Yantai Experience Centre, Shandong Province Transport Hub, Chinese Architecture Project Images
Yantai Experience Centre in Shandong Province
15 Apr 2021
Yantai Experience Centre
Architects: More Design Office
Location: Yantai, northeastern Shandong Province, China

Yantai is a coastal city on the Shandong Peninsula in Jinan, defined by its hilly topography, its incredible fresh sea food and its winter snow.

MDO were commissioned to create the Yantai Experience Centre, a landmark at the corner of the central axis of a new development area, south of the Fengshan Scenic Area.

The surrounding building fabric is typified by tall blocks of office and residences. MDO imagined the new building as a contrast to the homogeneity of the new development, through form, materiality and relationship with the landscape.
The central heart ? The snow-crystal plan

The typical exhibition centre is designed as a loop or a one way path. Often a courtyard or site model is placed at the centre as a focus, circulation is linear, lacking interconnection between distant spaces.

We decided to challenge this norm by creating a public area at its centre, a place for discussion and interaction. We wanted to design the space to be more human centric and welcoming.

The other functions are arranged as peripheral crystal ‘ramifications’, connected to the central heart.

The architecture becomes unity of positive and negative spaces. Like a snow-crystal structure that can be read as a pattern...