Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆 by Xiaoxia Wang - gad

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆 by Xiaoxia Wang - gad is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铂金奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

铂金建筑· 2022

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆

by Xiaoxia Wang - gad

Client: Gad

A' Design Award 铂金奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆

西安曲江艺术中心是一座位于中国西安曲江新区的展览馆。建筑仿佛悬浮于绿意盎然的坡地之上，在城市道路旁形成清晰的视觉标识。双层全玻璃幕墙模糊了室内空间与周边公园之间的边界。悬吊结构承托起三层展览空间，吊柱直径缩减至200毫米，使空间几乎实现无柱化。一条穿越城市绿带的舒缓步道引导访客进入场地。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铂金奖

Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆是 A' Design Award 铂金奖得主，这是授予真正卓越、优雅和宏伟设计的极具声望的认可。铂金奖得主是创造的奇迹，是智力创造力极限的见证，展现出其设计师无与伦比的专业精神和天才。这些设计被期待成为定义一个时代的美学、造福社会、并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术边界的最负盛名的作品。Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆展现出超凡脱俗的卓越水准，以其有益而宝贵的特质毫无疑问地让世界变得更美好。Xi'an Qujiang Art Center 展览馆是一件赢得 A' Design Award 铂金奖的作品，它唤起欲望，启发人心，令人愉悦，并迸发出巨大的喜悦。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The project is located in Yanta District, Xi’an, with a mature surrounding traffic system including elevated roads, subways and highways, which makes it quite convenient and able to reach the main city within an hour. Being close to Qujiang Pool and Tang Paradise, the site is surrounded by multiple urban parks and boasts rich green land resources.
Dimensions & Packaging: The cellular stone breaks the area limit of natural stone with a size of 1.2m wide x 2.2m high. It also can be used on the dropping ceiling which ensures the integrity of the entry space and renders a unusual drop-off experience.
Cellular aluminum sheet’s lightness, high intensity and high flatness guarantee the flatness of the large aluminum curtain wall. Meanwhile the reflections of the surroundings further strengthens the sense of floating.
Tags: Floating Horizon, Suspension Structure
Production Technology: Cellular aluminum sheet's lightness, high intensity and high flatness guarantee the flatness of the large aluminum curtain wall. Meanwhile the reflections of the surroundings further strengthens the sense of floating.
Design Challenge: The exhibition hall space is divided into three layers. The whole structure is a suspension structure. Under the suspension structure, the stress mode of the column is changed from bearing pressure to bearing tension, and the performance of the steel is brought into play. The diameter of the suspension column is reduced to 200 mm to achieve the " almost no column" effect in the indoor space. Hence the freedom of the exhibition space can be fully released, and the sight line can be connected with the outside almost unobstructed, blurring the inner and outer boundaries.
Research: The process of arriving at the site is not a straightforward one, but a process of falling, turning, surprise and suddenly opening up, which seems to coincide with human's emotional experience. The whole building is anchored on the site. The site and the building are integrated with the bottom hidden in the green slope.
Inspiration: How to deal with the relationship between the architecture and the site becomes the starting point of the initial design. The designer further contemplates the space core by contemplating on the relationship between architecture and nature, the way of interaction and the boundless sense of experience. Double-layer full glass curtain walls allow the building to interact with the nature in the form of fuzzy boundary.
Project Duration: The project started in 2018 in Rongchuang Qujiangyin, Qujiang New District, Xi'an, China and finished in 2019.
Operation Flow: Facing the height difference between the site and the 10 meter green belt of the road, how shall people reach the site? The landscape design gives a poetic answer. The gentle slope of the urban green belt is built into a silk belt trail, leading the walk in. The walk experience becomes a way of dialogue with the site, and also a more close interaction between the site and the city.

The landscape design and space streamline of the drop-off area overlap with each other. The designer is not eager to let people arrive at the exhibition hall, but allows them to go straight through the landscape garden on the first floor. Walking through the landscape area and after taking the 88 second straight ladder, people will see the floating exhibition hall with four transparent walls at the end of the stairs. When looking back from the exhibition hall, the landscape on the roof of the podium and the botanical garden on the east side of the site form a continuous dialogue relationship. The landscape and architectural sequence constitute the designer's narrative of the space, which naturally triggers the emotion and experience at that moment.
Team Members: Project Director: Xiaoxia Wang
Project Creative: Xiaoxia Wang
Shouqing Wu
Other Team Members: Yuanyuan Fu
Zhehua Ni
Structure: Xiangming Qi
Qi Zhu
Xiaodong Shen
Water Supply and Drainage: Ting Hu
HVAC: Mingxing Ji
Electrical: Tao Jiang
Interior: CCD
Landscape: T.R.O.P
Structure technique: suspension structure
Building materials: glass curtain wall
honeycomb stone
anodized aluminum plate
Photographer: Shiromio Studio
CCD
Shouqing Wu
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Main Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #2: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #3: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #4: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.
Image #5: Photographer Shiromio Studio, Optional Image, 2019.11.09.