Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2020
Fengqi Chang’an Aesthetics Museum Exhibition Hall
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: GOA (Group of Architects）
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,359
- Verification code 1FBE548332 · Verify this award
About Fengqi Chang’an Aesthetics Museum Exhibition Hall
Fengqi Chang'an Aesthetics Museum is an exhibition building in Chang'an, China. The design is inspired by nature, traditional Chinese gardens and landscape paintings. Functional volumes of different sizes are combined with courtyards and verandas to form a continuous and flexible garden space. Each courtyard serves a purpose, such as display, communication, meditation or activities, and crisscrossed corridors link them. Glass surfaces, wide door leaves and large overhanging eaves create an orderly frame. The building covers 6,400 square meters on a 16,000 square meter site.
Within the discourse of contemporary architecture that seeks meaningful dialogue with traditional building cultures, GOA (Group of Architects)'s Fengqi Chang'an Aesthetics Museum Exhibition Hall emerges as a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between heritage forms and modern spatial experience, the design demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how vernacular architectural elements including sweeping roof profiles, timber screens, and courtyard water features can be reinterpreted through contemporary construction methodologies while retaining their essential poetic and functional qualities, the rendering captured during a rain shower reveals the architects' deliberate engagement with atmospheric conditions as active participants in the spatial experience rather than elements to be merely excluded, the composition of interconnected pavilions arranged around a central reflecting pool establishes a processional sequence that recalls the layered thresholds of traditional compound architecture while the generous glazing and illuminated interiors suggest contemporary transparency and openness to community gathering, the material palette demonstrates restraint and consistency with warm timber screens providing visual warmth and textural richness against the cooler tones of metal roofing and stone paving, the integration of a mature tree within the water court speaks to a biophilic design sensibility that honors the presence of nature within architectural intervention, particularly notable is the treatment of the roof forms which achieve a delicate balance between historical reference and contemporary expression through their gently curved profiles executed in standing seam metal, the overall effect suggests a place of cultural contemplation where visitors might experience both the achievements of human craft and the gentle drama of natural phenomena, one is invited to consider how architecture might serve as a threshold between the bustle of contemporary life and spaces of reflection and aesthetic appreciation.
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- Unique Properties
- Through the combo of different sizes of functional forms, architects combine various courtyards and inlay the elements of verandas to create a continuous, flexible and rich garden space.Besides of the usage for exhibition, the building takes the experience of visitors in the garden into account. The courtyards are set up according to various functions, including the ones for display, communication, meditation, activities and etc., which are blended with each other through crisscrossed corridors
- Dimensions & Packaging
- the project is with a building scale of 6,400 square meters and an area of 16,000 square meters
- Tags
- nature, gentle, traditional courtyards, visiting experience, large size of overhanging eave
- Production Technology
- Extensive application of glass, large span of door leaf and large size of overhanging eave blend together, forming a continuous and orderly frame.
With well-proportioned shapes, volumes of different sizes and orderly layout, the building meets various functional demands. - Design Challenge
- This project is located in Yanta District of Xi’an, China, which is an ancient capital with a time-honored history and rich cultural heritage. The purpose of the design is to integrate the building into a modern living space and activity function on the premise of respecting the traditional garden spatial relationship.
- Project Duration
- The project started design in April 2019 in Chang'an in China, and wished to be finished in 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Besides of the usage for exhibition, the building also takes the experience of visitors in the garden into account. The courtyards are set up according to various functions, including the ones for display, communication, meditation, activities and etc., which are blended with each other through crisscrossed corridors. Extensive application of glass, large span of door leaf and large size of overhanging eave blend together, forming a continuous and orderly frame. With well-proportioned shapes, volumes of different sizes and orderly layout, the building meets various functional demands.
- Research
- Inspired by nature, traditional Chinese gardens and landscape paintings focus on mountains, forests, wind and water with flexible layout, as well as characteristics such as the reality and unreality, opening and closing, twists and turns, high and low, etc.. Through the combo of different sizes of functional forms, architects combine various courtyards and inlay the elements of verandas to create a continuous, flexible and rich garden space.
- Inspiration
- This project is inspired by nature, traditional Chinese gardens and landscape paintings focus on mountains, forests, wind and water with flexible layout, as well as characteristics such as the reality and unreality, opening and closing, twists and turns, high and low, etc..
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- all the copyright reserved by GOA
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