Forestry Tower

studio505 were invited to offer an architectural proposal for the Wujin Agriculture and Forestry Bureau.  Research into the local culture and the requirements of the department in charge of ‘Agriculture' and ‘Forestry' resulted in this new and exciting project.  studio505's concept utilises key design metaphors such as farmland, forestry, wells and gardens which are closely related to agriculture and forestry.  Our first response to the brief led us to the notion of harvest and that the people who work the land, grow and cut the timber, gather and stack the produce bring order and harmony to the community. 

The generation of the form has come from a desire to create a building that correlates to the many manners in which the harvested natural product is cut, gathered, stacked and stored at the hands of the people who work the land.  Inspired by the notion of harvest and the stacking of timber and produce, the floor plan has been configured and developed into a form and series of stacked blocks.

Our concept aimed to provide a sustainable design proposal for the Wujin Agriculture and Forestry Bureau with a strong Chinese cultural sense. The individual tower blocks were treated as carved seal stones, or chops, symbolic of the scope and charge of the Wujin Agricultural and Forestry Bureau.  studio505 studied ancient Chinese characters linked to crops and land remediation, using them in the facade design and shading system ensuring that the product and project were in complete harmony.  The pattern detail of the facade was partially sourced from an abstraction of timber grains and from the depth found in a crystallised jade or stone carved seal.

中国常州市武进区农林局对推进常州地区农业和园林产业具有重要作用，这对拥有悠久历史的当地农林产业具有特殊意义。505工作室在林业大厦的设计中隐喻了各种与农林业密切相关的元素，如田地，森林，水井，和花园等。

工作室根据中国古代文字，将其与稻谷和土地的主题结合运用到建筑立面和遮阳结构的设计中。工作室希望能够设计出既环保，又具有中国当地文化特色的提案。