Complete Shayang Rapeseed Museum framing the landscape with silence,
LUO Studio has completed a museum framing a landscape with a “silent” gesture in Hubei Province, China.
Named Shayang Rapeseed Museum – Archives and Site Renovation,
the 148-square-meter museum is located on Qilin Avenue,
and Shayang Economic Development Zone, Jingmen City, Hubei Province.
Described as an “integration of space with minimalist boundaries,
” the museum features a simple, square-shaped design with wide spaces and large windows for natural daylight.
Within China’s regional practices, regional design is still an evolving concept.
It includes the formal design of landscapes and local products,
as well as the coherence, preservation and development of local tangible cultural heritage and spiritual vitality.
Design features
Zuo Jing and his team invited Approach Architecture Studio and completed a series of regional design practices,
For exhibition space and related products for the domestic agriculture industry in Jingmen, Hubei Province.
After this work as an introduction,
LUO Studio was invited by Zuo Jing to transform the existing space of the Shayang Rapeseed Museum and renovate its site.
Current problems and transformation strategies
The original Shayang Rapeseed Museum consisted of three architectural spaces – the main building,
ancillary building (currently a museum shop), and Hui Xiang Fang (archives).
The main building and Hui Xiang Fang were independent buildings,
and the auxiliary building was the east wing of the Jingpin Oil Company Building.
As a result of the continuous expansion and unorganized construction,
the connecting space between the buildings was the greening of the public roadside and the gaps between the factory walls.
The museum’s original site grew widely and haphazardly without a plan.
Thus, it lacked structural integrity and coherence,
which consists of many interlocking and broken spaces between and within buildings.
The archives house and its location is a lively transitional area in the middle of the three,
and the building and site are more fluid.
To solve the problem of total separation of the exhibition space,
the design team rearranged the interior and exterior in a continuous and continuous manner.
In addition to adding the necessary functions, in addition to repairing the sealant and thermal insulation,
The designers organically organized the interior spatial relationships and various irregular landscaping in the corners,
Between the buildings to sort out small gardens and squares with different types of functions related to each other.
Thus, merging the unrelated parts and the inner space into an organic and continuous unity.
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