Xiangshui Culture and Art Center, Jiangsu Building Design, China, Chinese Architecture Photos
Xiangshui Culture and Art Center in Yancheng Jiangsu
17 Oct 2022
Design: ATAH
Location: Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China

Photos by Yilong Zhao
Xiangshui Culture and Art Center, China
The city where the Xiangshui Culture and Art Center project is located is at the northernmost end of the delta city cluster, resting on the southern side of the Guan River basin. Compared with countless small cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, this county, which is named “Xiangshui” because of the roar of the falling water for tens of miles through the Guan River, is no different. In the era of speeding up from boiling salt fishing development to port industrial development, the small town life atmosphere is full of slow and peaceful.
As a complement to the serious lack of existing support in the city, the local government merged the construction targets of several culture-related departments and unified the construction and management into a comprehensive art center. In early 2016, ATAH, led by architect Guang Xu, win the design rights for this 40,000m2 cultural public building through an invited competition.

One of the fundamental design issues was: how to avoid duplicating another bureaucratic facility image, but how to provide the spatial texture of the small town with appropriate scale and authenticity, and create individual and diverse memories of places for specific user...