{"id":214694,"date":"2023-08-16T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=214694"},"modified":"2023-08-16T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:51:53","slug":"copper-blockhouse-wutopia-lab-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/copper-blockhouse-wutopia-lab-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"A Multiuse Shanghai Building Fuses Shelter and Shipbuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 16, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Multiuse Shanghai Building Fuses Shelter and Shipbuilding<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Shelter and shipbuilding inspired Copper Blockhouse, a sleek fortress of a multiuse building in Shanghai by Wutopia Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wutopia Lab chief architect Ting Yu\u2019s painting shows the concept for the Copper Blockhouse commercial building, its shape borrowed from the air-raid shelter that previously occupied the Shanghai site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Commercial Building Made of Copper<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sketchup software models show the copper-and-glass exterior and steel-framed windows of the 4,360-square-foot project, the heart of the 1\u00bd-acre creative-industry campus for Wutopia client Shanghai Jiayun Investment Management Development Co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Autocad rendering shows the small hut inside the building, which would be made from stainless steel and house a caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the course of nearly two years, workers built the struc\u00adture, placing insulation sheets between copper plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those plates sheathed both the inside and outside of the welded structural steel frame, a process similar to shipbuilding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Making of Copper Blockhouse<\/h3>\n\n\n\n