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Zhenbaoguan Museum

A' Design Award 2025 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

21 April 2025

Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao
Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao
Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao
Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao
Zhenbaoguan Museum by Yunhai Zhao

Yunhai Zhao · CLIENT: Yunhai Zhao

Zhenbaoguan is a private museum interior covering 750 square meters. The space displays a collection of artworks and wine inside a residence that also serves as an office and a place to receive guests. Cabinets, ceilings and floors are finished in black wood and stone, so attention stays on the exhibits. The cabinet lighting illuminates each artwork rather than the cabinet surfaces. Wine walls are arranged symmetrically along both sides of the main corridor, following Oriental symmetry aesthetics. Turns and level changes create a varied route through the rooms.

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Unique Properties
Use the museum's ideas in this case, in order to highlight the beauty of art to a greater extent, whether it is the cabinet or the top, the ground are using black wood finishes and stone, weakened off the guest visual area, so that the visual center to stay in the cabinet, the system of the cabinet lamps designed to only light the artwork does not light the surface of the cabinet, each and every detail is designed to show the artwork of the splendor.
Dimensions & Packaging
Project Area:750 square meters
Tags
Treasure, gallery, oriental aesthetics, symmetry, private collection
Production Technology
The left and right sides of each wine wall is a repetition of the sequence, extending to the visual center point at the end of a specially furnished wine, the sense of perspective of each channel reaches the Confucian emphasis on neutral and calm. Similarly the Taoist concept of balance between yin and yang is also reflected with in the symmetrical aesthetics. The two sides of the symmetry can be seen as the mutual reflection of yin and yang, opposing and interdependent, together forming a complete whole.
Design Challenge
After all, it is still a private place, in addition to the space to receive guests should also meet the needs of the office residence, the whole should have a certain spirituality and sense of relaxation. The overall color scheme is light and elegant, the wall design symbols as simple as possible, the complex elements used in the top, the ground, the visual center is always a quiet sense of calm, with the paintings and calligraphy is still Zen, and everywhere in line with the meaning of to take the vegetarian decorations, casual value of its heart.
Project Duration
Project Area:750 square meters
Completion date:December 2024
Operation Flow
When intervening in the project, because the client loved to collect wine, he wanted to have a large wine wall to display, and to talk about Chinese wine culture when showing guests around, each bottle of wine has its own representative of Chinese culture. When we designed the wine wall, we thought of the Oriental Symmetry Aesthetics as an art philosophy, and the wine wall was displayed in a balanced way on both sides of the main corridor, and this symmetrical form has a solemn sense of order.
Research
When setting up the spatial movement, set up a lot of turns and transitions. it hope that the rhythm of the space, the flow of people, and the line of sight can be used to change the scenery. As people move forward and pause in the space, or up and down the trajectory to create different physical feelings and experiences, so as to respond to the space, Time and Emotion, and to perceive the diversity and richness of the space. The space is perceived as diverse and rich.
Inspiration
When first met the owner of the Treasure House, there were many treasured works of art, each of which was a favorite.In order to party A better display of these works of art, in terms of display thought of the museum model,in the museum along the design of the flow of easy to see all the exhibits, and no matter the lighting display are maximized to amplify the beauty of the collection.
Image Credits
Image #1:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #2:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #3:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #4:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Image #5:Photographer YunHai Zhao,Designer,2025.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Yunhai Zhao

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