On The Multi - Dimensional Characteristics Of Contemporary Cultural Architecture

In contemporary discourse, government and civilian are becoming increasingly interested in the cultural building design (i.e., the form and quality of culture building’s space). The reasons of this social phenomenon not only rely on the public functions of its own, but also depend on its significant role in contemporary urban space. In this light, the specificity in contemporary culture activities has great impact on the spatial design of contemporary culture buildings. At the same time, reasonable culture buildings also have great potential in contributing to both cultural activities and urban development.Contemporary culture shows its complexity in various aspects:such as, market-orientation, civilianization, secularity, interaction, and visualization; which are respectively representing in its publicity, interactivity, compatibility, encouragement of public participation, experiencing and communication. Accordingly, as spatial reaction of such context, contemporary culture buildings are becoming as the multi-feature hybridization that compounds the social requirements and the features of multi dimension, multi functions, multi behaviors and multi values of its own.This dissertation aims to analyze the feature of cultural space from the aspects of circulation, hierarchy, verticality, and construction by looking into several case studies of typical contemporary culture buildings. By comparing both within case studies and between contemporary and traditional cultural building design. The aim of which is to uncover the design strategy of contemporary culture building design and therefore to project a theoretical basis for creating more far-sighted and dynamic spaces of culture activities in the future.