南京四方美术馆丨中国南京丨Steven Holl Architects,南京大学建筑设计研究院

Nanjing Sifang Art Museum

Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

The new museum is sited at the gateway to the Contemporary International Practical Exhibition of Architecture in the lush green landscape of the Pearl Spring near Nanjing, China. The museum explores the shifting viewpoints, layers of space, and expanses of mist and water, which characterize the deep alternating spatial mysteries of early Chinese painting.

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The museum is formed by a “field” of parallel perspective spaces and garden walls in black bamboo-formed concrete over which a light “figure” hovers. The straight passages on the ground level gradually turn into the winding passage of the figure above. The upper gallery, suspended high in the air, unwraps in a clockwise turning sequence and culminates at “in-position” viewing of the city of Nanjing in the distance. The meaning of this rural site becomes urban through this visual axis to the great Ming Dynasty capital city, Nanjing.

The courtyard is paved in recycled Old Hutong bricks from the destroyed courtyards in the center of Nanjing. Limiting the colors of the museum to black and white connects it to the ancient paintings, but also gives a background to feature the colors and textures of the artwork and architecture to be exhibited within. Bamboo, previously growing on the site, has been used in bamboo- formed concrete, with a black penetrating stain. The Museum has geothermal cooling and heating, and recycled storm water.

Client

Nanjing Foshou Lake Architecture and Art Developments Ltd

Location

Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

Years

2003–2013

Size

30,000 sq ft

Status

Complete

architect

Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl, Li Hu (design architect)

Li Hu (partner in charge)

Hideki Hirahara (associate-in-charge)

Clark Manning, Daijiro Nakayama (project architect)

Joseph Kan, JongSeo Lee, Pei Shyun Lee, Tz-Li Lin, Richard Liu, Sarah Nichols (project team)

Architectural Design Institute, Nanjing University

structural consultant

Guy Nordenson and Associates

lighting design

L'Observatoire International

Timeline

Sifang Art Museum shortlisted in 2015 Leading Culture Destinations Awards

October 6, 2015

Steven Holl Architects presents two films on the Sifang Art Museum

March 11, 2014

Steven Holl Architects celebrates the opening of the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing

November 2, 2013

Nanjing Sifang Art Museum to Open on November 2

October 23, 2013

Contemporary Art & Architecture Museum by Steven Holl Architects breaks ground in Nanjing.

February 1, 2005