Illimite Architectes has been shortlisted for the 2024 THE PLAN Design Award
China, Zuoquan Township Cultural Compound, 2024
Recently, the 2024 shortlist of the PLAN Award was announced, organized by the well-known Italian architecture and design review magazine "THE PLAN". The joint design project "Zuoquan Township Cultural Compound" by Illimité Architectes and Tongji University Architectural Design and Research Institute stood out from the global competition and was shortlisted for the cultural category. A total of 44 cultural works were shortlisted worldwide, including 13 Chinese works.
ABOUT THE PLAN:
The PLAN Design Award is an annual international design award created by the well-known Italian design magazine THE PLAN, which recognizes outstanding projects in the architecture, interior design and urban planning industries. The PLAN Design Awards feature more than 1,000 entries in 20 categories each year. The award provides an international platform for designers to make important contributions to the discussion of key issues affecting the industry.
About Zuoquan Township Cultural Compound
Located in the middle of Taihang Mountain, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, the Zuoquan Township Cultural Compound project attempts to construct a spatial narrative that conforms to the spirit of the place and the zeitgeist from the perspective of the user on the basis of the regional text of Taihang Zuoquan: through the intertextuality between architecture and nature, the damage to the terrain is minimized, and the poetic theme is laid; At the same time, the rhythm of cave symbols and folk songs will be used to shape touching scenes and stories, and the spatial combination of "courtyards" and "corridors" will be used to arrange an open, free and resilient narrative structure, so as to provide a different spatial experience for each person. The project also won the Silver Award at the IDA 2023 International Design Award and the DNA Design Award Paris 2024.
Finalist Projects
Zuoquan Township Cultural Compound