UCCA
Beijing, Chine
Jean-Michel Wilmotte shares a double passion with Myriam and Guy Ullens: contemporary art and the spirit of collecting. To house the couple's collection of more than a thousand pieces of contemporary Chinese art, the architect designed a private museum, UCCA, by renovating an industrial building from the 1950s in the Dashanzi district of Beijing.
Jean-Michel Wilmotte shares a double passion with Myriam and Guy Ullens: contemporary art and the spirit of collecting. To house the couple's collection of more than a thousand pieces of contemporary Chinese art, the architect designed a private museum, UCCA, by renovating an industrial building from the 1950s in the Dashanzi district of Beijing.
Without altering the perspective of the volume and its succession of concrete bays, we created a mezzanine from scratch to accommodate a research centre open to students, artists and amateurs.
Without altering the perspective of the volume and its succession of concrete bays, we created a mezzanine from scratch to accommodate a research centre open to students, artists and amateurs.
