Естественно исторический музей камня компании yingliang

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• Area
  Area of this architecture project

  Area : 
  2600 m²

• Year
  Completion year of this architecture project

  
  Year : 
  
  

  2019

• Manufacturers
  Brands with products used in this architecture project

  Manufacturers :  Yingliang Stone Group

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  Lead Architects :
  
  
  Yingfan Zhang, Xiaojun Bu
  

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Text description provided by the architects. Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum | Rebirth of the Crystalline Space Over the years of stone mining, the manufacture has discovered numerous fossils. The manufacture decides to dedicate the headquarter building to a museum to tell the history of the fossils and the natural science of researching the fossil. There are two major challenges during the renovation process. The first one is the conflict between private headquarter and public museums. The second one is the direct sunlight gained at the atrium space. The addition of museum space will limit the deficient light to the office space even more. The archaic rock was first discovered at the crystalized base inside the landmass. Those crystalloids become how they look like today through a long term of high temperature, high pressure, mixture, and accumulation. The original form of the stone, its crystal structure, brings us a new architectural language.

We introduce three intersected crystalloids into the atrium space. The quadrangular pyramid light well stretches from the building roof to the first-floor ceiling to bring light into the first-floor museum atrium while the second-floor exhibition space and the rest of the office space are lite by the remaining portion of the building skylight, as well as the reflected light bounced by the tilted outer-surface of the light well. Surrounding the vertical crystalloids, there are horizontal ones that keep growing, inserting, and finally form into various fossil showrooms. The layout of the showrooms determined by the time and storyline. The horizontal crystalloids also introduce the sunlight to the interior space along with their growing direction. In all, the tilted crystalloids interweave the sunlight and exhibition spaces.

The finalized renovation appeared a form of a penetrated Cartesian grid. The orthogonal system of columns and beams transformed into each illuminated but mysterious triangulate space. As the heavy mass floating up, the anti-gravity space places the audience in an unknown space seemly coming straight from a sci-fi film. The inside and outside of the atrium spaces were divided into the museum and office space, while the interior space of the museum appears into a complicated inside of the crystal with endless growth. The archaic stones crystallized into different architectural spaces while communicating with the spaces as the exhibits across time and spaces. There is no other decoration within the exhibition space. The only element used to express the imprint of the eons of the deposit is a series of tiled walls.

This simplicity brings visitors a prepositional spatial, dimensional, and sunlight experience. The walls are not only the boundaries of different function, but also reformed into a calm and cold, cave-like environment, which make the geological fossil looks even more aged. The inner wall of the crystalloid is the ceiling of the museum at the same time. The outside of the wall functions as the reflected board of the office building, while it separates private and public spaces.

It is difficult to express controlled points in space through a two-dimensional Cartesian grid. We come up with a three-dimensional coordinate system for spatial demarcation, and the design was completely understood on the construction site. With the help of the total station apparatus, the spatial control points in the model were mapped out precisely in space, then construction becomes possible. The material used within the project is quite and sententious in order to highlight how sunlight touches the spaces and provide an appropriate exhibition environment to the archaic fossils.

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Address:Xiamen, Fujian, China

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Published on September 17, 2020

Cite: «Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum / Atelier Alter Architects» 16 Sep 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/946486/yingliang-stone-natural-history-museum-atelier-alter-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

The Yingliang Company in Shuitou (Nan’an County) in southeastern China, while mining a stone in a crystalline rock base, discovered a significant number of different fossils there, which it decided to show in its own museum.

The site was chosen for the headquarters of the company, while retaining its main function. For this reason, Atelier Alter architects had to not only fit the exhibition areas into the existing building, but also coordinate the new public program with the existing private — corporate one.

The museum occupied the space of a glazed atrium, so another challenge was to preserve natural light both there and in the office spaces — which was not generous from the beginning.

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The project is the introduction of pyramidal and crystalline forms into a rectangular coordinate system, which corresponded to the building. The main pyramid is inverted: it is a well through which light enters the second floor — into the atrium of the museum, and its outer surfaces reflect the sun’s rays into the offices, penetrating through the glazing that is not occupied by the base of the pyramid. Horizontally directed crystals form showrooms, while vertical crystals help direct light deeper into the interior.

The architects wanted to create the impression of a cool cave in order to enhance the impact of the exhibits, to give them an even greater sense of antiquity.

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Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum is located at the headquarters of a stone manufacturer in Xiamen, a coastal city in Southern China. Over years of stone mining, the manufacturer has established a private archeological team to discover numerous fossils, which they decided to house in a museum. The project transforms the principal of stone dissection, which is specific to stone mining, into a spatial division mechanism, to cut the cubical space accordingly. The project sticks to only one architecture element—the wall—to keep its consistency and authenticity. The museum elevates industry to an “industry and culture” approach.