Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2018

B 3
Public Amenity Buildings
Institutional
Mention
Architect
Jun Shan
Location
Tongliao, Inner
Mongolia, China
Year
2016
Museum of Traditional
Mongolian Medicine
This museum is located in the new district
of northern Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. In 2013,
the government of Tongliao invited several
well-known Chinese architects to design a cultural
facility to convert the existing Xiaozhuang
riverbank into a museum park. This Museum of
Traditional Mongolian Medicine is an important
hub in this ensemble. Lying at the east end of
site, the museum acts as the entrance to the
park and provides the first impression of the city.
Lying at the frontier in-between urban environment
and natural landscape, nomadic civilisation
and agricultural civilisation in the broader
context, the museum features a design strategy
in-between floating and anchoring, underground
and aboveground, day and night, just
as the intricate balance of the human body as
advocated by traditional Mongolian medicine.
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