2021 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Dazhai Museum

Entrant Company

Atelier Diameter

Category

Architectural Design - Cultural

Client's Name

Dazhai County Government

Country / Region

China

We have always hoped to build a house that "comes from the site and returns to the site". The Dazhai Museum is an active attempt to follow this idea.



The task is simple: to build a museum with an area of about 10,000 m2 on the slope of the front three-way intersection of Dazhai Village with no height and location limitation (the property line is very large). Our strategy is to "organize the history of Dazhai, strengthen the memory of Dazhai, and interpret the meaning of Dazhai's struggle spirit in the new era".



We take Dazhai’s representative "townhouses" as the origin of form, extract unit arch space from "cave dwellings" as the construction motif, take "open flats" and "terraces" as outdoor plazas and landscape intentions, take local beige blocks Stone as the building material, utilize the unique combination of doors and windows in the village as the partition method of the curtain wall...Joint efforts to build a project roaming inside and outside, integrating into the environment. In addition to being a museum, it is also the center of activity for villagers to walk through and gather—it’s an "affectable big house". Imagine starting from the giant red flag printed "Learning Agricultural Practices from Dazhai", walking into this house, passing through stone arches, squares, and turning around and walking up the terraces, passing through the rich crops to the roof of the mountain. Amidst the breeze and the noise of leaves, a path of evolution from the history of red struggle to contemporary green ecology has been completed.

Credits

Chief Architect
Nan Zhang
Project Architect
Xiaoyuan Zhang
Project Architect
Runze Chang
Architect
Mengsen Li
Project Architect
Jinrong Xie
Architect
Shuting Chen
Architect
Xin Li
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