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HOUSE OF MUSIC, BUDAPEST SOU FUJIMOTO
DATONG ART MUSEUM, CHINA FOSTER + PARTNERS
Datong Art Museum – a new cultural destination in China designed by Foster + Partners – has opened to the public. The building is a series of interconnected pyramids emerging from below the earth with the gallery spaces sunken below ground and surrounded by landscaped plazas. A succession of spaces dedicated to education and learning, include a children’s gallery, media library, archive and art storage facilities.
The entrance is via a winding sequence of ramps, which lead down into an open, sunken plaza – which also provides an amphitheatre for outdoor performances. Visitors enter at a mezzanine level that reveals an overview of the Grand Gallery, 37 metres in height and almost 80 metres long. Further exhibition spaces are placed around the museum’s perimeter on a single level. The four interconnected roof pyramids increase in height and fan outwards towards the four corners of the cultural plaza. Natural light enters through roof lights at the apex of each pyramid. The design of the roof creates a “vast, flexible column-free volume below,” said the architects. The roof is clad in naturally oxidised curved steel plates that “give a three-dimensional quality to the surface.” The panels are proportioned to suit the large scale of the museum, and their linear arrangement “accentuates the pyramidal roof form.” Foster + Partners added: “By sinking the building into the new plaza, the design relates in scale to the neighbouring cultural buildings, while maximising the internal volume.” The building’s passive design “responds to Datong’s climate”. High-level skylights take advantage of the building’s north and north-west orientation, while minimising solar gain and ensuring the optimum environment for the works of art. Sinking the building into the ground, plus a high-performance enclosure, further reduces energy needs.
structure nestled amongst the trees of the city park, the museum has been described as “an ambitious rethinking of a 21st century museum space.” Designed as a “continuation of its naturalistic park setting,” the architects used 94 custom-manufactured, heat-insulated and undivided glass panels to create a “completely translucent” facade which “blurs boundaries between indoor and outdoor space.” The building’s undulating roof structure, designed with nearly 100 crater-like holes in the surface, was inspired by sound waves, and varies in depth, allowing trees to “slip through” while channelling light into the bottom level of the building, said the architects. Granted BREEAM certification, the building is equipped with a “special heating and cooling system,” said the architects. Native and low water-intensive plant species have been used, and rainwater from the roof and green areas will be collected and drained to the local water reservoir and nearby city. The building will act as a performance venue, as well as providing a library, workshop and exhibition space.
The ‘House of Music,’ a museum designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, recently opened. A 9,000 m2
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