2025 | Professional

NY Architectural Design Awards Silver Winner Winner

Live Together

Entrant Company

RUIJIE XU

Category

Cultural Architecture - Interactive and Experiential Spaces

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

Wenxing Bridge is conceived as a hybrid cultural infrastructure that transforms the act of crossing into a shared architectural experience.

As social structures evolve, collective life shapes collective care. The project seeks to preserve the foundations of community by allowing people to inhabit and cherish what connects them.



Embedded in everyday routines, the bridge becomes a spatial foundation for daily life.

Soft cultural institutions such as customs and rituals are integrated with the hard infrastructure and landscape, ensuring cultural continuity and ecological resilience while supporting the sustainable operation of the local society.



Wenxing Bridge operates as a system whose essence is connection through fluid mobility.

Our design not only constructs the physical form of a bridge but choreographs an interactive public realm that sustains community engagement and encourages ongoing material and cultural production. Space becomes a catalyst for exchange, heritage preservation, and social wellbeing.



The design minimizes conflict between infrastructure and the everyday landscape, allowing life to fully inhabit the structure.

Flexible and responsive spaces adapt to local needs, guiding behaviors, reinforcing cultural identity, and connecting life, memory, and history across the river. Through this hybrid typology, spatial authenticity becomes lived authenticity, generating a renewed sense of belonging and shared civic ground.

A bridge becomes a place for living together.

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