Museum | Opera House | Library | Changsha | China | Mad

Changhsa Culture Park is located at the end point of the waterfront of Changsha City. The challenge of this project was to create a new cultural centre for the city, which can maintain the link between the waterfront and the urban context behind it.
Changsha Culture Park is conceived as a man-made, floating platform connecting the three cultural facilities of the site – music hall, museum and library – into one fluid, integrated object. More than just a landmark cultural building, the park is designed as an open public space that can be freely accessed by the local population.

The landscape is designed as an urban topography. Underneath the platform at ground level is a semi-indoor, semi-outdoor space, illuminated by skylights above. The second level, the platform itself, is a city scale roof space where the public can roam freely. These two levels permit people to enjoy a full range of cultural activities, formal and informal, at all times under all weather conditions. Exhibitions, open gatherings, mass concerts and games are all possible. .......more