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UCCA Dune Art Museum merges art with Chinese beach horizons

Nature and architecture meet at the seashore in the semi-submerged sinuous architecture of UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN Studio.

UCCA Dune Art Museum aerial view – Photo by WU Qingshan.

– A a series of inter-connected, organic-shaped cells hidden under the sand dunes compose the

UCCA Dune Art Museum

by

OPEN

studio. The urban, landscape and interior design practice has completed a sanctuary for nature and art located in Qinhuangdao on the Northern Chinese coast.

Café – Photo by WU Qingshan.

The complex features minimalistic gallery spaces characterized organic-shaped skylights, a café nested under a semi-submerged sinuous architecture facing the beach and a panoramic rooftop blending simple forms with the sea horizon.

Cafe night view – Photo by TIAN Fangfang.

The UCCA Dune Art Museum’s architecture was conceived to protect the fragile and critical natural component of the coast from the area’s encroaching real-estate developments

,” Explain

Li Hu

and

Huang Wenjing

, co-founders of New York-based studio

OPEN

.

Gallery space – Photo by WU Qingshan.

We believe in the innovative power of architecture to transform people and the way they live, while striking a new balance between the manmade and nature,

” add at OPEN studio. Indeed,

“the museum is deeply committed to the site’s natural ecology and environment, and creates an engaging and non-traditional encounter with art and nature

.”

Outdoor exhibition terrace – Photo by ZAIYE Studio.

UCCA Dune Art Museum won the prestigious AZ Awards by influential architecture and design magazine AZURE. “

The Dune Art Museum embodies a unique relationship between interior and exterior. The space speaks of the place, and the materiality coherently fosters the concept

,” commented jury member Stefano Pujatti.

Panoramic rooftop – Photo by WU Qingshan.

Pure, simple and touching, the UCCA Dune Art Museum has also been recognized as Iconic Awards Best of Best by German Design Council and named 2019 Building of the Year by Archdaily.

Night view – Photo by TIAN Fangfang.

Gallery skylight – Photo by WU Qingshan.

Spiral stair case – Photo by WU Qingshan.