Pudong Adolescent Activity Center and Civic Art Center
Pudong Adolescent Activity Center and Civic Art Center
Scenic Architecture Office
ARCHITECTS
Scenic Architecture Office
CLIENT
Shanghai Pudong New District Education Bureau
BUDGET ESTIMATE
Liyi Li
OPERATOR
Pudong Adolescent Activity Center, Pudong Civic Art Center
PROJECT SUPERVISOR
Shanghai Jianke Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd
LOCAL DESIGN INSTITUTE
Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co. Ltd
WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE DESIGN
Bolin You, Junjun Geng, Chenguang Shan, Wenhua Du, Jinyue Shi, Fu Sun, Qinglong Chang
HVAC DESIGN
Weichang Zhu, Zhenzhong Tang, Weilin Zhang, Yaowei Ye, Jin Zhou, Yi Liu
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT OF THE BRIDGE
Zhun Zhang
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Shanghai Construction No.7 (Group) Co., Ltd
BIM
Dongsheng Zhang, Jian Liu, Daiwei Chen, Huanrui Zhang, Qi Zhao, Guan Tan, Zhihua Ding, Wenhua Cha, Zihao Lu
LANDSCAPE DESIGN TEAM
Hongtai Li, Yirong Shen, Jirong Gu, Jing Zhu
CURTAIN WALL DETAILED DESIGN
Zheng Wei, Bo Song, Hai Lin, Pan Wu
ENERGY SAVING DESIGN
Chengyu Tang
ELECTRICAL DESIGN TEAM
Yifeng Zhang, Chengli Zhou, Yicong Zhu, Changhui Xu
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Xi Chen, Jianghao Liang, Wei Li, Dan Sang, Jiakai Xi, Cong Fu
GREEN BUILDING DESIGN CONSULTANTS
Kai Cheng, Tiehui Guo, Yong Ling
INTERNS
Tao Xie, Yunni Gan, Chengjun Sha, Chenhui Ye, Wenqian Weng, Xiaoyue Song, Haopeng Sun
INTERIOR DESIGN TEAM
Meng Jiang, Jie Du, Junyuan Wang, Xiaosheng Lin
INTERIOR DRAWING
Jinpeng Ji, Suqi Bian
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE PHASE
Meng Jiang, Jie Du, Junyuan Wang, Xiaosheng Lin, Xianmei Hu
CONCEPTUAL AND SCHEMATIC DESIGN PHASE
Pablo Gonzalez Riera, Shan Liang, Jie Du, Tai Sheng, Yu Xi, Yan’an Shi, Yan Zhou, Ziwei Shen
PIC
Xiaofeng Zhu, Xinjia Zhuang( Scenic Architecture Office); Qun Zeng, Yue Kang(Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co. Ltd)
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Shanghai Fangxiang Landscape Design Co., Ltd.
FOUNDATION PIT DESIGN
Wenhui Jiang
GEO ENGINEERING
Geo-engineering Investigation Institute of Jiangsu Province
CONSTRUCTION AGENCY
Shanghai Pudong Engineering Construction Management Co., Ltd
CURTAIN WALL DESIGN
Ruifeng Ma, Taixi Zhu, Zhifeng Li
ARCHITECTURAL
Yanwen Qiu, Bin He, Shan Wang, Yiwei Liu, Yang Yang, Yongxin Pei, Lei Chen
LOCATION
Pudong, China
CATEGORY
Cultural Architecture, Manuals & Guides
The Pudong Culture Community, planned as a culture hub in Shanghai, will become a new destination for cultural activities in Pudong New District.
Located in the middle block of the Culture Community, the site of the Youth and Children’s Center and the Public Culture and Art Center is divided by a river into a larger eastern part and a smaller western part.
At the northern block of the Culture Community stands the existing Pudong Library; the Pudong Planning Museum and City Art Center (designed by David Chipperfield Architects) will be built in the southern block.
These three blocks will not only be connected below ground but also be integrated into a common landscape containing other public facilities, such as metro plazas and reading gardens.
To respond to both the outer urban space and the inner functional needs of the project, we designed a multistoried space articulated through interactive platforms.
“Boxes” in different scales are scattered on these platforms and host the various operations—auditoriums, galleries, activity rooms, lobbies, and café and canteen, among others.
The platforms compose the two interlocked courtyard structures.
The auditorium (with a seating capacity of 1,000) and the Art Center sit on the west ring connected to the metro plaza, while the Children’s Center is located at the east ring, which is surrounded by open greenery.
By overlapping and linking with each other, the platforms stimulate interactions across the different areas.
The garden platform, which spans across the river links two lobbies on either side and is the spine of public flow.
With various indoor and outdoor spaces on the platforms on the second to the fourth floor, the design frees up ground space, thereby creating an open zone between the library and the Pudong Planning Museum.
This forms a pedestrian hub for the entire cultural community.
The Pudong Culture Community responds to the environment and function with a two-pronged concept:
the large holistic platforms reciprocate the urban scale, while the “scattered boxes” engage the more intimate scale of individual users.
The Center combines these two scales to not only provide enjoyable spaces for the daily use of the building but also to convene with the environment in presenting a dynamic public stage for urban life.
