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Yiwu Cultural Square

Yiwu Cultural Square
South West Bird View. Image © Qiang Zhao

Yiwu Cultural Square

UAD

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Danshen Dong

CONTRACTOR
Zhejiang Xiao Jiutian Construction Engineering Company

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Jin Shen, Lei Ding, Kanyuan Bao, Wenhao Ni, Ke Cheng, Shaohua Li, Gang Chen, Zhenfen Jin

DESIGN TEAM
Yu Chen, Wenxiao Qiu, Mao’en Zheng, Jiachen Zhang

MANUFACTURERS
Alucobond, Chunshui Glass, Nanya Aluminum

LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Zichuang Cui

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Wentong Sun, Yongjie Zhou

MEP CONSULTANT
Yi Yang, Ji Chen, Guoxing Zheng, Xiaodong Ren, Wenzheng Yang, Dengfeng Sun, Huoming Fang, Zhoujie Chen, Chunting Shao, Guozhong Yang, Hua Lin, Xiangqun Li

PHOTOGRAPHS
Qiang Zhao

AREA
82360 M²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Jinhua, China

CATEGORY
Cultural Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

Yiwu is famous for small commodities. Small and medium-sized enterprises are densely concentrated in this place where the private economy is highly developed.

Yiwu Cultural Square
Roof Top Patio. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
View From Stairs to Stages. Image © Qiang Zhao

In terms of urban construction, this means that the city is filled with a large number of homogenized and small-scale buildings featuring high density.

Local citizens have a desire for iconic city architecture and open places for public activities.

After being included in the central city planning of Zhejiang province, Yiwu has begun to take firm steps toward becoming an international metropolis and hoped to take constructing Yiwu Cultural Center as an opportunity to declare to the public its cultural confidence featuring openness to the international society and the future.

Yiwu Cultural Square
View From Sunken Plaza. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Theater Front Gate Details. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Interior Stairs and Lightings. Image © Qiang Zhao

Yiwu Cultural Square is a large-scale cultural complex combining various functions of culture and entertainment, education and training, sports and fitness, etc.

Its design, which is minimalist with huge building volume, differs from that of ordinary buildings in the city.

Yiwu Cultural Square
Public Area For Citizen. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Citizen Stage. Image © Qiang Zhao

Its center is not a grand indoor hall, but a three-dimensional courtyard where a sunken square is linked with a roof garden through ramps and big steps.

The space is organized with circulation and transforms step by step, and the landscape presented to people can be different as they walk around this place. Such a design technique learns from the space organization of traditional Chinese garden and builds on it.

Yiwu Cultural Square
View From Stage to Seats. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Youth Center 1F Entrance. Image © Qiang Zhao

At the main entrance, the huge roof is like the clouds in the sky, and the huge gray space under the entrance is derived from the traditional public space model from Jiangnan regions, such as stage, ancestral hall, etc. This meets the needs of public cultural activities of Jiangnan regions.

The design of combining the sunken square and the audience area is suitable for organizing public cultural activities with Chinese characteristics. When people walk across the long and big steps and reach the roof top which is open and wide, they are able to see the beautiful views from the distance: Yiwu River, Diaoyu Rock, and Lion Mountain.

Yiwu Cultural Square
Architecture Street View. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Bird View Night River Side. Image © Qiang Zhao

The minimalist facade along the river can change into a huge screen after nightfall, and this changing screen can be even more glamorous with the gleaming reflection of Yiwu River, becoming stunning scenery of the city.


Yiwu Cultural Square
View From Sunken Plaza. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Facade Detail Along Riverside. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Metal Panel glittering. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Main Entrance Lighting Effect. Image © Qiang Zhao
Yiwu Cultural Square
Facade Along River. Image © Qiang Zhao


Yiwu Cultural Square
South West Elevation
Yiwu Cultural Square
North West Section
Yiwu Cultural Square
Courtyard Section
Yiwu Cultural Square
Theater Section


Yiwu Cultural Square
Masterplan

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