Wulanchabu City Exhibition Center and Theatre

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Facts

Year: 2012

Typology: Masterplan, Cultural, Experience

City: Wulanchabu

Country: China

Client: Wulanchabu Municipality

Floor area: 2 x 25,000 m²

Wulanchabu City Park
The Wulanchabu competition design is comprised of three elements: a grand theater, an exhibition center and a large-scale park landscape in which the two buildings are situated, among others. The project is located in the periphery of Wulanchabu, a rapidly developing city in Inner-Mongolia, China.

Pebbles in the Pond
We think of the landscape as ripples in the surface of the earth, gentle hills rising to a height of 5m plus, valleys with ponds as low as 5m under the ground level. The ripples in the landscape are caused by the entrances to the park and the buildings and that are placed along the periphery of the site. Elegant wooden bridges cross the valleys, intriguing three-dimensional follies, inspired by Chinese calligraphy, function as orientation points, at the both ends of the park, and at strategic places inside the park. The park design combines the free flow with the formal, such that the people can chose to spend their free time and relax, or walk targeted from one building to the other, from one side of the park to the other.

Wulanchabu City Exibition Centre
The spatial lay-out of the Wulanchabu City Exhibition Centre is based on three stacked layers: the history [Archive] on the ground floor, the present [City Model] on the first and second floor, the future [Digital City Experience] on the third and fourth floor, functioning as a challenging attraction point high up in the building.

Wulanchabu Theater
The spatial lay-out of the Wulanchabu City Theater [WCT] contains three major programs: the 1400 seat Theater, the 400 seat Music Hall and the 3 Cinemas, all located on the ground floor level. Parking, storage and installations are located in the basement, while there are additional installations are located in the basement, while there are additional installations under the curved roofs. The construction of the WCT is inspired by the traditional Mongolian yurts.