Tourism center
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Project • By kalbod design studio • City Halls
Tourist Center Sorkhrud
The tourist attraction city of Sorkhroud, located by the waters of the Caspian Sea, has suffered from a lack of proper public places for many years. At Kalbod Design Studio, we decided to address this issue by creating a tourism center in this area to provide an awe-inspiring public space for entertainment and communication between the locals and tourists.
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To develop our Sorkhroud beach town project, which is under construction in the neighboring site, we designed the entertainment center to meet the social needs of the tourists or residents and complete the beach town project in function and concept.
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Inspired by the orientations of the beach town villas, we devised a repetitive mass and void algorithm and design... More
News • News • 17 Dec 2021
Xinxiang Cultural Tourism Center shaped like an arrangement of glazed ice cubes
The glazed beacon welcomes visitors to a new Xinxiang tourism district dedicated to winter sports. Mathieu Forest Architecte and Zone Of Utopia Architecture arranged the program into nine glazed cubes slightly offset from each other.
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The glass panels are printed with translucent ice crystals to filter the light. The double facade is suspended by stainless steel cables and minimal steel connections.
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The architect was inspired by the metaphor of ice cubes transformed to a liquid state to represent the lake and winter sports theme.
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From the north the stacked cubes form a 34-meter vertical gap that invites the visitor to enter inside. At night the facade is fully luminated and radiates a uni... More