Vanke Sales Pavilion, Chengdu, China
Winner: William Lim, AIA, CL3 Architects Ltd.
Award: Honor Award for Interior Design

The project takes the planning principle of a Chinese courtyard house with an entry court, front garden, a main pavilion, side pavilion with support facilities and a back garden.

Inspired by traditional Chinese paper cutting, a cast fibre cement lattice screen with a Chinese motif as a sun screen wraps the exterior of the pavilion, giving the building a translucent outer skin, letting in soft, diffused daylight into the building interior. The same cement screen is used as a landscape element in the entry court, framing the landscape gardens and giving a stark contrast to the white washed garden walls and green vegetation. Water features are used as part of the landscape element to create reflection ponds for the pavilion, which becomes a very dramatic feature at night.

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