Nanjing City Wall Museum Salão de Exposições by Yuan Zhuan and Quan Liu

Ouro Interior · 2026

Nanjing City Wall Museum Salão de Exposições

by Yuan Zhuan and Quan Liu

A' Design Award de Ouro 2026 in Interior
CLIENT: Jiangsu Bozhan Cultural Creative Industry Co., Ltd.
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About Nanjing City Wall Museum Salão de Exposições

O salão de exposições do Museu da Muralha da Cidade de Nanquim é um espaço interior que apresenta a história da Muralha de Nanquim. O salão ocupa 2500 metros quadrados no piso da cave, com alturas de teto de seis e quatro metros. Cinco zonas explicam a construção, a preservação e o valor cultural da muralha. Um espaço em disposição matricial, construído com quase mil tijolos inscritos da muralha, é sustentado por estruturas de aço. Betão à vista e painéis de alumínio personalizados compõem as paredes expositivas. Mais de vinte módulos interativos, incluindo maquetes de areia em 3D e artefactos tácteis, servem visitantes de todas as idades.

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

Nanjing City Wall Museum Salão de Exposições conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que Nanjing City Wall Museum Salão de Exposições seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Nanjing City Wall Museum Salão de Exposições cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: With the concept of "Presenting the Wall", the exhibition hall shows the grandeur of the Nanjing City Wall by emphasizing its role as a world cultural heritage site. With five zones, it interprets the Nanjing City Wall's cultural value from thousand-year-old history to the modern protection of cultural heritage. It applies various interactive installations like the pioneering array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks and 3D sandboxes, offering a cultural feast for all-age audiences.
Dimensions & Packaging: The exhibition hall is located in the basement floor of the museum building, covering an area of 2500 square meters. The ceiling height of the space is 6 meters, with some areas having a ceiling height of 4 meters.
Tags: Nanjing City Wall exhibition, World Cultural Heritage site, "Presenting the Wall", an array space made from nearly a thousand city bricks, 3D sandbox, interactive installations, all-age audiences, cultural feast, immersive experience, sustainabile designs.
Production Technology: The exhibition hall is China's first to integrate an ancient city sandbox with a colored terrazzo inlaid map on the floor, highlighting key areas while enhancing the spatial depth. Fair-faced concrete and custom aluminum panels are used for display walls, balancing aesthetic texture and durability. Over 20 modules (3D sandboxes, tactile artifacts, interactive installations, etc.) offer an immersive touring experience that closes the distance between audiences and the Nanjing City Wall.
Design Challenge: The exhibition hall pioneers an array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks, which are directly sourced from the Nanjing City Wall and bear unique inscriptions, imbuing the exhibition hall with high cultural value. It uses steel structures to ensure the safe display of historical artifacts and maximize the audiences' immersive visual experience, delivering visual and cultural impact.
Research: The exhibition hall presents the Nanjing City Wall's cultural value as a testament to urban civilization, a model of ancient engineering, and a paradigm of human-environment relationship. It pioneers an array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks, with digital interactive installations to balance grand narratives with engaging activities, fusing cultural heritage and public education.
Inspiration: Inspired by the Nanjing City Wall's masonry techniques and spatial enclosure features, the exhibition hall adopts a unique architectural design. It is dominated by city wall gray and accentuated by thematic colors such as Forbidden City red and moat blue, enriching visual layering and embodying cultural depth. It pioneers an array space made of nearly a thousand city bricks, aided by multi-sensory digital interactive installations, creating a museum that is friendly to all-age audiences.
Project Duration: The project finished in May 2023 in Nanjing.
Operation Flow: The exhibition hall interweaves large-scale artifact displays with small-volume interactive areas through a well-planned visitor route. From layout to form design, it establishes a coherent and sophisticated display system, enhancing the connection between the museum and the city wall ruins. Besides, it offers multiple interaction activities like brick inscription surname queries, wall memory recordings, and immersive animation, satisfying the needs of all-age audiences.
Image Credits: Jiangsu Bozhan Cultural Creative Industry Co., Ltd.