Hanyangling Descriptio Expositionis Musei by Biwei Zhu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Patrimonium Culturale Competition Category.
ArgentumPatrimonium Culturale· 2020
Hanyangling Descriptio Expositionis Musei
by Biwei Zhu
Client: Wilbur Design Studio
Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Patrimonium Culturale Category
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The Design
About Hanyangling Descriptio Expositionis Musei
Hanyangling est descriptio expositionis musei dedicata dynastiae Han in urbe Xi'an. Museum mille sescentos metros quadratos in duabus tabulatis complectitur, quorum unum sub terra iacet. Figurae fictiles dynastiae Han per excavationem archaeologicam effossae in armariis tribus mensuris confectis exhibentur. Luminaria numero diverso adduntur pro densitate reliquiarum expositarum. Lapis in parietibus et plastica cana in pavimento adhibentur ad tranquillam auram creandam. Areae multimediales interactivae et reproductio loci archaeologici culturam illius aetatis explicant.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum
Hanyangling Descriptio Expositionis Musei victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Hanyangling Descriptio Expositionis Musei opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Hanyangling Descriptio Expositionis Musei creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The theme of the exhibition is clear. It is based on the first golden age created by Emperor Hanjing in the Han Dynasty in Chinese history - "the rule of Wen and jing". There are various cultural relics of Han Dynasty terracotta figures unearthed from archaeological excavation on display here. These cultural relics have exquisite shapes. Through the exhibition design of this space, we can get a proper visual presentation.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project area is 1600sqm2 in total. It is a museum with two floors, one of which is underground.
- Tags
- Archaeological, Museum, Exhibition, Han, Historic
- Production Technology
- In the space environment, stone materials are mainly used on the wall and grey plastic materials are used on the ground to create a quiet and peaceful atmosphere as a whole. According to the cultural relics to be exhibited, the exhibition cabinet has been designed into three sizes, and different numbers of professional spotlights are installed according to the density of the cultural relics on display, so as to highlight the exquisite shape of the pottery figurines of the Han Dynasty on display.
- Design Challenge
- This exhibition project displays thousands of exquisite exhibits, all of which are national cultural relics. While considering the space layout design, how to classify the exhibits according to the information of these exhibits and create the corresponding visual atmosphere is a serious challenge. Because it takes a long time and is very complicated. At the same time, the exhibition requires a high quality of technology, to meet the safety protection performance of cultural relics, and to control the light reflection of glass to avoid the visual interference during the exhibition.
- Research
- Varieties of exquisite pottery relics are displayed by distinctively visualizing techniques and using powerful technical means, like multi-media interactive areas and reproduction of archaeological sites, which provides the ancient art heritages with new vitality, thus fully reflect the material culture, political systems and spiritual features of the Han Dynasty. The new exhibition aims to bring new visual experience to visitors and to help them realize more stories behind those relics.
- Inspiration
- Like multi-media interactive areas and reproduction of archaeological sites, which provides the ancient art heritages with new vitality, thus fully reflect the material culture, political systems and spiritual features of the Han Dynasty. The new exhibition aims to bring new visual experience to visitors and to help them realize more stories behind those relics.
- Project Duration
- The project started in August 2018 and finished in July 2019 in Xi'an City.
- Operation Flow
- It receives a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every day, and has professional museum commentators. Here, is full of the strong Han Dynasty traditional culture atmosphere, is helpful for people to study deeply the Chinese culture. In the space, unique visual effects and strong technical backstage support, such as multimedia VR roaming, archaeological site restoration, etc., display a variety of exquisite ceramic relics, making the ancient Chinese art heritage glow with new vitality.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Hanyangling Museum,2018
- Team Members
- Construction Unit：Shaanxi Daqin Expo Co., Ltd.
Design team: Wilbur Studio
Design Director: Biwei Zhu
Project Manager: Chao Zhang
Engineering Management: Jin He - Image Credits
- Wilbur Images
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