Tianfu One Exhibition Gallery, Chinese Commercial Interior, Architecture Images
Tianfu One Exhibition Gallery in Chengdu
Public Cultural Building Development in China ? design by LWK + PARTNERS Architects
12 Nov 2019
Tianfu One Exhibition Gallery in Chengdu
Architects: LWK + PARTNERS
Location: Chengdu, China

Comfortably perched at the eastern end of a green corridor in Chengdu?s Tianfu New District, TIANFU ONE Exhibition Gallery enjoys panoramic views of the Luxihe wetland park just across the road. LWK + PARTNERS leveraged its proximity to both urban life and natural greenery to craft an observation deck culminating at the end of the city?s main artery.

The project design is guided by a discreet respect for the local landscape, producing a circulation plan that is aligned with the city?s axis, landmarks and vegetation pattern. Such a treatment by LWK + PARTNERS not only promotes the project?s function as a public facility, but transformed a tricky height difference of the site into an architectural feature.
As hilly terrain is uncommon in Chengdu, LWK + PARTNERS took effort to highlight and make the most of the slope by having the building double as an elevated viewpoint. Connection with the city starts all the way from the urban green corridor to its rooftop observation deck that looks upon the city and park.

A glazed exhibition hall reveals beneath the deck, forming the crux of the project that is penetrated by natural light and elevated by hefty pillars to comm...