New Shanghai Museum Design Competition

㗊丘 Museum of Museums (MoM) New Shanghai Museum Design Competition Bo Cheng, Xi Guo, Dao yu, Qiaoqi Dai

㗊 is our logo as its similar form with interior space of MoM. 㗊 also written as 田 in LiJi, which means farmland, and it also has the meaning of "huge area around the capital"

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CONCEPT By achieving the key objectives of constructing “four centers” and a modernized international metropolis, Shanghai has entered a whole new phase of comprehensive urban restructuralization. With its strong cultural soft power and conformity to trends in international cultural developments, Shanghai has adopted culture as its key factor to upgrading core competitiveness.

A museum is always about to educate people. As a twin museum of shanghai western museum, this museum should collect Chinese traditional painting and arts. In Chinese history book, it is well know that Chinese painting and Chinese words are from farming, which is a kind of fruits of human working. This museum is going to exhibit these “fruits “of Chinese civilization, and if the site is also going to show a kind of history, it would be a natural respond for us. So the Rice field site and the monumental museum are integrated. Our strategy is combining museum and site together to educate people, and supply people an informal and memorial environment to learn and remember.

SITE STRATEGY

1 Accroding to the regulatory plan, the Shanghai library should be on the north of the block while the commercial function be on the south. There will be two large volumes on one block.

2 Each block besides Shiji Avenue is domained by one large architecture. Put commercial function under the slope to hide its volume. The present block domained by library only becomes homogeneous with the environment.

3 Shanghai Library forms a strip volume along Shiji Avenue creating forceful form to define its large scale. At the same time respond to surrounding heteromorphism architectures with the silent form as a mountain.

4 Towers rise on the west and east part of architecture to respond to the height of archctectures on both sides.

Architecture is lift up to encourage passing through.Behind ‘the mountain’is ‘urban farm’,surrounded by geography formed by commercial space to be isolated from the city.

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South Facade Museum of Museums (MoM)

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TYPOLOGY

CIRCULATION

In terms of typology,exhibition spaces in one single volume would fail to generate clear spatial images and good orientation for exbition spaces as big as 5000 m2.Because of their gigantic scale,visitors would tend to be lost while lingering through the endless exhibition rooms one after another.

MoM allocates different exhibition spaces in different volumes according to their topics. The cluster of exhibition "buildings" creates urban like space with appropriate scale. At the same time it's convenient to make zoning or change the exhibition without disturbing the other exhibition spaces.

Precise controlled relationship between volumes allows easy orientation and provide secondary garden like promenade routes.

Open exhibition spaces are formed in between volumes of permanent exhibitions, which provide generous spaces for contemporary artists to create artworks that will have an unavoidable dialogue with the ancient in house collections.

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1 Entrance 2 Temporary Exhibition Room 3 Cultural Relics Restoration Area 4 Second Floor Exhibition Room 5 Third Floor Exhibition Room 6 Reception of Office Area 7 Reception of Research Area 8 Office Area 9 Research Area 10 Roof Garden 11 Loading Area 12 Storeroom 6

Fifth Floor Plan Section

Third Floor Plan

East Facade

Second Floor Plan

South Facade Ground Floor Plan

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North Facade 7

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window facing the farm

exhibition room (forth floor)

exhibition room (urderground)

public space Museum of Museums (MoM)

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