Device of Perception Centre Cultural by Yuting Zhang

Device of Perception Centre Cultural by Yuting Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Bronze in Arquitectura Competition Category.

BronzeArquitectura· 2022

Device of Perception Centre Cultural

by Yuting Zhang

Client: Yuting Zhang

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Arquitectura Category

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The Design

About Device of Perception Centre Cultural

Device of Perception es un centre cultural a Mexico, situat entre un quartièr istoric de bassa nautor e un desvolopament comercial de nauta nautor. Lo centre s'espandís sus environ 4500 mètres quadrats e conten una sala de conferéncias, un pichon teatre, un espaci d'exposicion, de burèus, un espaci d'emmagazinatge e un cafè. Una plaça d'entrada enfonzada separa l'edifici de l'avenguda animada e servís coma extension de l'escèna interiora. Cada estatge de la torre corta es torçut d'un quart de torn, formant una galariá publica en espiral amb de vistas encastradas sus la ciutat. Se fa servir de beton armat e d'acièr autopatinable.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Device of Perception Centre Cultural a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze, una reconeissença plan prestigiosa acordada a de designs excellents que se destrian per la creativitat, l'engenh e la finessa. Los ganhaires del Bronze son d'artefactes largament abils e sorprenentament creatius que provan la vasta experiéncia, l'imaginacion e l'engenhositat de lors designers. S'espèra que Device of Perception Centre Cultural siá un objècte fòrça considerat, admirat e estimat, notablament professional e innovant. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Bronze integra las melhoras practicas de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia e es excellent per son atencion al detalh. Device of Perception Centre Cultural satisfa esplendidament los besonhs, toca los desirs, encanta los sentiments e interèssa la curiositat.

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