Central Ring Art Gallery is a small art district where art meets the public. We envision it as a must-visit rendezvous in Hefei, the capital of Anhui, a second-tier city in eastern China. Located in the middle of a typical urban jungle encompassed by high-rises, the campus is an urban retreat in the concrete forest.
The main gallery building stands afloat, giving way to the landscape to be continuous and extending throughout the site. As a result, the architecture becomes part of the landscape, allowing opportunities for outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces to host various art activities.
Two exhibition spaces, are installed within the main building with openings to the sky. Space around these two ‘cubes’ is opened-up in a way that the facade is highly permeable; the indoor and the outdoor connect via the building skin. The experience of walking along these hallways is liminal. People can enjoy both the indoor informal art display and the nature beyond.
The exterior skin wrapping around the main building mass is white with a tint of gray. Pink, yellow and green are applied to interior skin to echo the picturesque landscape of the region in spring: pink for cherry blossom, yellow for rape flower and green for young grass or leaves. Exhibition halls are well-lit white cubes to ensure a simple background for artworks displayed. In spaces of movement such as the vertical core and the walkways colors are applied. People come in and out and become parts of the drama.
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Last year more than 40 countries took part in the WAN Awards with strong showings from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. And we saw some truly outstanding projects, take a look at the winners from last year here.