▲ Yin and Yang | Exterior Rendering
Yin and Yang, 2017
Tongji University Bachelor Thesis: Exchange Program in TUM, Germany
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Instructors: Jianglong Zhang
Skills: Modeling in Rhino; Rendering in Maxwell; Editing Drawings in Photoshop
Individual Work
In two weeks, the studio visited eighteen Confucius Institutes around Germany. Based on a large amount of research, we found two major drawbacks in those conventional cultural communication institutes: the teaching space is monotonous, and the institution itself is introverted to the context. They are usually lacking public space and are difficult to be seen from outside.
This project intends to design a new typology of cultural communication and consider it as an agent to reactivate the site, a historic block in Stuttgart. By slightly shifting the existing urban grid and creating stepping open space above the ground, the new culture center improves the visual and spatial connection between the site and its context.
Getting inspiration from the traditional Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, the new Sino-German Culture Center has two major layers intertwining with each other. The under layer serves as many small teaching units with monolithic concrete structure, providing interior alleys for citizens and functional space for faculties. The upper layer is a larger open space to the public, with a visually floating round-shape wood structure. The stepping open area is the public event generator, providing space for activities such as lectures, exhibitions, and flea markets. There is a Yin Yang relationship between public and private, between wood and stone, between western culture and eastern spirits.
This project intends to design a new typology of cultural communication and consider it as an agent to reactivate the site, a historic block in Stuttgart. By slightly shifting the existing urban grid and creating stepping open space above the ground, the new culture center improves the visual and spatial connection between the site and its context.
Getting inspiration from the traditional Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, the new Sino-German Culture Center has two major layers intertwining with each other. The under layer serves as many small teaching units with monolithic concrete structure, providing interior alleys for citizens and functional space for faculties. The upper layer is a larger open space to the public, with a visually floating round-shape wood structure. The stepping open area is the public event generator, providing space for activities such as lectures, exhibitions, and flea markets. There is a Yin Yang relationship between public and private, between wood and stone, between western culture and eastern spirits.
