Architects:TJAD Original Design Studio

Area :223 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :ZY Architectural Photography

Lead Architects :Ming Zhang, Zi Zhang

Facility Engineer :Department No.1 TJAD

Project Architects : Xunan Wang, Chun Ding

Design Team : Linqi Zhang, Xiang Wang, Luwei Guo, Hao Liu (Intern)

Structure Engineer : Jun Nan, Zheng Zhang, Lujie Chen, Lin Jiang

Client : Sinopec Shanghai Branch

City : Shanghai

Country : China

No. 1 Sinopec Gas Station is located in the upper riverside along the Suzhou River, near its junction to Huangpu River. It was formerly China's first state-owned gas station built in 1948. The original building is used as supermarket and office with a steel structure that works as a canopy. The structure itself lacks publicity and transparency. Besides, there is a lack of proper diversion between motor vehicles that want to refuel and the public. Furthermore, the excellent river landscape cannot be absorbed by the supermarket and the gas station. Cultural resources are wasted. Therefore, the focus of our design is how to make a breakthrough of gas station type and form an infrastructure that is publicly transparent, suitable for circulation, complex in function, and fit for contemporary context.