MoAE – Huamao Museum of Art Education
YEAR
2014 - 2020LOCATION
Dongqian Lake, Ningbo, ChinaTYPE
CulturalDESCRIPTION
Small on the outside and immense inside.
A Museum must be big. Inside.
A Museum must be bright. Inside.
The Art Education Museum is a small Museum that is immense inside.
Leaning against on the hillside, its undulating form hovers above the ground.
It is intriguing in its elegance and in its mystery.
Nothing is obvious in this little building.
The public entrance is reached after passing around the form of the building and experiencing an imposed, absorbing compression, to then be released into a vast space, the full height of the building, where a snaking ramp links all the floor levels.
This exercise of compression and release is constant during the visit.
This diversity in routes and the interconnection of spaces makes this small building vast inside.
Its volume is equally challenging.
From the exterior it is suspended above the ground as it undulates in its metal cladding.
It reflects the ever-changing daylight that makes the form move and transform. Incessantly.
Inside, the introspective calm of the exhibition spaces contrasts with the movement of the visitors circulating in the enormous void.
Dynamism is taught through Art.
Size doesn’t matter, but a Museum must have a Big Soul.
Carlos Castanheira
DRAWINGS
MODELS
CREDITS
Architects:
Álvaro Siza
with
Carlos Castanheira
Office in Portugal:
CC&CB, Architects, Lda.
Project Coordinators:
1st phase (Schematic Design):
Luis Reis, Elisabete Queirós, Pedro Carvalho
2nd phase (Design Development / Construction):
Pedro Carvalho
Project Team:
Jorge Santos
Joana Soeiro
Sara Pinto
Susana Oliveira
Francesca Tiri
Rita Ferreira
Diana Vasconcelos
Inês Bastos
Luísa Felizardo
3D Visualisation:
Germano Vieira,
Sara Noronha
Light Design:
Alexandre Martins – GPIC
Portuguese Consultants:
Acoustics:
Filipe Andrade Santos
Local Partners:
Consultants:
Zhejiang Huazhi
Architecture Design, Ltd.
Local Management & Supervision:
Chunyi Liu, Architect
Office in Ningbo:
Design institute of Landscape
& Architecture – China Academy of Art
Engineering:
Hangzhou MJP Mechanical
& Electrical Design Consultant, Ltd.
Construction Company:
Zhejiang Wanhua Construction, Ltd.
Model:
Escala Reduzida
Photography:
©HouPictures
AWARDS
2021 – Awarded by the international platform Archdaily in the category: “Cultural Architecture Building of the year 2021″, Ningbo, China
2023 – Awarded the Sanlian City Humanity Awards 2023 – Architectural Contritution Award
FEATURED ON
Archilovers – 26/01/26 – MoAE
Archello – 05/25 – MoAE
Archdaily – Nominated Building of the year 2021 – 27/01/21 -MoAE
ARQA – 16/12/21 – MoAE
Archina – 16/07/21 – MoAE
TVI – 27/02/2021 – MoAE
Observador – 20/02/21 – MoAE
RTP – 19/02/21
Espaço Arquitectura – 18/02/21
Público – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Lusa – 18/02/21 – MoAE
RTP – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Expresso – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Observador – 18/02/21 – MoAE
JN – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Rádio Renascença – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Notícias de Coimbra – 18/02/21- MoAE
Visão – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Cultura ao Minuto -18/02/21 – MoAE
SIC Notícias – 18/02/21 – MoAE
Notícias Sapo – 18/02/21- MoAE
Hoje Macau – 17/02/21 – MoAE
Ponto Final Macau – 17/02/21 – MoAE
Rádio Renascença – 12/02/21 – MoAE
Observador – 12/02/21 – MoAE
Diário Imobiliário – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Público – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Porto Museus – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Cultura ao Minuto – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Sapo – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Visão – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Finalist Project of Archdaily Awards – 11/02/21 – MoAE
Room – 08/02/21 – MoAE
Archdaily / Best Architectural Projects 20 – 15/12/20 – MoAE
Archilovers – 13/12/20 -MoAE
Dezeen – 11/12/20 – MoAE
Visão -11/12/20 – MoAE
Dezeen – 05/12/20 – MoAE
Hoje Macau – 2/12/20 – MoAE
Elle Decor – 30/11/20 – MoAE
Azeméis Net – 30/11/20 – MoAE
NI Hao – 27/11/20 – MoAE
Designverse – 26/11/20 – MoAE
Archiecho – 25/11/20 – MoAE
Scalemag – 11/20 – MoAE
Divisare – 11/20 – MoAE
Afasia – 11/20 – MoAE
Hhlloo – 11/20 – MoAE
Archdaily – China – 11/20 – MoAE
Archdaily – 11/20 – MoAE
RTP – Lusa – 22/11/20 – MoAE
Porto Canal – 22/11/20 – MoAE
Cultura ao Minuto – 22/11/20 – MoAE
TIME 24 – NEWS – 21/11/20 – MoAE
Expresso – 20/11/20 – MoAE
Público – 20/11/20 – MoAE
TVI – 15/11/20 – MoAE
Diário Imobiliário – 12/11/20 – MoAE
Archiposition – 23/10/20 – MoAE
Wallpaper – 23/10/20 – MoAE
Archilovers – 24/08/20 – MoAE
Visual Atelier 8 – 21/08/20 – MoAE
Designboom – 29/07/20 – MoAE
Afasia – 27/07/20 – MoAE
Metacolus – 30/07/20 – MoAE
