Urban Planning Museum Design Submission
North East China
The Urban Planning Museum, envisioned as a landmark within the city, is part of an overall city plan in Northeast China to build seven municipal civic projects including a library and a scientific centre.
The museum is conceived to become a new civic monument woven into an existing governmental park. The connectivity to the park assures a wide range of visitors and gives the planning museum a very public forum to display the new design concepts being built in the city. The concept is to design the building as a sculpture in the park while pulling the park under the building.
The new structure floats above the park and orients itself towards the city centre. The orientation is further adjusted to minimise solar gain and solar glare; also all entrances are shielded from strong winter winds. The multi-layered outer skin provides shade for the building and provides surface area to coat the building in a series of photocatalytic nano coatings. These coatings are used to cleanse the air of pollution and organic materials. The cleaning reaction is triggered by sunlight. At night a series of near UV lights, powered by photovoltaics, illuminate the building and activate the nano coatings allowing the building to clean the air 24 hours a day. The building becomes a glowing technological blossom highlighting the progressive sustainable attitude of the city.
The building is planned and organised around a series of open flexible exhibit spaces. The open plan allows travelling exhibits to completely transform the space and to be organised using all or portions of the gallery space. The heart of the interior space is a large pedestrian ramp that ties all the exhibition spaces together. The ramp allows for a shifting vantage point from which to look out over the park into the city. The museum also contains a large theatre, administrative zone, and flexible office space on the upper floors. To further increase efficiency the body of the museum is essentially a large box wrapped in an undulating aluminum rain screen façade system. This allows the museum to become a balance of iconic gestures and functional efficiency.
team
Design Partner - Ted Givens
Architectural / Landscape Team
Adrian Yau, Peby Pratama, Audrey Ma, Ewa Koter
Architectural / Landscape Team
Adrian Yau, Peby Pratama, Audrey Ma, Ewa Koter
