Device of Perception 文化センター by Yuting Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
銅建築· 2022
Device of Perception 文化センター
by Yuting Zhang
Client: Yuting Zhang
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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About Device of Perception 文化センター
「知覚の装置（Device of Perception）」は、メキシコシティにおいて、低層の歴史地区と高層の商業開発地区との間に位置する文化センターである。延床面積は約4,500平方メートルで、講堂、小劇場、展示スペース、オフィス、収蔵庫、カフェを備える。地盤を掘り下げたエントランス広場は、建物を交通量の多い大通りから切り離すとともに、内部のステージを屋外へと延長する場として機能する。低層タワーの各階は4分の1回転ずつねじれ、街並みを切り取る眺望を伴うスパイラル状の公共ギャラリーを形づくる。仕上げには鉄筋コンクリートと耐候性鋼を用いている。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Device of Perception 文化センターは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Device of Perception 文化センターは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Device of Perception 文化センターは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
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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