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Strait Culture Centro de Arte by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen
Strait Culture Centro de Arte by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen
Strait Culture Centro de Arte by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen
Strait Culture Centro de Arte by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen
Strait Culture Centro de Arte by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen

Platino Arquitectura · 2021

Strait Culture Centro de Arte

by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen

  • A' Design Award de Platino 2021 in Arquitectura
  • CLIENT: PES-Architects Ltd & CHINA CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING DESIGN GROUP CO.,LTD.
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 226,632
  • Verification code 09ADB68154 · Verify this award
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About Strait Culture Centro de Arte

El Centro de Cultura y Arte del Estrecho es un complejo cultural situado en la ribera sur del río Minjiang, en Fuzhou, China. El centro alberga un teatro multifuncional, una ópera, una sala de conciertos, un museo de arte, un centro de cine y televisión y un vestíbulo cultural central. El diseño se inspira en el jazmín, la flor emblemática de Fuzhou. Cinco edificios principales conforman cinco pétalos blancos, y el río Liangcuo discurre entre ellos como un tallo. La cerámica y el bambú, ambos producidos en Fujian, se emplean en las fachadas y los acabados. La plaza exterior, la plataforma de cubierta y el espacio sobre el agua están abiertos al público.

About the A' Design Award de Platino

Strait Culture Centro de Arte ha ganado el A' Design Award de Platino, un reconocimiento sumamente prestigioso concedido a diseños verdaderamente excepcionales, elegantes y magníficos. Los ganadores de Platino son maravillas de la creación, testimonios de los límites de la creatividad intelectual, y demuestran el profesionalismo y el genio inigualables de sus diseñadores. Se espera que estos diseños sean las obras más renombradas, que definen la estética de una época, contribuyen al bienestar de la sociedad y amplían las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Strait Culture Centro de Arte exhibe un nivel trascendente de excelencia y, sin lugar a dudas, hace del mundo un lugar mejor con sus características ventajosas y valiosas. Strait Culture Centro de Arte es una obra ganadora del A' Design Award de Platino que despierta deseos, inspira, entusiasma, deleita y provoca una gran alegría.

Press Kit

Unique Properties
This case, with a gross floor area of 153,000㎡ on the southern bank of the Minjiang River in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, is a cultural complex composed of a multifunctional theatre, opera house, concert hall, art museum, film and television center, and central cultural hall.
Dimensions & Packaging
Total Area : 152601.48 square meters
Tags
Architect, Flower, Unique, Comfort, Economy
Production Technology
The center is built with Chinese traditional materials of ceramics and bamboo. Ceramics originated in China, and bamboo is the symbol of the Chinese spirit and endowment. More importantly, Fujian is one of the producing areas of ceramics and bamboo, which saves a lot of cost for the production and transportation of materials.
Design Challenge
This project is built along with the local flood control facilities by renovating and widening the floodway, and making the Liangcuo River a part of the whole architecture. It has reserved a space for future connection with the subway, filling the gap of public traffic lines in the region. The project has also opened the outdoor square, roof platform and waterborne space to the public, and integrated with the Minjiang landscape system to form a space for immersive urban cultural experience.
Research
In order to avoid any subtle invisible cracks, the louvers are subjected to rigorous manual and machine tests, and German wind tunnel tests.
Inspiration
The center is an innovative expression of Chinese traditional culture. Its design is inspired by jasmine, a world-renowned symbol of Chinese culture, as well as the city flower of Fuzhou. Five main buildings constitute five white jasmine petals, through which runs the Liangcuo River like a flower stalk. Several small petals make up a waterborne platform that goes deep into the Minjiang River. Together, they build up a magnificent Chinese picture featuring "blossoming jasmine flowers over a moonlit river".
Project Duration
The project was located in Fu Zhou, China. It was finished in August 2018.
Operation Flow
On the basis of expressing cultural innovation, this project has realized the unity of technology and art. More than 40,000 ceramic rods are used on the front facade of the outer curtain wall, while 36,000 ceramic plates are applied for the back facade. The project has hence been hailed as the largest ceramic curtain wall building in the world.
Image Credits
Yong Zhang, Marc Goodwin

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