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  Project Title

  Hengqing Culture & Art Complex

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  SZAD/Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Yunchao Xu

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  Awarded
  
  WINNER, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Mixed-Use

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  Zhuhai, China
• Project Status
  Under development


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  SZAD/Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron
• Lead Architect(s)
  Yunchao Xu

We won the competition for the new mixed-use Civic Center in Hengqin next to Macao, which is going to be built in this year. The site is limited between crowded housing area and an open green park. Instead of putting nine programs into a solid building, we adopt a strategy to create a “void” for the high-density urban context, while integrating varies of programs into one complex and interweaving energetic lives together. The main public space on the lower level is composed by three giant arch caves coated by wood and bamboo panels, to create a transparent and open living room for urban life.