Master Plan and Science & Ocean Museum in Qingdao
3rd prize based on a complex mixed use program that includes passive strategies, as well as an active solar envelope to guarantee comfort with low energy requirement
CLIENT: RSSA
CONCEPT DESIGN: Reinhard Angelis
ZEROCEM: Sustainable strategies, Design Direction
TYPE: International Contest
SIZE: 42.000 sqm (exhibition)
STATE: 3rd prize
YEAR: 2016
LOCATION: Qingdao, China
Site description
Layouts and use schemes
In such a complex project with more than 40,000 m2, it was essential to create a coherent organisation of functions, grouping thermal zonas and reducing unnecessary corridors.
Furthermore, we decided to concentrate administrative area in the West module, while the rest of the building was bound for public use: meetings within the lower level exhibition within the upper levels.
Like a submarine!
We created a mechanical skin that breathes or closed when necessary so we are able to discover the Ocean!
Sustainable Design Strategies
A skin that breathes
Like a submarine, like a fish…
A skin that can be resistant and waterproof or flexible and breathable, is central sustainable strategy
Metal clading plates are placed over auxiliary structure to allow natural ventilation. A ventilation, controlled by mechanical valves according to temperatures gradient monitoring.
Cladding material is partially replaced by traslucent plates where natural light is wanted.
Also photovoltaics panels are used to provide solar energy reducing energy bills.
Cladding material is partially replaced by traslucent plates where natural light is wanted.
Also photovoltaics panels are used to provide solar energy reducing energy bills.
