High end residential facade: superfluid curve design technique

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If straight lines are a rational and standardized 'industrial beauty', then curves are a 'sophisticated beauty' with lightness and rhythm. Curves have even become a standard feature of high-end residential facades, an important part of refined design in luxury homes, and a crucial medium for showcasing the artistic and innovative nature of residential properties.

The fluid curve facade technique mainly uses curved lines and rounded corners to design building facades, reducing the strong contrast between faces and softening the "rigidity" of the building, making the overall appearance of the building softer, more natural, and smoother, creating a light and smooth, boundless spatial feeling.

01.Shanghai Jing'an Center Apartment

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Shanghai Financial Street Jing'an Center © Seth Powwers

The Financial Street (Jing'an) Center consists of two office buildings, one high-end residential building, and one boutique SOHO apartment building. The project is located in the Caojiadu commercial district of Jing'an District, Shanghai. It is built in accordance with LEED Gold certification and national green two star dual certification standards, with a total construction area of 76600 square meters. It is a scarce urban complex consisting of office, commercial, residential and other formats.

Residential and office buildings are connected by retail areas on the ground floor. Two buildings are located on opposite sides to maximize the use of sunlight, reduce shadows, and minimize the impact on surrounding buildings.

Shanghai Financial Street Jing'an Center © Seth Powwers

Considering the impact of surrounding lighting, the elevated sliding door solution for Financial Street Apartments provides an elegant and comfortable atmosphere for every use. In the luxurious and understated exterior details, the design team has made ingenious considerations for the integration of the project and the environment with superb skills:

The design of the project facade has evolved from two main elements. One is the horizontal "ribbon" surrounding the balcony and open areas on the exterior facade of the building. The second is the vertical gradient of the "ribbon" created by the metal sheet on the street facing facade. The design changes have enhanced the vertical extension of the building.

Ribbon like building facade © Seth Powers

Details are the key to creating a cohesive whole. The solution of opening windows inside and pouring windows inside, combined with ambient lighting, solves the problems of external appearance and internal experience in the use of tomb walls. Ensure that the project is more convenient to use in this detail and perfectly fits with the surrounding environment.

Natural light shines through the glass courtyard into the lobby, providing ideal natural lighting for the interior and introducing urban beauty into the space. Standing alone amidst the hustle and bustle of the city, the project achieves a natural and perfect integration of design and functionality, creating a more comfortable and convenient experience for users.

02.Xiamen Zhongjun Tianying

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Xiamen Zhongjun Tianying Architecture Photography: Zhen Vision Photography

In the construction of Xiamen Zhongjun Tianying, the architectural design of Shangcheng takes "coastal culture+egret culture" as the design concept, deeply integrating the three attributes of modernity, fashion, and international style of luxury homes with the cultural characteristics of Xiamen's coastal city.

The architect abandons traditional arrangement techniques and extracts the expansion and contraction layers and stretching curves of the white egret's wings. Using a gradual gradient towards the overhanging board and tail, the architect depicts the layered rhythm of the lines, creating a beautiful form of white egret spreading its wings. In different ways of expression, it echoes with the top shape, bringing a more lightweight architectural visual.

Xiamen Zhongjun Tianying Building Entrance © 3A Composites

The facade wall is mainly composed of horizontal lines, with curved elements embellished. In key visual treatments such as points, lines, surfaces, and volumes, the aesthetic design of curved corner windows and large floor to ceiling glass is deeply enhanced.

The huge floor to ceiling glass reflects the shimmering waves of the sea: the flowing lines of the facade and the dynamic curves of the curved corner windows connect the soaring posture of white egrets in the sky, and every condensation seems to give the building vitality.

The facade wall embodies the fashion sense of coastal cities through horizontal lines, combined with spiral shaped building line feet, seamless zero pipeline technology, and metal aluminum plates that run from bottom to top. With a simple facade form and advanced facade materials, it brings a high-end visual impact that resembles standing on a blue sea surface.

Xiamen Zhongjun Tianying Facade Detail Architecture Photography: Zhen Vision Photography

Compared to the design concept of top tier luxury homes, the facade of champagne gold aluminum panels has undergone repeated comparisons and finally selected expensive imported brand composite aluminum materials, which is enough to temper imagination at every golden bend.

The building has transformed the traditional impression of hard and angular luxury homes, deeply enhancing the aesthetic design of curved corner windows and large floor to ceiling glass. Combined with the spiral shaped building lines, the overall facade is like a sparkling blue sea.

Xiamen Zhongjun Tianying Entrance Architectural Photography: Zhen Vision Photography

At the same time, drawing on the ever-changing curves of the ocean, it forms a different view of the whole day with external light sources, and the blue sky and white clouds reflected in the mirror echo the coastal life from afar.

The entrance design of the residential area also continues the hotel style public area experience, with a shape that echoes the curved elements of the exterior facade. Two layers of champagne gold aluminum composite panels are used to continue the design, matched with grille carvings, creating a high-quality home experience.

03.Wanzhong Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley

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Wanzhong Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley © 3A Composites

Wanzhong Liuguang Cloud Valley is located within the administrative jurisdiction of Qujiang, Xi'an City. It is situated in Qujiang New District, a famous royal garden site of the Tang Dynasty and a national cultural industry demonstration zone. It is also located in the core hinterland of Qujiang Phase II, with excellent ecological and living environment.

Wanzhong Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley constructs avant-garde buildings with curved lines, facing the dark bends of the times with curves, dreaming with the rhythm of the ocean's curves, writing poetry with the rhythm of cloud curves, and expressing the infinite possibilities of architecture with light and dynamic curved vocabulary.

Wanzhong Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley © 3A Composites Lujing Architectural

The architectural appearance draws inspiration from the flowing beauty of porcelain curves, showcasing the posture of flowing light, clouds, and water, with a noble and romantic temperament. Using "light" as a creative technique, through the fluidity of light, fluid architectural aesthetics are created, delicate, curved, artistic, and carved, making architecture a pure white flowing cloud between heaven and earth, blurring the boundaries of architecture.

Looking at residential projects in recent years, it is not difficult to find that many architects have a special preference for curved and streamlined facades. Architects usually use curved corners to achieve a natural transition between adjacent walls, reducing the strong contrast between faces in light and shadow effects, changing the rigid image of right angle corners, and making the overall building softer.

Wanzhong Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley © Lujing Architectural

The beauty and boundaries of Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley are designed with curved lines, constantly shaping a graceful architectural carrier. The curved facade design also brings a unique and charming appearance to the building, increasing its artistic and visual appeal.

Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley, with its simple colors and light and dynamic lines, uses the fluidity of light and "light" as a creative technique to blend the continuous flow of Han and Tang cultures, creating a fluid architectural aesthetic that is delicate, curved, artistic, and carved. It hides the architecture in nature, weakens the sense of heaviness, and blurs the boundaries of the architecture.

Wanzhong Qujiang Flowing Light Cloud Valley © Lujing Architectural

The exquisite selection of materials on the facade showcases the artistic appearance of Flowing Cloud Valley. The facade uses simple colors and aluminum composite materials with iridescent pearl white as creative expression. The precious gold softens the noble pearl luster, creating a gentle and exquisite design sense, perfectly presenting the design intention.

These curves are soft, smooth, agile, light and transparent, aesthetically pleasing, and highly recognizable, presenting a diverse and varied appearance that breaks through conventional architectural forms, bringing a unique architectural beauty and visual impact, and endowing the building with more creativity and vitality.