IberiaCenter for Contemporary Art is a re-development
project located in the 798 art district, Beijing.
The original site was composed by a group of industrial buildings, The biggest
one is around 1000 square meters area with 8 to 11 meters ceiling height.
The concept of the re-development is to convert these separated
buildings into an integrated art exhibition space while keeping the industrial
appearance as much as possible. A 50-meter-long brick wall was introduced to
the street interface in order to join the 3 old individual buildings into one
single continuing façade. The new façade, however, is not completely replacing
the old façades, rather, interacting with the old one by its shape and tectonic
concept.
The interior wall was preserved while a few new function boxes
were inserted into the lofty space. Besides the exhibition space, it has
offices, library, auditorium, café, art shop, etc.