Miluo Highway Service Center

The highway service center is the only place where people can stay on the highway closed passage, which has three attributes of traffic field, service place and consumption scene. Located in the Pingjiang to Yiyang Expressway in Hunan Province with the pile number of K108, also the hometown of Dragon boat poetry, Miluo Highway Service Center is the first Qu Yuan intangible cultural heritage theme service center, and only seven kilometers away from Miluo City. It covers a total land area of 13.6282 hectares and the complex building in the north district occupies a construction area of 4,797 square meters, involving the functions of parking, refueling, catering, toilet, entertainment, leisure, and characteristic commerce. The completion of the project realizes the integration of dragon boat culture, earthscape architecture and Suburban function, which can not only meet the needs of highway users, but also expand to the road-land sharing service complex for Miluo citizen.

The design practice aims to transform the basic traffic space into a composite service space by organizing the needs and interaction between people, environment, place and culture, and explore a state of symbiosis, sharing and empathy. To be specific: (1) Symbiosis - indistinct boundary: The slope surface is used to dissolve the vertical spatial constraints to the horizontal, and the landscape community of far (water surface) and near (service center) is constructed; (2) Sharing - place integration: The integration of road and land of road derivation (road derived economy) and city extension (suburban park); (3) Empathy - time and space experience: The mimicry space based on dragon boat guides the public perception of intangible cultural heritage to form historical continuity. Based on the continuation of the original form and texture characteristics of the surrounding villages, the architectural layout applies interweaving, aspect, concave-convex, gap and other techniques to arrange and disperse the volume, and uses the composition of staggered settlements to abstract the poetic scene of "dragon boat race", guiding the infiltrating light and shadow to create a lively rhythm of the place. The contrast between the hard paved road and the ecological water environment of the site forms the microclimate cycle of the site. The staggered spaces bring natural breathable "transparency" to the building interface, and "filter" the natural wind, light and heat with moderate delay and attenuation, thus forming a multi-level microclimate cycle, making the building space a container for enjoying wind, light and ecological resources. The interconnected slope roof is the variation of the building facade and the three-dimensional extension of the site, which can release the stereo multi-dimensional activity space while eliminating the site boundary. The barrier-free three-dimensional path and the roof blank space guide people to carry out interesting exploration activities, reduce the fatigue caused by driving, and generate a rich emotional experience.