China Design Museum – Bauhaus Collection

YEAR

2012 - 2018

LOCATION

China, Hangzhou

TYPE

Cultural

DESCRIPTION

The Chinese Academy of Art (CAA) in Hangzhou has two campuses. One is in the city center, near  West Lake, and a new larger campus is in the outskirts.  The presence of the architect Wang Shu is ubiquitous on the new campus: most of it buildings were designed by him.

When we started on this work, he had not yet received the 2012 Pritzker Prize. The help that we received from both of him and his architect wife Lu Wenyu during the early stages of our work – and even today -, were and continue to be fundamental.

The huge CAA collection and its recent acquisition of a large set of originals items from the Bauhaus School prompted the idea of a museum for the permanent collection along with other works and temporary exhibitions. We were given a characteristic museum brief, apart from some specific features.

The huge campus was already nearly fully occupied. There was only one area still available on the south-eastern edge, at the intersection of two major roads in this expanding area. The available land has a triangular shape, with the planning restrictions of an urban and environmental nature that defined the building’s possible footprint and volume.

The internal layout seeks to facilitate smooth visitor flow and flexibility in the use of spaces. Being an art academy, its main purpose will be to display the results of different activities, languages and techniques deployed by students and teachers, as well as to receive guests.

The basement is planned to house the technical areas, archives, service areas, and a café connected directly to a triangular courtyard in the centre f the building. Above it, the ground floor contains the entrance, public and rest areas, distributions, temporary exhibition halls and auditoriums. A mezzanine level permits circulation and a ramp link to the roof garden above the east-facing volume. The top floor of this volume is for the permanent exhibition of the Bauhaus collection. The administration areas, workshops for young artists and also some of the infrastructure are on the south-facing upper floors.

Red Agra sandstone from India will define the volumes and the exterior cladding. Some of the planes, especially inside the triangular volume, will be clad with white marble. The frames will be in be aluminum/wood.  A free-standing volume in white concrete, inserted perpendicularly to the southern boundary, will be used as an entrance of the general public.

Construction will begin shortly.

 

 Carlos Castanheira

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DRAWINGS

MODELS

CREDITS

Architects :

Álvaro Siza

with

Carlos Castanheira

Office in Portugal:

CC&CB – Architects, Lda.

Project Coordinator:

Pedro Carvalho

Project Team:

Adalberto Dias

Carolina Leite

Catarina Rodrigues

Diana Vasconcelos

Elisabete Queirós

Francesca Tiri

Germano Vieira

Joana Soeiro

João Figueiredo

Jorge Santos

Nuno Campos

Pedro Afonso

Rita Ferreira

Sara Pinto

Susana Oliveira

3D Visualisation:

Germano Vieira

Pedro Afonso

Local Office:

The Design Institute of Landscape

& Architecture, China Academy of Art

Architecture:

Liu Ke, Zhao Yaunpeng

Jiang Weihua

Engineering:

Structure:

Shentu Taunbing

Chen Yongbing

Hydraulical:

Zhu Weiping

Yu Xiaofen

HVAC:

Jin Guogang

Wang Yonghong

Electrical:

Chen Chunji

Teng Liang

Intelligent Desing:

Sun Mingliang

Sin Minjun

Acoustics:

Hangzhou Zhida Archit.

Science & Technology Co.,Ltd

Zhang Shanming, He Haixia

 

Consultants:

HVAC:

G E T –

Thermal Management

System, Lda.

Structure:

HDP –

Construction and

Engineering Projects, Lda.

Total Building Area:

16 000 m2

Model:

Alvaro Negrello

Photography:                  

Fernando Guerra FG+SG

Fotografia de Arquitectura

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