ZIP & BDX Studio shared with us their proposal for Tianjin Port East Area in China. Their design objective was to underline and continuously take advantage of the duality between nature and architecture, fixed and changing, curve and angle. This is reflected in their chosen geometry as a clearly geometric, mad-made slab floats over the ground, hardly connecting with it. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Waves twisting and knotting themselves against a tree trunk. Sand dunes shaped by the sudden mood of the wind. These were the images in our mind when we started this project: sculptural, organic shapes posed against hard, clearly-defined points; images suggested by the very location of the site: close to the sea, the Tianjin harbor and the beach, but a man-made beach.
