White Crane Lake Visitor Center

PrizeShortlist in Build (architecture)
CompanyArchperience (Beijing) Design
ArtistJinang Yang
CategoryProfessional
Design TeamChuanhui Huang, Zhendong Wang, Huijuan Wang, Zheng Zhang
ClientJiangxi Guogui Culture & Tourism Development Co
CreditJianghe Zeng

The architect took on the project with the intent of applying an approach informed by a kind of poetic imagination, ultimately arriving at the concept of "bamboo clouds on the water", allowing the new building to gently integrate with the surrounding mountains and forest, seamlessly taking its place among the natural elements of the area. In order to reduce its intervention on the environment, the volume of the building adopts a decentralized layout, so that its overall form is divided into a series of connected volumes which effectively reduces its perceived visual scale.