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ON THE
TERRACE

Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange City he Chinese Cultural Hall is located
to the east of the Sino-Italian
Reception Hall - The Chinese Cultural Hall TCultural Exchange Center. It can
be reached from the Sino-Italian Pavilion
through the cultural corridor surrounded
Chengdu, Sichuan, China by bamboo forests. The Chinese Cultural
Hall is composed of multifunctional
halls, meeting rooms, restaurants, piano
pavilions, and tea rooms, and the design
is filled with oriental charm.
At the start of the design process, the
architect hoped to find an intersection of
Chinese and Western cultural differences:
the overall layout concept of the site was
taken from the “ruyi”, used by China to
gift foreign envoys since ancient times
as a symbol of friendly relations and
peace between two countries. The east
and west pavilions are connected by a
cultural corridor, which is surrounded by
ponds and bamboo forests. The Chinese
Cultural Hall and the Chinese-Italian
Cultural Hall use Italian squares as their
spatial prototypes. Through the creation
of scenery, form, meaning, and emotion,
they interpret the cultural philosophy of
the harmony between man and nature in
the Eastern world.

Scenery
The original site is a bamboo forest,
with a pond on the west side. The starting

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