Unfolding around Meixi Lake, the Meixihu Culture & Arts Centre, designed by Hans Hollein & Partner, incorporates a carefully conceived mix of functions nerved generously with waterways, underground traffic roads, and boulevards. In a prime position, overlooking the waters and the ceremony island, the project will become the largest multifunctional world class culture and art centre of international standing in the Hunan province. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Our design follows in first instance the logistics of the site, the forces around, the will to integrate or to counter the urban setting. This is the rational side of it. As always and everywhere there is the other side, which has to do with emotion and feelings, this being the artistic side which shapes the volumes in a sculptural way. The layout of the combined site – commercial and cultural – is developed as an integrated sculptural composition – yet each of the two components can exist independently although they support each other.
