Zhuhai Culture Center Competition Design Concept

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Zhuhai Culture Center Competition Design Concept
2nd price in international architectural competition

Architects: 10 Design
Location: Zhuhai, China
Year: 2013 Design
Team: Gordon Affleck , Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Frisly Colop Morales, Adrian Yau, Rita Pang, Sandy Lee, Jon Martin, Radek Szafran, Jose Castaneda, Shane Dale
Website: www.10design.co

Our proposal tries to reflect both the unique environment and the importance of of Zhuhai, but as a Museum of art it has to educate and encourage discussion and to do this the facility must be a welcoming and truly public building.

In order to encourage this we have designed the building as an extension of Lovers Boulevard, creating a series of elevated activity platforms that truly interacts and the public and in doing so makes the building more approachable and hopefully entices them in. In doing so we believe our proposal will provide a positive contribution to the urban realm and cultural context and will not simply be a civic statement.

One of the unique features of Zhuhai is the sculptural coastline and the rock formations created by the movement of the water, wind and the tides. Like the coastal forms the building has also been sculpted but by the movement of people not the elements. Expected movement from both the Lover’s Boulevard and the city sculpts both the external and internal form in the same way that the elements have sculpted the rock forms over time. The sculpting of the building is by both projected vertical and horizontal circulation provides a sculptural but informed building form.
The sculpted form is restricted to only where the building interacts with the users, so only the entry and waterfront edges are sculpted while the southerly and westerly edges retain a rational grid and rational structure. Enforcing the idea of erosion with the waterfront volume being degenerated the most as are the granite coastal rocks.