This project is a “cross-strait” cultural center located in FuZhou, China. Its purpose is to commemorate the connection between China and Taiwan, which is an absurd concept as
Cultural Center
This project is a “cross-strait” cultural center located in FuZhou,
China. Its purpose is to commemorate the connection between China and
Taiwan, which is an absurd concept as it is more of a political move to
assert China’s undemocratic and aggressive claim of Taiwan as a
territory of China. Architecturally it is full of pathetic metaphors
that neither makes sense nor address issues of the local culture it
claims to promote .
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The project is divided into two buildings, each metaphorically
representing a “tree” of Chinese culture, with three levels or
articulation. The first is the Roots that define the ground plane,
landscapes and lower levels of the building, which illustrate the
Chinese culture emerges from the earth of china.
The coordinated movement of the two root systems – each symbolizing
cultural versus commercial – on the site then becomes one network
unifying the site into a park that welcomes all points of circulation.
The second is the branches that grow from the roots to wrap the
“cultural fruit” that float above the roots and connect the different
components to make them a unified whole. This metaphorically unifying
skin uses the visual effect of porous network of branches to define and
articulate the skin of the building in two ways – as a perforated façade
system and a translucent lightweight tensile roof system that glows
internally.
The last part is the “fruits/seeds/tree-houses” that vary in program.
Each in the project is positioned in a radical arrangement pointing out
of the tree towards various destinations of cultural significance to
Chinese heritage. The metaphor is a seed in the earth that grows to
become the fruit, which is the cultural by products of the culture
itself – opera, film, music, art, commerce, food.
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