Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
Next to the Yisiqiao Reservoir in the suburb of Chenggong District, Kunming City, China, the terraced Expanded Cloud Experience Center by Shanghai Urban for Yunnan Health & Cultural Tourism Investment & Development Co., Ltd. integrates gracefully into its sloping web site.
For its impressed integration with its environment, Expanded Cloud Experience Center has not too long ago been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The surrounding setting of the constructing’s web site is quiet and boasts lovely pure assets.
The web site has an elevation distinction of greater than 10 meters, and the 3-story constructing quantity was conceived to subtly clear up this.
Instead of unfolding the constructing parallel to the lake, the design crew adopted the web site’s elevation distinction to arrange the format in accordance with it, thereby making the constructing horizontally “grow” out of the slope.
Visitors are immersed in the lovely surroundings from a distant lake to the close to waterscape.

Several terraces have been constructed towards the waterscape from either side to mix with the pure setting.
While strolling down from the prime ground to the backside stage, guests can experience the transition from architectural house to pure house.
The transitional spaces, terraces, and lined corridors are for varied customer actions.
The inside spaces are related by the central landscape staircase.
The exterior lined corridors, terraces, and glass curtain partitions assist hyperlink the inside and outdoors spaces and deliver the out of doors landscapes into the inside.
The built-in design of giant overhanging eaves and wood buildings ensures the completeness and stability of the total building.
The undertaking makes use of pure supplies, similar to pink cedar matchboard cladding at the backside of the eaves and stones on the north facade, presenting each tough and light pure textures.
The undertaking makes use of wood parts for the inside design and retains the present bushes for landscape design.
The design adopted a wood construction on the prime ground and a steel construction on the decrease two ranges.
The wood construction realizes a large-span column-free house, orderly curved beams, and five-meter-long overhanging eaves, integrating it with the setting, whereas the steel construction achieves the “growing” constructing type and overhanging eaves and can also be in a position to withstand magnitude 8.5 earthquakes.
All efforts for this undertaking have been meant to create an best pure constructing and discover the relationship between architecture and nature.

Project: Expanded Cloud Experience Center
Architects: Shanghai Urban Architecture Design Co., Ltd.
Design Team: Chen Wenhao, Li Peng, Chen Lei, Shan Nvyi, Wang Tingting, and Wang Xiaoyan
General Contractor: YCIH No.6 Construction Co., Ltd.
Client: Yunnan Health & Cultural Tourism Investment & Development Co., Ltd.
Photographers: ZYStudio