Strait Culture Centre d'art by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen

Platine Architecture · 2021

Strait Culture Centre d'art

by Zong Wu Xu and Pekka Salminen

A' Design Award de Platine 2021 in Architecture
CLIENT: PES-Architects Ltd & CHINA CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING DESIGN GROUP CO.,LTD.
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About Strait Culture Centre d'art

Le Strait Culture and Art Center est un complexe culturel situé sur la rive sud du fleuve Minjiang, à Fuzhou, en Chine. Le centre abrite un théâtre polyvalent, un opéra, une salle de concert, un musée d'art, un centre du cinéma et de la télévision ainsi qu'un hall culturel central. La conception s'inspire du jasmin, fleur emblématique de Fuzhou. Cinq bâtiments principaux forment cinq pétales blancs, entre lesquels la rivière Liangcuo s'écoule telle une tige. La céramique et le bambou, tous deux produits dans le Fujian, sont employés pour les façades et les finitions. La place extérieure, la plateforme en toiture et les espaces sur l'eau sont ouverts au public.

About the A' Design Award de Platine

Strait Culture Centre d'art est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Platine, une reconnaissance extrêmement prestigieuse décernée à des designs véritablement exceptionnels, élégants et magnifiques. Les lauréats Platine sont des merveilles de création, des témoignages des limites de la créativité intellectuelle, et démontrent le professionnalisme inégalé et le génie de leurs concepteurs. Ces designs sont censés être les œuvres les plus renommées, qui définissent l'esthétique d'une époque, contribuent au bien-être de la société et repoussent les limites de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie. Strait Culture Centre d'art affiche un niveau d'excellence transcendant et rend sans équivoque le monde meilleur grâce à ses caractéristiques avantageuses et précieuses. Strait Culture Centre d'art est une œuvre lauréate de l'A' Design Award de Platine qui éveille les désirs, inspire, enthousiasme, ravit et fait naître une grande joie.

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