Depicting space vertically from near to far, this community cultural center is similar to an Eastern landscape painting. It is both building and landscape - both mountain and water. "Yingshan-Ruoshui in Western Sichuan" integrates the mountains and water of natural landscapes into architectural elements, creating a unique architectural experience.
In the design, the famous terraces of Sichuan are used for the architectural and landscape vocabulary. Through stairs, the platform and scene create high and low entrances from bottom to top, enabling an integrated linkage between the building and landscape. From west to east and low to high, a path to stroll through the river valley landscape is created that extends the high waterscape and faces the urban streetscape, enabling the experience of a spatial transition from nature to city. The fusion between transparent high-rise space and waterscape serves as both the beginning and end of the journey. Slowly strolling along the water trail is a meditative ritual from city to nature and back.
The design attempts to merge the boundaries between architecture and nature. In the transparent glass structure, there is a flowing element that undulates like a mountain and moves like a stream. Like an inverted mountain view, a scene of "mountains in the water" is formed in the reflection of the water. In the dialogue between mountain and water, it depicts the scene of a communion of architecture in nature and nature in architecture.
Team:
Architect: Yuan Architects
Collaborators: WenYuan Peng / Ching Lu / TzuHao Liao / YiTing Chiu / MingHsiu Lee / YiSheng Lin
