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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre

ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre 

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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ARCHITECTS
Atelier Fcjz

CLIENT
Guangdong Vipshop Philanthropic Foundation

LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Gvl Group

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS
Yung Ho Chang, Lijia Lu

INTERIOR & PERMANENT EXHIBITION DESIGN
Lu+architects, Xl Studio, Cheng Studio, Beijing Fangluo Studio

LIGHTING DESIGN
Toryo International Lighting Design Center

COLLABORATION
Architectural Design & Research Institute Of Scut

PROJECT TEAM
Cheng Yishi, Liang Xiaoning, Ye Dongqing

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fangfang Tian

DESIGN PERIOD
2021

BUILDING HEIGHT
12 M

SITE AREA
7217 M2

AREA
8602 M²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Guangzhou, China

CATEGORY
Cultural Center

ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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Text description provided by architect.

The 600-year-old ancient village of Langtou is located in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou. As a well-known “accomplished scholars village,” Langtou has many well-preserved old architectural spaces, such as academies of classical learning, ancestral temples, vernacular houses, streets, and alleys,.

ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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The word "lang" originally meant the marshland next to the river, and its meaning also extends to lakes or ponds.

The ancient village is surrounded by numerous ponds: lotus ponds, fish ponds, and Feng Shui ponds; when the breeze stirs the lotus leaves, it makes a beautiful scenery of Lingnan (south of the Five Mountains) water landscape. ChunYangTai, which we designed, is situated in a lotus pond outside the ancient village.

ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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Responding to the historical scale - Establishing connections with the scale and layout of the ancient village, the complex program – exhibition spaces, library, theater, research studios, and café – are dispersed into ten individual small building units.

Building units are connected by “towers” with curvilinear brick walls and form alleys and courtyards of intimate sizes in between.

ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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Merging into the landscape - We have placed nearly 30 groups of planted water ponds on the roofs of buildings; the lush aquatic plants, primarily waterlilies, not only form a natural landscape but also reduce the energy consumption of the buildings.

The roof ponds, connected by elevated walkways and the ponds, both designed and natural, in the sunken courtyards and the surrounding areas, create a "multi-level lotus pond system" that blends into the environment.

ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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Inheriting the local culture - Local red tiles and traditional grey bricks are chosen as the primary building materials, together with exposed concrete, to create a local cultural facility rooted in Langtou tradition.

As a contemporary interpretation of traditional Lingnan architectural elements such as "Dragon boat ridge" and "Moonbeam", the crescent windows bring subtle and soft lighting into the interior spaces and serve as an arc-shaped frame for observing the surroundings. It has become the iconic architectural symbol of ChunYangTai.

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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre
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