Architecture Asia Special Issue - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2020

HONORABLE
MENTION
Jiading New Museum
B-4
Public Amenity:
Social and Cultural
Buildings
Architect:
Atelier Archmixing /
ZHUANG Shen
Location:
Shanghai, China
A newly built traditional style garden connects the classic Qiuxia Garden to its west-side entrance
of the museum. The rooftop has been designed as a modern landscape garden used both
as an outdoor display area and for multiple purposes. From the rooftop, visitors have a bird’s
eye view of the classical garden. The philosophy and the image of solid and void combinations
are frequently conveyed through penetrating and perforating forms. Drawing on their research
on traditional aesthetics, the architects used penetrating and perforating materials to achieve
a transparent/opaque effect for the facades along Bole Road. The curtain wall exhibits various
opening patterns developed from traditional buildings, creating an exquisite and elegant effect.
JURY CITATION: Located in a special historic site next to an old traditional Chinese garden, this
project is a combination of traditional Chinese architecture elements and modern forms. The
white concrete walls and steel façade follows the texture of brick walls, which achieved a sort
of tension between themselves and the old-style doors, verandas, and pitched roofs. The inside
garden also adopts the spatial arrangement of traditional Yuanlin. The contract between the
old and the new somehow brings a harmony that guides visitors through this old town's history.
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