Ordos Art Museum is the first building of Ordos’ new civic center on a stretch of sand dunes along the lake that is dedicated as a “public corridor” with art and cultural facilities. This 29,000 sq.ft. of exhibition and research space is distributed within an undulating form with a central span lifting clear off the ground, suggesting a desert viper winding over the dunes.
The space is conceived as one uninterrupted room with a series of openings absorbing natural light while offering cinematic views of the raw surroundings; the art exhibition …

 
In year 2007, China Art Institute has programmed 8 museums for 8 individual Chinese artists in Qingchengshan, Chengdu in southwest China.
Among these 8 artists, Wu Shanzhuan is the only conceptual artist whose work interpret or re-interpret our daily life stretched from early 80’s, the very beginning of Chinese contemporary art era.

In his 1000sm museum, a permanent exhibition will be installed chronologically along public viewing loop, which, has been transformed into the “Perfect Brackets”, an important symbol and philosophy of Wu. Thus the building will stand as a large scale installation …

Jinhua Architecture Park, Zhejiang Public Toilet
A public toilet is indeed a private space. Located in Jinhua Architecture Park among sixteen other public pavilions designed by architects worldwide. This public facility is organized as individual units, maximizing the privacy while minimizing land use in the park. These units can be reproduced and installed flexibly according to future needs. The bending tube shape ensures protection and privacy, as well as functional requirements such as ventilation and natural lighting, without interrupting the connection between user and park.

Located on an irregular former industrial lot in the well known art village Songzhuang, Xiaopu Cultural Center is a multi-functional complex including exhibition galleries, five residency artist studios, exhibition workshop, art shop, and administration.
The diverse programs are unified through a Tangram layout adapting to the site, while vertically distributed into dual-levels: the public program on the ground level as a compact volume with courtyards, and the private working area occupies the upper level with individual studios allowing a view traveling across the red-tiled roofscape of this typical northern Chinese village.
The …

Songzhuang art center
Songzhuang Art Center is the first public art facility built in this well-recognized contemporary chinese art village 45 minutes drive out of Beijing city.  With around 4000 artists living in Songzhuang area by 2008, this Art Center will provide a platform for local community.
The exhibition space is lifted up to create a welcoming horizontal flow with multi-purpose on ground level, to host exhibition, events and casual common area. The second level is rather introversive art space with only sky light or courtyard light. The surrounding landscape does not …

Pavilion e!
A temporary pavilion addressed to contemporary living and environmental issues will be introduced to the 6 months of exhibition at Shanghai expo 2010. To serve this global event and city festival, the building first evolves from ground forming an undulating surface forming a covered city electronic plaza. By mirroring this undulated surface vertically, 3 large exhibition halls are embraced by both surfaces, allowing mega scale hologram of environmental information and indoor entertainment, as well as creating a hilly-topo of roof eco-garden. An outdoor loop of escalators and corridors crosses …

Xixi Leisure Center is one of the 12 buildings located in an art and culture compound in Xixi National Wetland Park, a cluster architecture commissioned to 12 Chinese architects by Hangzhou city government. Hangzhou has been well known for its long history, rich culture and the West Lake landscape. Xixi art and culture compound is part of development to stimulate cultural tourism.
The leisure center will house leisure function as open and continuous circulation on ground level and sunken into activity pools imitating paths and ponds of wetland topography, while on …

Songzhuang artist village
Located in Tong Zhou District,eastern outskirts of Beijing, Songzhuang is the most famous and biggest artist community in China. The first artists moved here including Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun,in the early 1990’s, having been driven out of another community near the Old Summer Palace in Beijing’s north-west. For more than 10 years these artists were virtual outcasts with much of their work politically inspired, lived and worked under the watchful eye of communist authorities. With the booming of Chinese art market, Songzhuang is undergoing a dramatic expansion …

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