The Glade Bookstore Chongqing, China retail design photos, Chinese architecture images
The Glade Bookstore in Chongqing
26 Nov 2024
Architects: HAS design and research
Location: Chongqing, China
Photos: Yu Bai
The Glade Bookstore, Chongqing
The Glade is a cultural brand as well as a compound bookstore, providing a new lifestyle. It is a place for a bookstore, coffee, afternoon tea, restaurant, bar, cultural and creative industries, and irregular exhibitions. The origin of The Glade came from two famous initiator teams in Chongqing, The Razor’s Edge and One Day, who cooperated to provide a quiet and restful place of void for Chongqing, or even busy metropolises in China.
The Glade is situated in the center of Chongqing. Hundreds of years ago, in a military book titled Six Secret Teachings, this place was called ‘the mountain city.’ Furthermore, from the painting The Mountain City of Chongqing by the well-known Chinese ink painter Guanzhong Wu, the founders and architects Jenchieh Hung and Kulthida Songkittipakdee of HAS Design and Research were inspired by the depiction of the specific topography of the mountains and the various senses of scale. However, today, the superb landscape is dominated by a great number of super-high-rises, and the organic natural environment has been transformed into lackluster concrete structures. We can only find the beauty of the mountain city and its distinctive stilt houses in the countryside, away from the city, on rare occasions.
The Glade is not only a compound bookstore, but as the meaning conveyed by its name, it means tearing up the cold concrete ground and planting a spiritual space in the high-density city. The design continues this philosophy. It connects the split first floor and second floor with the spatial form of stilt houses; the lower floor is like the grey space of stilt houses, providing functions of reading, talking, resting, and sharing; with space at intervals and with the design of undulating stairs, it creates a micro-mountain city to form a dynamic and explorative reading space. The upper floor is a continuous big roof of the stilt houses, which integrates the space of coffee, afternoon tea, restaurant, bar, and bookstore by using 6mm lines. Besides, in this distinct space, the change of light and shadow, time, site, and environment are still tangible.
The project finally shows the combination of materials and space and demonstrates unique constructional aesthetics. The Glade began as an adaptation to Chongqing in the ancient form of a stilt house and progressed to the exploration of complex functions in order to consider the standardization, multifunctionality, and flexibility of modern bookstores. The importance of The Glade is more than its special philosophy. It also provides a cultural symbol and a sense of belonging beyond the busy city life in diverse and delicate spaces.
The Glade Bookstore in China – Building Information
Architecture Architect: HAS design and research – https://hasdesignandresearch.com/
Lead architect: Jenchieh Hung, Kulthida Songkittipakdee
Design team: Jenchieh Hung, Kulthida Songkittipakdee, Kanchaporn Kieatkhajornrit, Pimpasson Gangvanpanich, Qinye Chen,
Panhuili Cheng, Zhongjun Dou
Lighting design: Jenna Tsailin Liu, Qiuwei Zheng
Lighting technology: Visual Feast (VF)
Structure consultant: Huazhu Architecture Design Group
Landscape consultant: LISM Landscape Design
Kitchen consultant: Chongqing Bailey Kitchen Co., Ltd.
Construction management: Jason Yin
Construction: Nengqiang Yu
Wood furniture constructor: Chongqing Longyi Decoration Project Co., Ltd.
Site area: 1,000 sq.m.
Gross built area: 1,360 sq.m.
Client: The Glade
Photography: Yu Bai
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Location: Chongqing, China
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