272 Gallery / Atelier Xianza

The city expansion accelerates along with the constant development of information. At the same time, a fierce renewal inside the city which is like a surging whirlpool is absorbing all kinds of resources radially from the center to the surrounding. In the situation of increasingly scarce resources, the re-use of the “old part” of the city is coming up as a new solution. The “272 Gallery” is generated in this background aims to innovation reuse. It is located in the Chuihong community of the center of Chancheng District, Foshan City. It is about 15 minutes walk from the Zumiao temple, a folk religious culture center of Foshan. It was built in the 1980s, the block is composed of several groups of residential districts with a pleasant scale of buildings and streets. Most of them are four to five stories brick concrete buildings. Nearby, there are community parks, schools, markets, coffee shops, and various types of small shops with a strong flavor of life.