Baoding/Hebei, China
Baoding is located on the edge of the Xiong’an New District, where is becoming a new central area for economic and industrial development in North China.
However, the reality contradicting the government’s ambition is that the construction of new industrial parks means that the urbanization of suburban land needs to retain and attract more talents and enterprises. Especially in the initial stage of all emerging industrial parks, it is very difficult to attract investment and promote products to the market.
The Future Promotion Center designed by Yunchao Xu of SZAD/Atelier Apeiron was recently awarded with a 2020 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The architects were commissioned to design an exhibition center for a high-tech park, with flexible modular units that can accommodate the multi-uses in the future.
The Future Promotion Center layouts are rectangular in the perimeter and round in the center to maximize the use of interior space and integrate public and private domain in an intricate way.
The first and second levels provide open exhibition space for different uses.
Another exhibition space with 360-degree ring-shaped, lifting peacefully 9 meters above ground, provides maximum flexibility for a wide range of product exhibitions, as well as a panoramic viewing platform for tourists and the locals.
As the first building ever built in the high-tech park, the Future Exhibition Center expresses unique form to the investors and users with a welcoming gesture.
The lifting open exhibition space, the round corners, and the shiny metal skin all harmonizing with its surrounding urban context and making itself an outstanding sculpture within the campus.
As night falls, a dynamic light show is unfolding on its 8 m floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, marking the pavilion not only an exhibiting functional venue but also an unexpectedly important piece itself in the high-tech park.
Project: Future Promotion Center of High-Tech Park
Architects: SZAD/Atelier Apeiron/Yunchao Xu
Client: Baoding Wangsheng Investment Co., Ltd.
General Contractor: Baoding Wangsheng Investment Co., Ltd.
Photographer: Shengliang Su
