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Architects: Studio
Pei-Zhu
Jun 2008
A disappearing Art Museum Art Museum of Yue Minjun

On one hand, there are fantastic landscapes for Qingcheng Mountain, with
continuous brooks and wreathed mist
On the other hand, there are private art galleries, with extremely personal
art attitudes and contemporary features

When tracing back to ancient times and dreaming of future, we find two
contrary propositions that meet and collide in Qingcheng Mountain.
What type of architecture language can be used to tell such incompatible
and interesting encounter?

Not far away, Dujiang Weir, with more than 2000 years of history, has
been witnessing the thought of complying with nature and combining
human and nature and also fostering a special natural and cultural
environment for this area. In this project, we try to talk with nature
in an inheritance way and try to create a medium to overlap reality and
imagination, nature and technology, tradition and future which seem to
be contrary.

The art museum, located by the Shimeng River, is designed into an organic
form full of smoothness and diversity, which is like a cobble taken from
the river. A light metal coating is applied to this ancient natural form,
mildly reflects surrounding scenes and melts into nature, which is like
a piece of concealed clothes and full of sense of future, making the building
suspend over the ground and be like a flying body from the future. Therefore,
we present an art museum which features artists direct and affirmed
personal attitudes, participates in nature in a lost way and
starts a secret dialogue with ancient times in a language of future.

Project title Art Museum of Yue Minjun
Architects Pei Zhu, Tong Wu\Studio Pei-Zhu
Associates in charge Zeng Xiaoming
Design team He Fan, Jiao Chongxia, Li Yongquan, Fan Xuelan
Structural consultant Rory McGowan(Arup)
Photographer Fang Zhenning

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