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Roca Beijing Gallery Building
Dongzhimen Store: New Chinese Architecture – design by MAD, architects
28 May 2017
Roca Beijing Gallery Building
Location: Beijing, China
Design: Ma Yansong of MAD architects with Yasuhisa Toyota
MAD Completes Beijing Roca Gallery
May 27, 2017, Beijing – MAD Architects has completed Roca?s Beijing Gallery in Dongzhimen, near the Beijing East Second Ring Road.

The project consists of an unobstructed gallery space that opens up to its urban environment; behind double-height glazing, the interior walls of both of the gallery?s floors, finished with a screen of LEDs, become a new façade for the city.
?I hope that the Roca Beijing Gallery can become a positive, vivid corner of the urban community, connecting people and city in the simplest way,? says Ma Yansong, MAD Architect?s founding principal.

The multimedia surface is intended to provide spectators accessible, vibrant glimpses into projected realities that challenge their senses and their rectilinear environments — creating an atmosphere that is a fluid mixture of light, movement, and people.

The content of the screens, such as simulated depictions of people using the showrooms, seemingly unaware of their visitors or any observation, playfully connects the Roca Beijing Gallery?s internal spaces.

An intentional ambiguity of ?interior? and ?exterior? is perceptible for those passing the...