Introduction

The three-storey X-building is built for Rolex and Hazan Motorworks. Underground is used as the showroom of Hazan Motorworks. The inspiration of the shape of this area comes from the word “fabricate”. The whole area looks like an uncompleted cuboid and the irregular part keeps the original underground appearance. It implies that the company will not stop producing and will maintain their products from beginning to end. Then above the ground, there are two constructions in the same shape but different size. The bigger one is for Hazan Motorworks, the other one is for Rolex. Two S-like constructions stand side by side to make an 'X', just appear like the fingers on the watch.  The stairs connecting underground and the ground floor of  Hazan Motorworks follows the trend of stratum. Customers can make purchase on level G. Level1 is used as office and workshop, so it is only accessable for stuff. A mini cablecar runs between two constructions. Moving to the building for Rolex, visitors may find the stair connecting level 1 and the ground floor is special. It goes after the tendency of the hook face and is made up of three parts. The design is aimed at keep visitors working just like time. Ground floor is the showroom as well as the perchase area of Rolex. A spiral stair enables people to access the showroom of  Hazan Motorworks from Rolex. Another unique design is the glass on the ground between two constructions. In this way, energy used on lighting reduces as natural light can go into the underground part through the 'window' placed on the ground. As for materials, concrete is used for the main body, colourful glass and glass with pattern are used on windows, and timber is used on stairs.

Model can be found on 3Dwarehouse: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=ucd07aa30-ce1d-48a1-91e8-53082a73d74c

x building exterior

This video shows the facade of the building from varied angles of view.

x building customer experiencing

This video shows a route for customer.(The scenes change fast. If it is too hasty, you can go to see the additional video followed.)

x building section

This video shows the sections from two different views.

x building additional

As the building is large, 15 seconds may be hasty. This additional video can help you know about the building better.

x building additional1

Images of the building

This picture shows the building with shadow(time: 10a.m., March 31st, 2015)

 (viewing from the southwest)

 

This section shows the interior from profile

 

This section shows the special stair connecting ground floor and level 1 as well as the glass placed on the ground for daylighting.

 

This drawing shows the funtion of each area and the access to each area.

 

This drawing shows the material used in the building.

 

 

In additional to the images above, following images show the exterior of the building.

36 Texture

bubbling repeating

vigorous whirlpool

disordered scattered

 

rippling glass

stony sharp

natural wavy

 

dotted classic

straight twisting

cell folding

 

symmetrical knife-edged

 phantoscope piling

crude free

 

stair rolling

broken simple

dizzy windmill

 

timber rough

diffuse smooth

pure precise

18 Sections

precise + free

 

precise + fabricate

 

precise + convenience

 

repeat + free

 

repeat + fabricate

 

repeat + convenience

 

time + free

 

time + fabricate

 

time + convenience

 

Three Words for each client

Rolex: time, precise, repeat

Christian Benner Custom: style, warm, show

Hazan Motorworks: convenience, free, fabricate

Texture

xhouse and stairs

Brief introduction of the building

This building is built for the world-famous watch company Rolex. It has one floor under the ground and two floors above the ground.

The ground floor is manufacturing shop and repairing shop. The inspiration of the shape of this area comes from the word “fabricate”. The whole area looks like an uncompleted cuboid and the irregular part keeps the original underground appearance. It implies that the company will not stop producing and will maintain their products from beginning to end.

The above-ground part consists of two connected ladder-shaped prismatic. The afflatus of the exterior comes from the most significant characteristic of watches, precise. The single layer one is showroom. Customers can find almost all the products of Rolex in this area, no matter the classic ones or the latest ones. The two-layer one is workshop, the candle of new ideas and originality.

Guests can go to any part of the above-ground portions by spiral stairs. Each prismatic has a roof garden, which can be accessed by stairs inside the building. An armoured glass walkway links the two prismatic.

Sketchup building