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Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی by Yuting Zhang

Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی by Yuting Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 جایزه برنزی A' Design Award in طراحی معماری، ساختمان و سازه Competition Category.


برنزمعماری· 2022

Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی

by Yuting Zhang

Client: Yuting Zhang

جایزه برنزی A' Design Award Winner in معماری Category

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The Design

About Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی

دستگاه ادراک یک مرکز فرهنگی در مکزیکوسیتی است که میان محله‌ای تاریخی با بناهای کوتاه و یک مجموعه تجاری بلندمرتبه قرار گرفته است. این مرکز حدود ۴۵۰۰ متر مربع مساحت دارد و شامل یک سالن سخنرانی، یک تئاتر کوچک، فضای نمایشگاهی، دفاتر کاری، انبار و یک کافه است. یک میدان ورودی فرورفته، ساختمان را از خیابان پرترافیک جدا می‌کند و به‌عنوان امتداد صحنه داخلی عمل می‌کند. هر طبقه از برج کوتاه این بنا یک‌چهارم دور پیچانده شده است و گالری عمومی مارپیچی را شکل می‌دهد که چشم‌اندازهای قاب‌بندی‌شده‌ای از شهر ارائه می‌دهد. در ساخت این بنا از بتن مسلح و فولاد هوادیده استفاده شده است.

The Recognition

About the جایزه برنزی A' Design Award

Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی برنده جایزه برنزی A' Design Award است، شناختی بسیار معتبر که به طراحی‌های برجسته‌ای اعطا می‌شود که با خلاقیت، نبوغ و زیرکی متمایز می‌شوند. برندگان برنز مصنوعاتی بسیار ماهرانه و چشمگیر خلاق‌اند که تجربه گسترده، تخیل و ابتکار طراحان خود را تأیید می‌کنند. از Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی انتظار می‌رود شیئی بسیار ارجمند، ستوده و دوست‌داشتنی باشد که به‌طور چشمگیری حرفه‌ای و نوآورانه است. این طراحی برنده جایزه برنزی A' Design Award بهترین رویه‌ها را در هنر، علم، طراحی و فناوری در خود جمع می‌کند و به سبب توجه به جزئیات برجسته است. Device of Perception مرکز فرهنگی نیازها را زیبا برآورده می‌کند، به خواسته‌ها دست می‌زند، احساسات را مجذوب می‌سازد و کنجکاوی را برمی‌انگیزد.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The site is in between the low rise colonial historic quarter and the high rise commercial development, as an intersection node full of complexity in Mexico City. The cultural center is not only an exhibition space for Mexico City but could also be regarded as the device of perception. The perception is twofold in this project. One is that exterior plaza as the extension of the interior stage, the other is that a spiral path with various scenery frames as the narrative to understand the city.
Dimensions & Packaging
Approximate total area 4500 square meters, with main conference/lecture hall, small theater hall, exhibition space, offices, storage, cafe.
Tags
cultural center, gallery, theater, exhibition
Production Technology
The cultural center is constructed using reinforced concrete. Informed by “stereotomic” architecture, the board-marked concrete walls of the center are treated as a found object. Corten is another material been introduced to the project. The use of the weathering steel creates an immediate visual link between past, present, and future.
Design Challenge
The selected site is adjacent to Zarco Plaza, public plaza alongside the Church of San Judeas Tadeo, near the convent of San Hipolito, located on Reforma Avenue at Avenida Hidalgo, which is an intersection node full of complexity in Mexico City. The design challenges are how to use space to fully interprete the surrounding urban context and the rich cultural and history narratices.
Research
Explore how experimental miniature stage was used as a space in which objects, 2-­‐dimensional drawings and 3-­‐dimensional constructions of different scales could coexist in a seemingly unproblematic way, to see how the same spatial base was used to accommodate different scenarios and situations, just by moving props around, adding surfaces and changing backdrops.
Inspiration
Aldo Rossi's Project the Small Scientific Theatre from 1978 is taken as a starting point to reflect upon the relation between architecture and image, and between object/ prop and space/ stage. The theatrino models made for the project then have borrowed this primary idea from Aldo Rossi to explore how does the Zarco Plaza could be regarded as the extension of the stage of the auditorium. The definition of performers has been extended in the exploration.
Project Duration
2017 in Mexico City
Operation Flow
The sunken entrance plaza of the cultural center creates a tranquil start of the narrative, separating the cultural center from the heavy traffic La Reforma Avenue. The lower ground floor surrounding the sunken plaza houses the art storage facilities and a cafe, maximizing publicly accessible space continues from the plaza into the lobby of the building.
Each floor of the short tower is twisted a quarter turn, which creates a large spiral public gallery as the extension of the interior exhibition space. The story of the city has been told through the switch-over between the interior gallery and different compositions of historical layers from the breaking points/openings in the cube of the spiral path. Two auditoriums have been embedded in this spiral discourse, with lectures, talks, debates, conferences, and film screenings conducted in front of the urban backdrop.
Team Members
Yuting Zhang
Image Credits
Yuting Zhang

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