Beauty In Simplicity
d+a|Issue 121
Star Art Gallery by MAPS is a form-led project that takes its cues from its surrounds.
Low Shi Ping
Beauty In Simplicity

Simple. Straightforward. These are two adjectives that keep coming up as Tan Hock Beng describes Star Art Gallery, a project completed earlier this year in Anning City in Kunming, China.

Contrasted against the complex, multifaceted hospitality buildings that Tan typically designs, this one does indeed seem so.

Yet, there is also much beauty in simplicity and something the Principal of MAPS managed to evoke with this project.

OF MOUNTAINS AND STARS

Located on elevated ground, the site is visible from the highway that leads from Kunming into Anning City.

“The first impression was that the hill is actually an outcrop framed by the high, craggy mountains of Yunnan,” says Tan.

“When we were there in the evening, it happened to be a clear night and I saw the sky covered with stars, which was quite fascinating.

“I therefore got the idea to try to capture all that in the building.”

Further allowing this was the client’s brief – or lack thereof.

Envisioned to have two lives, the project is, for now, a sales gallery and later, to be donated to the municipal government to adapt into an art gallery and museum.

This means the functions are “ambiguous”, explains Tan, with only the need for basic facilities like washrooms and lifts.

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