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AYDC Public Art Center / Atelier XI

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

In 2022, the architect was invited to design a comprehensive public art complex at the AYDC in Guiyang. AYDC (A Yun Duo Cang), derived from the Yi language of Guizhou, means "our land of dreams." It is a culture-driven experimental hub that integrates community, innovation, and nature. Curated to promote creative industries and community expression, this branded district is inspired by the spiritual essence of Guizhou's mountainous landscape. Here, people and ideas can grow freely within nature. The originally planned singular building was disaggregated into a constellation of public art pavilions across the landscape. These spaces, while embedded in nature, remain distinct yet connected, offering a network of flexible and diverse platforms where the local art community can independently gather and spontaneously create.

Qiaochengbei Park Visitor Center / Atelier XI

Andreas Luco — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Qiaochengbei Park Visitor Center is situated on a hillside covered with pristine forest, surrounded by high-density urban development in the central area of Shenzhen.

The Qinghuayuan Intergenerational Community Center Renovation / ATELIER XI

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Qinghuayuan Community Center is located in the Qibin District, Hebi, Henan Province. The densely inhabited residential community has a permanent population of 12,000 people, with elderlies and children comprising a considerable proportion, accounting for over one-third of the community.

CloudLand Tourist Service Center / ATELIER XI

Collin Chen — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The CloudLand Tourist Service Center is located in Cloud Garden, a community park in the Science and Technology District in Nanshan, Shenzhen. Adjacent to the surrounding high-rise office buildings, CloudLand extends itself horizontally into a linear set of open spaces that provide various leisure services for visitors and locals. In the beginning, the architect was invited to design a pavilion for visitors based on the new landscape planning of the park. Due to the tight project schedule, the steel-structure framework was used to shorten the on-site construction procedure. As a result, the project was opened to the public eight months after the initial commission.

The Library in Ice-Chrysanthemum Field / ATELIER XI

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Library is situated on a vast ice-chrysanthemum plantation at the foot of Yuntai Mountain. The architect was invited to design a multifunctional building for community use. It accommodates ice-chrysanthemum tea tasting, book reading, small-scale musical performances, workshops for agricultural education, and storage for farming tools.

Serpentine Bookhouse / ATELIER XI

Collin Chen — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000

The Serpentine Bookhouse is located amidst the greenery of trees along the Dasha River Ecological Corridor. To its west, the 13-kilometer scenic pathway of the Ecological Corridor runs continuously, and the north side is close to a children's park with enjoyable sand pits attracting many family visitors, while the east side is surrounded by dense residential communities. The newly added public building includes a children's reading room of 300 square meters and a public restroom open to park visitors 24/7, serving local residents and visitors starting in the fall of 2022.

Renovation of Shenzhen Pingshan Sculptural Art & Creative Park / Atelier XI

Collin Chen — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Shenzhen Pingshan Sculptural Art & Creative Park is located in an old industrial district with abandoned factories at the foot of Maluan Mountain, Pingshan District, Shenzhen. Covering an area of 30,000 square meters, this transforming culture park has become the new home for a number of creative studios and artists specializing in especially sculpture, painting, and calligraphy since the 2010s.

Miniature Series II: Library in Ruins / ATELIER XI

Yu Xin Li — Wed, 26 May 2021 22:00:00 +0000

In the beginning, the architect received the original commission to design a 300-square-meter public building for facilitating the county’s culture and art education in Xiuwu, Henan. However, considering the vast serving area (630-square-kilometer county area) and the difficulty of traveling between scattered villages, the architect came up with a proposal to divide one building into a series of miniature facilities in different locations so as to better serve local communities. These cast-in-place concrete miniatures are interpreted into a series of tree-shaped spaces with tentacles reaching out for the sky, bathing in light and shadow. Their locations vary from fields, woods, to mountaintops, and their forms differ as well: while one grows out from the ruined walls in an abandoned village, another embodies a floating theater on the water. Following the first completed "Peach Hut", the second episode of the miniature series, "Library in Ruins", is constructed alongside the remnant of an adobe house in Sunyao Old Village which is 20 kilometers away from the Peach Hut.

Peach Hut Community Center / ATELIER XI

María Francisca González — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Folded TIME-LIGHT-LINE Installation / ATELIER XI

Collin Chen — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Three months before the exhibition opening, the architects received an urgent commission from the curators to transform the abandoned manufactory into an exhibition venue. And the subject of the exhibition is said to outline a chronological narrative on the urban development of the local area where the factory locates.