Project in Detail
Competition for Comic and Animation Museum and Plaza
Hangzhou, China
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, BARCELONA, Spain
2011
World Architecture Festival 2011 - Shortlisted
THE MAGICAL ISLAND
The magical island will be a complete experience with natural and
artificail features that will play together with the comic museum experience.
A whole reinvention of the concept of a museum experience, a very
brand new concept that will be thought exclusively for the city of
hangzhou and for china; making it become a world unique reference in its field.
The museum will be very innovative and will attract people of every
age not only from china but from all over the globe as a new
chinese attraction park for fantasy and imagination.
The museum is a landmark that will trigger the complete landscape of white horse lake. a very respectful but at the same time very colourful and recognasible landmark the surroundings will play a very important and interactive role in the project. it will be transformed in some kind of magic land that will enhance the impossible, it will dare the mind to reach unexpected levels of imagination.
A building that understands the chinese landscape and will turn its
immediate surroundings of the white horse lake as famous as the
west lake from Hangzhou.
Before.
After.
The magical island has floated upwards in order to improve its
relationship with the first phase, allowing a better comprehension
and view of the whole complex.
The magical island will now be a whole new experience of the
imagination in nature, starting from the ramp that will take you down
to a subaquatic underworld. from there visitants will be able to
experience uncerwater views from the lake mixed with giant screens
that will project animations from comics all around the world. a
double height space will enlarge the vision and the experience, going
from underneath a cluster of waterlillies up to the floating baskets.
The roof will now be an artifical landscape full of trees and green
areas, a new experience in nature. a new garden from where to
enjoy the views of the white horse lake.
Lead Architect »
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
BARCELONA
Spain
Professional Credits »
Architect
Mr Iker Alzola
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Mrs Beatriz Cabanillas Macìas
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Mrs Mar Flores
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Francesca Neus Frontera
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Miss Qiwei Hu
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
China
Architect
Ms Dean Mapeso
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Canada
Architect
Mr William Mathers
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
United Kingdom
Architect
Mr Tomas Montis
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Francesca Origa
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Italy
Architect
Mr Roberto Palau Tamez
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Mr Diego Javier Parra
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Colombia
Architect
Felipe Pecegueiro
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Brazil
Architect
Mr Igor Peraza
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Venezuela
Architect
Mrs Alice Puleo
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Italy
Architect
Ana Redondo
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Mrs Silvia Rio
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect
Gabriele Rotelli
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Italy
Architect
Mrs Vaiva Simliunaite
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Lithuania
Architect
Mrs Ana Catalina Villareal Yarto
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Architect and Director
Mrs Benedetta Tagliabue
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Client / Developer
Headquarter of Hangzhou White Horse Lake Creative Town
China
Environmental Engineer
0
Spain
Project Director
Mr Daniel Rosselló
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Spain
Structural Engineer
Mr Julio Martinez Calzón
MC2
Spain