Background | Suzhou Wuzhong museum is located on the South Bank of the beautiful Dantai Lake in Suzhou, facing the Dantai Lake scenic spot in the north and the planned pedestrian block in the south. It has a wide field of vision and beautiful scenery, also faces the famous Baodai bridge across the lake. Lying in the waves on the long bridge, the water and the sky are the same, which is really a beautiful place in the south of the Yangtze River.
In such a site, how to make effective use of environmental resources, combined with site advantages, create a distinctive and dynamic site space, so as to present a museum building with local cultural connotation and harmonious coexistence with the environment is the focus of this design.
Design concept | combined with the unique environmental advantages, establish a good dialogue relationship between the museum building and the dantai Lake scenic area, and improve the publicity of the museum. Make the museum not only a charming urban cultural facility, but also an ideal place for people’s activities and exchanges, so as to improve the cultural quality of urban life in Wuzhong.
In order to integrate the scenery of dantai Lake as much as possible, we set the exhibition hall and other closed functional spaces on the south side of the building with poor landscape, and organically organize them in combination with the inward atrium space and courtyard space. The main public space of the building is arranged on the north side of the base with good landscape, and a continuous and free transparent interface is used to establish a good visual and behavioral connection with the external scenic spots, so as to make the internal public space clear, bright, pleasant and transparent, creating good conditions for improving the publicity and openness of the museum.
On the east side of the base is a landscape pedestrian axis, which connects the pedestrian block in the South and intersects with the Lakeside Park belt in the north of the base. An important node connecting the dantai Lake scenic spot is formed in the northeast corner of the site. The main entrance space of the building is located here, which forms a close relationship between the building and the external public open space and the scenic spots along the lake.
At the same time, the design fully considers the environmental characteristics of Wuzhong, especially the basic units of local traditional courtyard, determines the basic scale in combination with the space requirements of the museum, and organically organizes these units through atrium, courtyard and open space. It creates a spatial image like the garden of Wuzhong in the process of connecting the opening and closing, the contrast between the virtual and the real, the internal and the opening, and thus generates its external form of virtual and real coexistence and appropriate integration into the environment. The overall plane composition of the museum is like a seal of local culture in Wuzhong, deeply embedded in the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River.
At the same time, we apply the gardening technique to the design of Wuzhong Museum, hoping to create a situational architectural space in a unique way in the south of the Yangtze River. The interior and exterior space design of Wuzhong Museum interprets the typical fragments of Jiangnan gardens with modern architectural language. Whether it is the sequential organization step by step, the line of sight control skillfully borrowed, the spatial effect of seeing the big from the small, or the carefully arranged group by group, the picturesque scenery composed of bridge, water, bamboo and courtyard can let people find a familiar place in it.
