Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco by Yuting Zhang

Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco by Yuting Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze in Igishushanyo cy'Ubwubatsi Competition Category.

BuronzeUbwubatsi· 2022

Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco

by Yuting Zhang

Client: Yuting Zhang

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze Winner in Ubwubatsi Category

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The Design

About Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco

Device of Perception ni ikigo cy'umuco kiri mu mujyi wa Mexico City, giherereye hagati y'akarere gakuze k'amateka gafite inyubako ngufi n'ahantu h'ubucuruzi hafite inyubako ndende. Iki kigo gifite ubuso bungana na metero kare 4500 kandi kirimo umwanya wo gutangamo amasomo, ikinamahanga gito, umwanya w'ibiribwa mu iserukiramuco, biro, ububiko n'ikawa. Urubuga rw'injira ruri hasi rutandukanya inyubako n'umuhanda unyerera kandi rugakora nk'agace k'ikigereranyo cy'ahantu ho hagati. Buri gorofa y'umunara mugufi izengurutswe ku gice cya kane cy'impinduka, bigatuma habaho urubuga rw'abaturage runyeganyega rufite ibyiciro byerekana isura y'umujyi. Amabuye y'ibendera akomeye (concrete) n'icyuma cyagenewe kwihanganira ibihe (weathering steel) ni byo bikoreshwa mu bwubatsi.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze

Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo by'indashyikirwa birangwa no guhanga, ubwenge n'ubushishozi. Abegukanye Buronze ni ibihangano bifite ubuhanga bwinshi kandi bihanga cyane, bishimangira uburambe, ubwenge n'ubushobozi bw'ababihanze. Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco biteganyijwe ko izaba ikintu cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifite ubunyamwuga n'udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Buronze gikoresha uburyo bwiza mu buhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga kandi kirarenze mu gutaha ku tuntu duto. Device of Perception Ikigo cy'Umuco ishimisha ibyo dukeneye, ikora ku byifuzo byacu, itwara amarangamutima yacu kandi ikurura amatsiko yacu.

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