The predecessor of this project is five factory buildings built in 1960s and 1990s. The building is located in the core of the total park, and the transformed function is the public design art center. The main purpose is exhibition hall, which is used to hold all kinds of art and design exhibitions. The original building is a series of five sloping roof buildings, three of which were built in the 1960s, with the original function of warehouse; the structural form is brick concrete structure, wood truss, red tile roof, and the height of roof ridge is 7 meters; in the 1990s, the building group was transformed into a building materials market, and in the middle open space of the three buildings, two additional plants were built, and the new brick columns were pasted with the pillars of the old warehouse, with the roof Steel truss structure, asbestos tile roof, ridge height of 9 meters. The height difference between adjacent buildings is the skylight of new buildings.
The location of the Flower Pavilion is located on the central axis of the original building, and the entrance of the new ADC art design center building should be from the square of the Flower Pavilion, so the entrance must be from a narrow horizontal axis column spacing; the solution of UAO is to cut an optical axis in the middle of the five row buildings: open the middle two to three span (8-12m) roof, remove the tile roof, and retain the wood truss（ Or steel truss). After the roof is opened, the light enters into the interior of the building, forming a sequence space naturally; this sequence space is set as the central axis art Avenue similar to Raphael’s famous painting “Athens College”, which is the main traffic space, connecting the exhibition halls on both sides, forming a classic Exhibition Building “fish bone” like plane layout.
The exhibition hall partition walls on both sides of the central axis are made of red bricks. The partial roof of the central axis is opened to form an open atrium; while the steel or wood truss structure at the top is reserved, and the light and shadow of the truss will be projected on the walls on both sides of the main axis during the day.
The design principle of the main entrance of the building is to emphasize contrast and juxtaposition: the main entrance forms a high-rise shape with steel structure; its oblique roof shape comes from the first letter a of art. This idea comes from the thought of Li Tao, the chief designer.the first idea is a more ancient symmetrical shape, which later evolved into a square shape. I think it’s too formal, so I change it to a hypotenuse and a The combination of right angles finally forms a word. The word “a” and the window shapes D and C of the facade form the acronym of “art design center”. The design directly expresses the meaning of the building name ADC with pop’s method; although simple, it is direct and effective. The “A” is a newly implanted structural form, which forms a strong age and material contrast with the original retained roof and wall.