Venice, Italy, June 4, 2014 - MAD presented its latest project, Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. The recently started construction of Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center has a total construction area of ​​approximately 560,000 square meters. MAD is trying to realize an ideal "mountain and water city" through this urban-scale work.

Nanjing, with a history of more than 2,600 years, is rich in humanistic traditions and one of the most modernized cities in China. MAD has always adhered to the concept of rebuilding the harmonious relationship between man and environment in the traditional philosophy of symbiosis between man and nature in modern cities. While meeting the various needs of modern life, it creates a fusion and vibrant space to achieve the spiritual harmony between man and nature.

The project site consists of six plots, two of which are connected by a three-dimensional city square. Corridors and walkways of different scales are interspersed in several undulating commercial complexes, leading people to stroll from busy ground streets to three-dimensional parks, and wandering between buildings and landscapes.

The central area of ​​the site is composed of some slope-roofed huts scattered on the green carpet, presenting a small village-like environment, providing a pleasant urban space for large-scale urban projects. The small bridge connects the village, from one block to another, connecting rockery and flowing water, forming a poetic painting. The building uses concrete as the material, showing the simplicity of the material itself.

The tower located outside the base is like a mountain. The vertical sunshade glass shutters provide shade and light, providing pleasant light and wind for the interior space. It flows on the mountain like a waterfall, making the whole building full of artistic conception. The tower plays the role of the distant view of the mountain and the waterscape of the pool, waterfall, stream, pool, etc. in the base inherits the image and materializes the metaphor, blurring the edge between the distant view and the near view. The waterscape in these projects is also a rainwater collection pool, so that the water in the base can be reused for irrigation and recycling.

The "Nanjing Zendai Himalaya Center" project is already under orderly construction and is expected to be completed in 2017.

The theme of this year's Venice Biennale is "Basic Laws". MAD believes that the basic law of architecture is the "dialectical relationship between man and nature". MAD will bring "Silhouette Landscape", a work between a model and an installation created based on the "Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center" project, to Venice, which will be open to the public on June 7.

Exhibition
Date: June 7, 2014 to November 23, 2014
Address: Arsenale Nord, Tesa 100.