Aranya Cloud Center Qinhuangdao, Hebei Building Photos, New Chinese Architecture Design
Aranya Cloud Center Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
2 September 2022
MAD Architects Reveals the Latest Construction Details of Aranya ?Cloud Center,? a Floating Structure
Design: MAD Architects
Location: Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, Northern China

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Images by MAD Architects unless stated otherwise
Aranya Cloud Center, Qinhuangdao Building Design
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has nearly completed construction of the ?Cloud Center? in Aranya Community, Qinhuangdao, a port city 160 miles east of Beijing, China, with a population of over three million. Including a grand hall, a gallery and a small theatre within a footprint of just over 2,500 square meters, the Center will serve as a much-needed public art space for the bustling artistic seaside community that, from the outside, will mark the center of a sculptural landscape that MAD had conceptualized as a ?white stone garden.?
The Cloud Center is designated to have a singular architecture becoming the component to a larger context. With a reflective pond, a garden, and surrounding woods, the entirety forms a peaceful dreamscape envisioned by Ma Yansong. Inspired by the shape and lightweight appearance of clouds, the gallery in the main volume of the architecture was engineered to appear as though it is floating above the rolling landscape that surrounds it.

This effect was made possible through the creation of a numbe...