The OPAL Outstanding Property Award London recently announced its winners. LYCS Architecture`s project "Egrets Waves 2.0 Residence" was selected from over 600 projects to receive the Platinum Award in the Property Development category, 2021 Platnum Winner.
The OPAL london outstanding property awards were created to recognise the efforts of talented international property developers, architects and interior designers, with the aim of improving people's daily lives through practical, well-planned properties and projects.
Egrets WavesLocated in Keqiao, Shaoxing, the base is invested by Shaoxing local enterprise KINCANGGroup, and its planning, architecture, and interior are designed by LYCS Architectureas a whole. Based on the city's long history and the unique texture of the site, the architects took the restoration and enhancement of the city's natural organization as the starting point for the overall planning. The design utilizes the "Three Distant Methods" of ancient landscape painting - namely, high distance, deep distance and flat distance - as the strategy for the architectural layout. From low-density area to high-density area, the buildings are stacked and retreated, so that the natural landscape line of sight penetrates into each household. The design of the building façade extracts the elements that form the stretching lines from the figurative forms, and restores the morphological characteristics of the egret spreading its wings and flying contained in the lines, thus a whole set of form and façade system is developed, so that the façade forms a curved sequence with great tension and a sense of flow. Through the architect's consideration of the linkage design between the building and the interior layout, the gray spaces such as corridors and balconies corresponding to the architectural shape are turned into indoor flow spaces, so that the rooms are no longer segregated independently due to their functions, forming an overall circular flow line, enhancing the accessibility of the entire space, linking up the family's living scenes, and creating a warm and interesting family relationship. This is an innovative human settlement design by LYCS Architecturebased on urban culture and natural ecology.
