Beijing architects META-Project have completed an exhibition centre at the beach of a former
fishing village in China that is now developing into a summer holiday
destination.
Surrounded by fishing boats, the Huludao Beach Exhibit
Centre has a glass-speckled concrete volume driven through its
middle, which contains the staircases leading up to its cantilevered first
floor and rooftop.
The cantilevered facade projects out towards the shore and
contains a series of meeting areas, while a glazed, double-height exhibition
hall is positioned just behind.The area beneath the building’s canopy is used as sheltered
event space.
We’ve featured a few ambitious projects proposed for China in
recent months, including an art museum with four
overlapping peaks and a hotel
comprising lots of small buildings on a gigantic set of shelves.
Huludao Beach Exhibition Centre dwg
Huludao Beach Exhibition Centre dwg
Here’s a lengthier description from META-Project:
Huludao Beach Exhibit Center by META-Project
META-Project, a Beijing based research-practice studio has
designed an exhibit center on the beach of Huludao, northeast of China, a
project which re-established the relationship between the cultural activities
and it’s natural environment.
Previous a fishing village protected by the surrounding hills, a
river running though the center, the Dragon Bay is the essence of
Northeast-Chinese coastal idyll. Yet still scattered with fishing boats and
nets, now it is facing the city’s upcoming development: situated on the west
coast of Bohai Sea rim, with only 3 hours of traffic from Beijing, the site
offers a natural resource that is so rare across the north of china due to its
climate – “the beach”, which attracts tens of millions of people from Beijing
and Northeast-China to spend their summer here.
As the first building on the beach, META-Project’s Exhibit
Center will vitalize the Dragon Bay into a new resort and residential hub for
the Liaoning Province of China.
Public Stage
The Exhibit Center is about creating a common base for the bay
area, that not only absorb the reserved visitors’, but also attract the public
attention and generate more topics. In this currently deserted land, with only
a few gigantic infrastructural construction sites, we choose to located the
building next to the public beach activity zone – 100 meters from the
waterline, so as to set the building as a “Public Stage”, turning each event
into a public show.
Thus, the center contains exhibition space, gallery, cinema, meeting
rooms, café/bar, covered event space and even a beach-sport field in front,
offering all sorts of activities for the visitors of the bay. While elevating
their expectations, it also activates the cultural life of the entire city.
Simplified Dynamics
META-Project’s design is rather a clear deduction process, than
a generalized solution. The panoramic sea view is of prime importance for the
building, so the concept had to be decongested and cleared, emptied of any
symbolic content, so as to stimulate a new reality, which enhances the
experience of the sea.
Experiencing the sea horizon from multiple levels becomes the
buibing’s own demand, such concept is deducted to a key section: to float the
front 2/3 of the building – creating a cantilevered floor for the “stage” to
catch more public attention, at the same time offering a covered space for
outdoor event; and additionally, a roof-top viewing deck opening to the entire
surroundings.
Visitors entering the building, elevated to the cantilevered
floor through the inclinded stair-cube, then totally engulfed by the panoramic
sea view, this simplified sectional dynamics is actually controlling the entire
building, and to let the spatial experience unfold around the differnt level of
views.
The main volume of the building is a floating box of 35m x 35m,
perpendicular to the seashore, with floor to ceiling glass curtain on the south
side maximizing the panoramic view.
The cast-in-place concrete stair-cube, which links the three
levels of circulation, also functions as the structural support for the
cantilever. It bluntly penetrates the floating box with a 25-degree
inclination. To augment this conflict, 150 random ecllips holes are perforated
through the concrete wall.
In shear contrast, the double-hight exhibition space under the
other side of the cantiliver is totally transparent, with full-height glass on
3 sides to maximize the beach view. It does not collide into the floating box,
but rather carved out a space from it.
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Between the two cubes, where it supposed to be the center of the
plan, the massing is unexpectedly empty, allowing light casting into the back
of the building, at the same time adding another layer of nature into the complexity
of space.
Other program includes ground-floor reception bar portuding out
of the north facade, steel meeting-room box floating between the floor and
ceiling, linear gallery and sky-bridge linking the model space to the west –
Each program forms a clear defined volume that collides with one another in an
almost “unresolved” manner. Such “collision”lead to rough but vital tension,
through which a space of unexpected complexity emerges.
The building as a whole is a result of the clear deduction and
programatic-volumetric combination. Through this speculation, META-Project trys
to demonstrate how to catalyze spatial complexity based upon a simplified
dynamics, and how to address concerns for the public in a commercial-based
project.
Project: Huludao Beach Exhibit Center
Location: Huludao, Liaoning, North-east China
Program: Reception, Exhibition area, Meeting rooms, Gallery, Cinema, Café/Bar, Covered event space and Beach-sport field
Location: Huludao, Liaoning, North-east China
Program: Reception, Exhibition area, Meeting rooms, Gallery, Cinema, Café/Bar, Covered event space and Beach-sport field
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