Hangzou Oil Refinery Factory Park / MVRDV
Still frames extrapolated from the three minutes animation commissioned by MVRDV in 2022 for the Hangzou Oil Refinery Factory Park in China.
MVRDV won the 1st prize in this competition.
Animation is still confidential.
About the project:
"Transforming a former oil refinery alongside China's Grand Canal, the project integrates the silos and towers of the refinery buildings into a park with a parametrically-designed forest. The centrepiece of the park is the Art and Sci-tech Centre, a new museum which, with its cylindrical exterior, is imagined as a vastly scaled-up version of the silos which once peppered the site.
The simple form of the museum's exterior conceals a highly complex interior: atop a circular exhibition hall that is partially buried below ground level, a stack of long, rectangular boxes, connected by stairs and bridges, that serve to enliven this public area within the museum. On the façade of this building, as well as other new structures, an array of solar panels help the park to become energy-negative in operation, contributing energy to the grid".
Year: 2022
Client: MVRDV
Images © Imperfct*
Still frames extrapolated from the three minutes animation commissioned by MVRDV in 2022 for the Hangzou Oil Refinery Factory Park in China.
MVRDV won the 1st prize in this competition.
Animation is still confidential.
About the project:
"Transforming a former oil refinery alongside China's Grand Canal, the project integrates the silos and towers of the refinery buildings into a park with a parametrically-designed forest. The centrepiece of the park is the Art and Sci-tech Centre, a new museum which, with its cylindrical exterior, is imagined as a vastly scaled-up version of the silos which once peppered the site.
The simple form of the museum's exterior conceals a highly complex interior: atop a circular exhibition hall that is partially buried below ground level, a stack of long, rectangular boxes, connected by stairs and bridges, that serve to enliven this public area within the museum. On the façade of this building, as well as other new structures, an array of solar panels help the park to become energy-negative in operation, contributing energy to the grid".
Year: 2022
Client: MVRDV
Images © Imperfct*
