David Chipperfield Archits designed the museum in Liangzhu China, for the preservation and display of Neolithic archaeology, completed in 2007. Levin Monsigny Landschaftsarchitekten landscaped this contaminated site to be suitable for habitation, with streams and hills. The building is mostly surrounded by a man-made lake. The visitor crosses this lake to approach the entrance.
The museum is composed of four long rectangles in series, 18m wide each but of various heights and lengths. They take the form of water features, gallery space, and open courtyards. The circulation path generally rotates around this composition. The travertine limestone on the exterior of the museum comes from Iran, a pretty unusual material for China, however appropriate as this is museum to Neolithic art and is part of a new garden city, called Liangzhu Cultural Village. Ipe wood greets the visitor at the entrance hall and balances with the stone throughout the building.
(猫猫的日记本– wikipedia/creative commons license)
(猫猫的日记本– wikipedia/creative commons license)
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(Zhangzhugang– wikipedia/creative commons license)
(Zhangzhugang– wikipedia/creative commons license)
(Zhangzhugang– wikipedia/creative commons license)
(猫猫的日记本– wikipedia/creative commons license)
(猫猫的日记本– wikipedia/creative commons license)
