proposal for the Passenger
Terminal Building international competition which included four vehicular
bridges across the Shenzhen River. The project aims to emulate how trees
are organisms that stand by themselves, so their shape has an inherent,
structural rationality. As a result, public flow through the trunk and roots
will guide pedestrians from one riverside to the other. More images and
architects description after the break.

Hong Kong & Shengzen are two leading cities growing with a common
destiny. The two entities are related to one another and both incorporated
under the Peoples Republic of China national, with borders defining
geographic boundaries of political entities and legal jurisdictions. A
symbol: Two major cities growing as one, and together becoming truly
the parts of a part. There are no symbols, without a deep and
philosophical meaning attached to them, nothing could be preserved in
human memory without some outward symbol.(Madame Blavatsky)
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We will consider Hong Kong & Shengzen as two trees with roots
penetrating the same soil. They thicken and form supporting pillars,
indistinguishable in appearance from trunks. From the upper branches,
there springs fresh roots, sometimes intertwined, expressions of the
exuberant vitality. Two trees will be seen as one entity just like a banyan
tree.
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The axial volumes are for offices and the technical areas on two levels are
closed to the public, but with a direct proximity for each function. The
silhouette of the LT PTB is following the pedestrian way from on the river
side to the other. The trunks are designed as floating boxes situated on
the axis of the building, and 120cm thick metal structures are
representing the roots along the external facades. (The structures are all
based on the projected parking structures grid.)

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All vertical circulations (stairs and elevators) are organized around an
axial trunk zone and hidden behind the trunks solid wooden volumes. An
additional horizontal and vertical circulation will help all the offices and
technical areas to be directly connected to each other. The spaces in
between the trunk and the roots are generating two continuous and large
pedestrian corridors, free of columns and structures. Public circulation is
organized along two strips, sliding down along a gentle slope.

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Along with renewable energy generating capabilities, the building has also
been designed to conserve energy:

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1 The patterned glass facades filters sunlight and creates a distinct

patterned shadow into the interior of the building and allows natural light
to filter through to the interiors. A passive solar design to decrease heat
gain and lower energy loads. 2 The position of all the offices and
technical spaces can be naturally ventilated through operable windows. 3
Water conservation will be managed with a grey water recycling system
that will harvest water for irrigation and landscaping. The rainwater
recovery system will be placed along the curved roof. 4 A part of the
electricity will be generated by solar photovoltaic panels and wind
turbines. 5 Electrical energy will also be delivered by the flow of river
water and the flow into turbines placed under each bridge.