西村大院及西村艺术空间

West Village (Xicun) occupies 1 Beisen North Road in Qingyang District, Chengdu: an unconventional urban complex designed by Liu Jiakun and his office Jiakun Architects for Sichuan Mailun Industrial. The site is a complete block 237 metres east to west and 178 metres north to south, ringed by streets and mature housing, zoned for community sports use with a plot ratio of 2.0, 40 per cent coverage and a 24 metre height limit; construction ran from April 2010 to January 2015, producing 135,552 square metres over five and six storeys at 24 metres. Instead of the usual central mass, the design rings the block and leaves the middle open as a park-like courtyard: large, medium and small bamboo courtyards nest inside one another and stay open to the public, continuing Chengdu's habit of leisure under bamboo. An elevated running track loops the complex and climbs to the roof to circle it, giving runners and cyclists a continuous route and the building its most recognisable dynamic form. Programmes mix sport and leisure with culture and creative industry: the central court holds pitches and landscape, the ring holds food, retail, offices and studios, and the existing building kept on the north edge was converted into a multi-purpose art space, Xicun Art Space. That space has shown continuously since 2010, when the first Southwest Graduates Art Exhibition brought over 200 works by nearly 80 graduates of nine colleges; later shows include the 'Crossover–Subversion' artists-and-designers invitational and the 2023 Starlight Guochao cultural-creative exhibition. West Village was selected for the main exhibition of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, became an architecture pilgrimage after Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Prize in 2025, and holds Sichuan's first five-star sports service complex rating. Enquiries: 028-81700013.