Liangshan national culture and art center

Project Name: Liangshan national culture and art center
Location: Liangshan, Sichuan, China
Competition: 2005, Contract Awarded
Project leaders: Cui Kai, He Yongmei
Staff (design): Zhang Nan, Li Bin
Staff (execution):  Li Bin, Lin Lei, Lin Zhuo
Partner Practice: Cui Kai Studio
Construction Period: 2005—2007
Area: 25684.2 m²

Occupying the east side of Torch Square in Liangshan National Cultural Art Park, this project is consisted of a great theater, a cinema, a multifunctional hall, nationality exhibition halls and a commercial street. The two-story building grow from a 1/3 circled plan. The roof and facades stepping up with the slope of bleachers allow the building seemingly emerged from the rising mountains.The concepts of design, which root in the physical environment and cultural background of Liangshan, illustrate traditional culture of local Yi nation by modern methods. To contrast with those urban buildings, the land building is interrupted, overlaid, even diminished to emphasis dominance of nature. Covered by landscape, acting as bleachers of the square, the building fades itself be an organ of the park and its environments.