Wujiang Wedding Hall

The Wujiang Wedding Hall is located on the northern edge of Chuihong Park, adjacent to major cultural landmarks including the Huayan Pagoda, the Ji Cheng Memorial Hall, and the remains of the Northern Song Dynasty Chuihong Bridge. The site previously housed a disused two-story café and a gateball court.


Occupying a prominent street-corner location, the former building was bulky and enclosed, obstructing both visual and pedestrian connectivity between city and park. The design strategy began by carving open the central mass, removing the original obstructive elements, and creating a direct visual corridor linking the city to the pagoda and main entrance, which reveals the scenery of the ancient structure, thereby reestablishing the interface between city and park.

The architecture employs a dual-façade strategy of “shielded outside, open inside”: the street-facing elevation screens urban noise to form a buffer, while the park-facing side opens up with layered corridors, viewing terraces, and resting areas, enabling landscape permeability and spatial integration.

The spatial sequence unfolds progressively: from the sense of ritual at the entrance to the differentiated atmospheres of the Chinese and Western ceremony halls - where the Western Hall introduces daylight to evoke solemnity, while the Chinese Hall draws on timber structures and borrowed views from gardens to convey warmth and intimacy. A three-dimensional corridor system extends northward to connect with a newly built gallery and stage plaza, merging architecture, landscape, and activities into an immersive scene.

The renovated building integrates administrative services, public culture, and commercial amenity, transforming into an urban parlor that is layered in space and rich in human warmth, offering every visitor a unique experience resonating with the environment.