Yifang Art Center in Yubei District, Chongqing Public Building, Chinese Architecture, Images
Yifang Art Center in Chongqing, China
24 Aug 2020
Yifang Art Center in Yubei District, Chongqing
Design: YIHE Landscape Architecture
Location: Yubei District, Chongqing, south west China

The Yifang Art Center project is in a newly developed Dazhulin district in the north of Chongqing downtown. When YIHE Landscape Architecture first visited the site, it had an unfinished concrete structure from previous development. The Client Sunac stepped in and had a vision to develop Dazhulin as a new TOD project. Surrounding by future mixed-use development, our goal is to reuse and redesign the abandoned concrete structure as new community core. It will serve for nearby residents and visitors in daily use and host events for special occasions. This new community center has four levels including an indoor swimming pool, a gym, various community amenity rooms, sky bar, and an art gallery. Stairs and elevator are used for circulation between levels.
Idea

YIHE Landscape Architecture have an idea to design the main concrete deck as an ?outdoor gallery?. 30×190 meter shape concrete deck got divided by walls into series of ?exhibition rooms?. The experience from parking lot to building entrance is framed by going through the ?rooms ?as visiting an art gallery. Each room has an exhibition feature. Cascading waterfall, translucent elevator, wave sculpture will be the focal point of each room.
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