China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum | Kengo Kuma and associates

Hangzhou / China / 2015

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The folk art museum stands in the campus of China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside. Our point was to design a museum from which the ground below can be felt, by continuing the building’s floors that follow the ups and downs of the slope. Planning is based on geometric division in the units of parallelogram to deal with the intricate topography. Each unit has a small individual roof, so the outlook became like a village that evokes a view of extending tiled roofs.
The outer wall is covered with a screen of tiles hung up by stainless wires, and it controls the volume of sunlight coming into the rooms inside.
Old tiles for both the screen and the roof came from local houses. Their sizes are all different, and that helps the architecture merge into the ground naturally.


[JP]
中国美術学院のキャンパス内にたつ、クラフト・ミュージアム。敷地はかつて茶畑であった。その丘の勾配に沿って傾斜した床を連続させ、大地と一体化し、大地を感じることのできるミュージアムをめざした。平行四辺形を単位とする幾何学的分割システムによって、複雑な地形をフォローするプランニングを行い、単位ごとに小さな屋根を架けることによって、瓦屋根が連続する「村」のような風景が生まれた。
 ステンレスワイヤーで瓦を吊ったスクリーンで外壁は覆われ、この瓦スクリーンは太陽光をコントロールして、ミュージアムにふさわしいやわらかな光を室内に導いている。
 屋根、スクリーンともに、民家で使われていた古瓦を用い、そのサイズのバラツキが、建築をより大地になじませる働きをはたしている。

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    The folk art museum stands in the campus of China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside. Our point was to design a museum from which the ground below can be felt, by continuing the building’s floors that follow the ups and downs of the slope. Planning is based on geometric division in the units of parallelogram to deal with the intricate topography. Each unit has a small individual roof, so the outlook became like a village that evokes a...

    Project details
    • Year 2015
    • Work finished in 2015
    • Client China Academy of Arts
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Museums
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