男人藏精阁

2025 | Professional

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Wei Chu Hui Innovation Hub

Entrant Company

Yitian Design Group

Category

Interior Design - Hospitality

Client's Name

Wuhan Institute of Industrial Innovation and Development

Country / Region

China

Historical districts represent the cultural fabric of a city. The preservation of old buildings showcases the spatial patterns shaped during urban development, carrying profound significance for cultural heritage. In this project, YiTian Design Group strikes a harmonious balance between aesthetics and functionality, blending architectural distinctiveness with corporate identity. Going beyond mere physical renewal, the design integrates with neighboring heritage sites like Tongxing Lane and Shengli Street, restoring the historical urban fabric to revive a century-old legacy. By rekindling precious urban memories, the project revitalizes the past to inspire future innovation. This project is located at No. 1 Yuefei Street, Jiang鈥檃n District, Wuhan, within the聽"Hankou Historic District". Its predecessor was a聽century-old French-style building聽constructed before 1937. Now, this聽900-square-meter heritage-protected structure聽has been transformed into the聽鈥榃ei Chu Hui鈥橧nnovation Hub鈥攁 high-end talent cluster developed by Wuhan Institute of Industrial Innovation and Development. The聽"Wei Chu Hui" Innovation Hub聽will聽integrate resources, build an innovation network, and facilitate seamless collaboration聽across government, industry, academia, research, finance, service, and application sectors. It aims to provide聽comprehensive momentum聽for Wuhan鈥檚 industrial upgrading. The design concept of this project centers on聽harmonious aesthetic balance, integrating the corporate culture of Wuhan Institute of Industrial Innovation and Development to create a space that embodies聽both urban heritage and institutional identity. Designed for聽long-term adaptability聽to future scenarios, the architecture employs a聽restrained yet intentional聽approach鈥攚here elements are subtly curated without excessive embellishment. With聽a profound vision expressed through lightness, the design breathes timeless artistic renewal into the building. Beneath stained-glass windows, sunlight spills onto vegetable vendors' baskets鈥攁 surreal juxtaposition of the divine and the everyday. Here, the sacred and the mundane coalesce into a living tableau of urban poetry. The curtain wall of the new tower reflects the silhouette of heritage buildings鈥攖ransforming contemporary materials into a鈥榣ooking-glass canvas鈥檕f history. This interplay of reflection and substance becomes an architectural metaphor for how the past continually informs the present. Here, moss-filled cracks and weathered paint layers emerge as聽more eloquent chroniclers than textbooks聽could ever be.

Credits

Chief Designer
Gan Yuankai
Chief Designer
Luo Jie
Chief Designer
Guo Chengxi
Photographer
Cai wei
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