Object | Form making and scale | Local materials and nature of enclosing surfaces | Traditional technologies | → | Religious teachings, cultural traditions |
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Ningbo Historic Museum |
– cracks in a monolithic form that resemble surrounding mountains; – enlarged scale providing communication with surrounding landscape; |
– brick and tile from villages destroyed in this place; – bamboo for formwork; |
– local “wapan” technology based on the use of building materials from destroyed buildings; |
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– resource saving as a traditional virtue; |
Xinjin Zhi Museum in Chengdu |
– spiral shape organizing upward movement; |
– tiles made according to traditional technology; – use of natural water surface near the building; |
– traditional technology of roof tiles production; |
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– clear stagnant water, in Buddhism symbolizes contemplative perception; |
Folk-art galleries for China Academy of Arts |
– resembles the relief of a hill on which the building is located; – a block model with individual pitched roofs interprets traditional village; – a scale of rural buildings; |
– local tiles from destroyed old buildings; |
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– relationship with environment, unity with nature that corresponds to Taoism; |
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Museum of Handcraft Paper |
– broken roof shapes that are identical to surrounding hilly area; – space-planning solution interprets traditional rural house; – scale of rural buildings; |
– local materials: wood, bamboo, handmade paper, volcanic stone; |
– the system of wooden structures traditional for this region; |
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– relationship with environment, unity with nature that corresponds to Taoism; |
My Xin Art Museum in Wuzhen |
– parallel epipeds interconnected in sections remind city blocks; – the scale is coordinated with the nature of historical urban area; |
– texture of wooden boards on a concrete surface; |
– a traditional way of buildings' location on the water; |
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– in Buddhism water surface near the building personifies eternal flow of material world, and its transparency symbolizes contemplative perception; |