West Wing Art Museum, International Cultural Exchange Center, Chinese Architecture, Images
West Wing Art Museum in Langfang
Public Art Building Development in China – design by WAY Studio
29 May 2019
West Wing
Design: WAY Studio
Location: Langfang, China

WAY Studio recently completed the re-design for the West Wing of Silk Road International Cultural Exchange Center. The center is located in Langfang, He Bei, one of the new cultural hubs for northern China, and takes its name ?Silk Road? after China?s recent ?Belt and Road? initiative.

It is a mixed-use cultural complex, which contains an opera house, a theatre, a music hall in its center; a museum in its east wing; an art museum in its west wing, and commercial inserts scattered throughout. Each program has its own designated visitation route, allowing the entire complex to work together or individually.
The west wing of the cultural center houses the art museum, approximately 10,000 sqm. Within the atrium, the balconies on either side spread out like wings, connecting visitors to galleries at both ends. WAY Studio reevaluated the circulation of this space and proposed bridges to connect existing balconies across the atrium, extending the exhibition spaces outward into this central public area, blurring the boundaries between thoroughfare and galleries while visitors wander up the spiraling avenue.

Inspired by theatre design itself, we?ve extended this relationship between seeing and being seen into the pub...