Dune Art Museum (2015-2017) UCCA – Beijing, China

the leading independent institution of Chinese contemporary art in China.

Proud to announce the creation of its first museum beyond Beijing, UCCA Dune.

Officially announced the creation of its first museum
beyond Beijing, UCCA Dunes.

UCCA – Dune Designed by OPEN Architects, UCCA Dune was built by Aranya.
Is an artistic destination located a few hours by car or train from Beijing in the community of Aranya Gold Coast, in Beidaihe district, in Hebei province.

It will be programmed and operated by the Foundation UCCA. It will present each year a complete series of exhibitions and projects. Designed by OPEN Architects, UCCA Dune was built by Aranya, which has entered into a strategic partnership with the Foundation UCCA to support museum operations and programming. UCCA Dune will be open to the public later this year.

The Studio d’Architecture OPEN

Location
Qinhuangdao, China
architects
LI Hu, HUANG Wenjing
Design team ZHOU Tingting, HU Boji, WANG Mengmeng, ZHAO Yao, Anne FANG, Joshua PARKER, LU Di, CHEN Xiuyuan, MA Qiancheng, YE Qing, Steven SHI, JIA Han
Institute of local design CABR Technology Co., Ltd. Client Tianxingjiuzhou real estate development Co., Ltd
Year of conception: 2015 – 2017
Gallery Program, artist's studio, reception, restaurant, bar Surface 1480,0 m2

The Chinese firm OPEN Architecture has unveiled its latest project in progress, a museum located on the coast of Bohai Bay, in northern China . Entitled “Dialogue by the sea”

their project includes two complementary artistic spaces: a space inspired by a cave hidden in the sand dunes of the beach and a second space emerging from the sea “like a lonely rock”.
Both projects are currently under construction, with a calendar to come.

The Second Museum ” Guggenheimian ”

Build an Art Museum inside a sand dune..

an aerial view of the concrete structure of the museum
image © OPEN © croc de Tang

View of the UCCA dune photography by OPEN Architecture.

I study them OPEN Architecture
Beijing-based published recent construction photos and details on the Dune Art Museum, a cell resembling a cell, in the sand dunes of China.

Located in the Gold Coast Aranya community in Beidaihe, UCCA dunes , designed by OPEN Architecture and commissioned by Aranya, will be officially programmed and operated by the UCCA Foundation , announced at a UCCA press conference in Beijing on September 1 2018.

OPEN architecture shared construction images from one of its most anticipated projects. Located on a quiet beach along the coast of Bohai Bay, in northern China, the “dune art museum” East, as indicated by his name, buried in a sand dune.

OPEN architecture shared construction images from one of its most anticipated projects. Located on a quiet beach along the coast of Bohai Bay, in northern China, the “dune art museum” East, as indicated by his name, buried in a sand dune. For the construction of the underground structure, the design team excavated the site and built a concrete network with a total area of 930 square meters. As construction proceeds, the bare shells will be covered with sand and the original state of the dune will be restored, including shrubs that help stabilize it.

In September 2018, the UCCA – the main independent contemporary art institution in China – announced that it would work in partnership with OPEN to program and manage the museum, which will now be known as a UCCA. the exhibitions will be designed to exist in dialogue with the unique shape of the building and its relationships with the natural environment. While the exterior of the museum is fully integrated into nature, its interior spaces were designed as a mysterious network of organically shaped caves.

This series of cell-like spaces can accommodate a range of programs, including galleries, studios and a café of different sizes. After going through a long dark tunnel and a small reception area, this space opens up as visitors enter the largest multifunctional gallery where a skylight provides spectacular lighting.

Meanwhile, a spiral staircase leads to a gazebo on the sand dune, guiding the public from the dark corners of the museum's cavern galleries to the vast opening of the sea and the sky.

OPEN work simultaneously on the plans of an adjacent sister institution – the sea arts museum – that would emerge from the water like a lonely rock. in a close future, a long walkway will extend into the ocean, allowing visitors to walk between the two museums when the tide is low.

The first inaugural exhibition of the UCCA dune, which should open later in 2018, explore the relationship between man and nature in the context of China's rapid development.

The Aranya complex is located on the coast of the Bohai Sea, around 300 km from Beijing by car or an hour and a half by car from 90 minutes by train. Travel time will be significantly reduced when a high-speed train opens next year.

Beidaihe District and the surrounding city of Qinhuangdao work for Beijing like the Hamptons to New York or the Cape Cod to Boston, explain Tinari. “Many Pekingese have weekend homes.” The co-founder of Aranya, Ma Yin, also recruited Beijing theater manager Meng Jinghui to open a theater near the museum. Cui Jian, seminal rock musician, owns a recording studio and is building a second, more advanced space.

Sanlian Public Library,
nicknamed the “the most lonely library in the world”
opened on a secluded beach nearby in 2015.

UCCA Dune, ou Shaqiu en mandarin, contains seven interior and three exterior galleries, with parts of the curved building dug in the sand. A second smaller building, which will be completed next year, will be built in water and partially submerged. It will only be accessible at low tide via a narrow causeway.

OPEN work simultaneously on the plans of an adjacent sister institution – the sea arts museum – that would emerge from the water like a lonely rock. in a close future, a long walkway will extend into the ocean, allowing visitors to walk between the two museums when the tide is low.

source:
ArchDaily

source:
DESIGNBOOM

Since September 2018: the Center for Contemporary Art Ullens

(UCCA)

Created by Guy Ullens (a Belgian philanthropist),
First private art center installed in China.

L’UCCA
Occasionally presents exhibitions from Guy's collection of contemporary Chinese art & Myriam Ullens Foundation based in Switzerland, which now counts nearly 1 300 works.

This center of contemporary art organizes exhibitions of artists whose careers are already firmly established, as well as young talents, Chinese or international..

L’UCCA
aims to become a platform for knowledge exchange through research and education programs.