Located in the waterfront public park along the lake shore, the Center requires two major art exhibition spaces. One is with minimum daylighting for multimedia display; another with the possibility of sight-seeing. In order to limit its impact on the surroundings, we positioned the former on the ground floor in a cubical form and buried into the undulated green mound. The major volume visible from city is the latter, in a form of a big ‘ring’, hovering above the land. The floating ‘ring’ expresses its trusswork as a crown, celebrating the city’s achievement.
The ‘ring’ with a diameter of 51.2 m is supported by only 3 columns, with big spans in between to allow unobstructed views underneath.
All the columns at the perimeter of the ‘ring’ are eliminated by a cantilevered structure to ensure a panoramic view out from inside the ‘ring’.
By burying and lifting the major volumes, we give the outdoor space back to the city. Between two completely different spaces of purest geometries, between earth and sky, there are platforms at multiple levels to accommodate different public activities. The building becomes an open architecture where people can promenade.
The purpose of an art center in a city’s new district is usually far beyond art itself. It becomes an icon, a celebrating place for the public to gather, to share or to contemplate and somewhere everybody can easily access with or without the purpose of art and get meaningful experience by simply being there.
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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.