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The Chinese Cultural Hall in Chengdu
17 Nov 2021
Architecture: aoe
Location: Chengdu, China

Chinese Cultural Hall
The Chinese Cultural Hall is located to the east of the Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange Center. It can be reached from the Sino-Italian Pavilion through the cultural corridor surrounded by bamboo forests. The Chinese Cultural Hall is composed of multifunctional halls, meeting rooms, restaurants, piano pavilions, and tea rooms, and the design is filled of oriental charm.

At the onset of the design process, the architect hoped to find an intersection of Chinese and Western cultural differences: the overall layout concept of the site was taken from the “ruyi”, used by China to gift foreign envoys since ancient times as a symbol of friendly relations and peace between the two countries. The east and west pavilions are connected by a cultural corridor, and it is surrounded by ponds and bamboo forests. The Chinese Cultural Hall and the Chinese-Italian Cultural Hall use Italian squares as their spatial prototypes. Through the creation of scenery, form, meaning, and emotion, they interpret the cultural philosophy of the harmony between man and nature in the Eastern world.
Scenery

The original site of the site is a bamboo forest, with a pond on the west side. The starting point is to preserve the bamboo forest as much as possible, and to integ...