IntroWe were deeply shocked the first time when we met the original building. The abandoned 3-storey archaized building stands quietly in the middle of busy urban road/ commercial space in the north and lively Dawang temple/ public plaza along the canal in the south, cutting off any connection in between. The interior was dominated by rough concrete structure and walls added from different time, which block most of the natural light, so the interior was mainly hidden in darkness. There are a series of courtyards in the 2nd and 3rd floor?surprisingly bringing some light in to create some dramatic moments, which is the unexpected highlights of the building.
The central axis. Image © UNITU

Architects: PROJECT

Location: Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

Lead Architects: Minjie Liu, Wenhan Li, Ke Chang

Design Team: Hao zhang, Jianwei Zhao, Wangming Lin, Pan'ao Feng (resident architect), Qin Yang (resident architect), Jiayi Li (resident architect), Xiaojun Zhu, Genying Guo

Area: 8800.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: UNITU

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