China’s Upcoming Xinxiang Tourism Center Looks Like Stacked Ice Cubes
Architecture always serves a purpose, whether utilitarian or otherwise. Whether it’s to evoke a sense of community engagement and unity, to act as a cultural or creative hub, or simply to stand out from the crowd, there are a number of ways in which architecture makes a statement that stretches outside the confines of its design. Yes, there are often larger cultural, artistic, and even political interpretations of “simple” buildings that are usually anything but simple.
But this is no ordinary building. The forward-thinking architects aim to create a shifting, translucent, and almost magical space befitting the building’s overall purpose to draw visitors to the new tourist district. Composed of nine blocks that are reminiscent of gigantic ice cubes, some of which overlap and offset each other, the structure filters and refracts light as if it’s moving and changing before your very eyes.
What appears on the surface as opacity is, in fact, an overlapping facade of ice crystals that create depth and luminosity both in and outside the structures. In a recent statement, the architects described the center as “sculpture out of scale, a pure and monumental volume.” And truly, this description appears to be eerily accurate, as the structure certainly resembles a piece of modern art, and its stacked blocks, though seemingly random, are all placed quite intentionally.
The building itself is a chameleon of sorts. Meant to change and shift ...
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