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Rice Wine Town Reception Room Cultural Exhibition

Silver A' Design Award Winner 2022

Scanning from background to foreground, this architectural photograph presents a four-story building constructed from pale golden timber against a tranquil landscape. The distant background reveals a soft atmospheric band of blue-violet mountains, their forms dissolving into the hazy sky like watercolor washed across the horizon. The sky itself transitions from pale powder blue at the zenith to a warmer cream near the horizon. In the middle distance stretches a wide, calm river or lake, its surface reflecting the cool silvery-blue of the sky with mirror-like stillness. The opposite shoreline presents a horizontal band of trees in muted sage greens and autumn bronze tones, punctuated by vertical utility poles. Moving forward to the main subject, the building dominates the right two-thirds of the composition, rising approximately four stories with a distinctive timber framework construction. The structure feels like stacked and interlocking wooden beams, their warm honey and amber tones suggesting smooth, freshly milled timber with visible grain patterns. Projecting from each rectangular opening are angled horizontal panels in silvery white, creating a rhythmic pattern across the facade like partially opened pages of a book. These louvers catch the warm afternoon light on their upper surfaces while casting cool shadows beneath. On the rooftop terrace, a vivid red sculptural installation commands attention, its color as intense as ripe tomatoes or lacquered furniture, providing striking contrast against the neutral surroundings. Small trees in planters soften the rooftop edge. The foreground presents gray asphalt roadways curving around the building's perimeter, with young trees displaying autumn coloring. The overall impression combines architectural warmth with landscape serenity, suggesting a space designed for cultural gathering in harmony with its natural setting.

Shaoxing rice wine has a long history and its culture is deeply rooted in this soil. Dongpu town, where the project is located, has been the center of Shaoxing wine industry since ancient times. The project is associated with traditional Chinese construction methods, and responds to complex functional construction demands with a unified modular design language, responds to the site and history, infuses the vitality of the Times into the thousand-year-old ancient town, and inherits the yellow rice wine culture in a dynamic way.