museum of contemporary
art & planning exhibition, Shenzhen, china
2007-
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Planning:
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix, W. Dreibholz & Partner ZT GmbH
Clients:
Shenzhen Municipal Culture Bureau / Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau
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DESIGN CONCEPT
Intention
Our proposal is developed out of the functional requirements of future
museum complexes and the integration of various innovative solutions for
a modern information center in which the application of environmental
building systems as well as optimized construction concepts are found.
It is an urban meeting point and serves as a dynamic element in the progressive
system of the city of Shenzhen in the middle of their new center, the
Futian Cultural Center. The building integrates itself in the language
of the established master plan and represents the discovery of an individual
exciting object.
The Museum of Contemporary Art & the Planning Exhibition (MOCA and
PE) are conceptualized as a unified whole but are nevertheless articulated
in an unique way: The various pieces are optimally positioned in the structure
according to their function, meaning and requirements. The creation of
the refined museum experience results in the formation of various public
and semi-public areas.
Urban Concept/ Design Concept
The form of the building is a result of a vertical extrusion and rotation
from the rectangular ground floor through to the roof level. A new entry
orientation has been achieved through this rotation to the axial center
of the cultural zone of the Futian Central District and to the main circulatory
flows. The resulting rotation generates a dynamic building in the form
of an active wave. By using black anodized metal and black glass, the
active wave is frozen into an urban monolith.
A large bridge is connecting the building to the Youth Activity Hall (YAH)
and sealing off the east wing of the master plan. In our proposal for
the YAH building the original geometry is both respected and simplified
to give a clarified reading of the overall volumes.
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Building and Circulation
Through the main entrance the visitor enters the light filled Entry Hall
that is a generous urban multifunctional plaza. Several functions like
cafés, bars, bookstores, museum shops, sculpture garden, and museum
event spaces can be incorporated into this zone. This generous public
level serves as a key turning point and orientation center, where multiple
entries and exits are possible. Deformations on the underside of the body
of the museum, above the entry hall, contain the Shared Spaces. The central
lobby double cone vertically penetrates the entire building serving to
bring natural light into all levels.
From here the visitors begin their journey with two possibilities: the
first being through the double cone into the museums (MOCA in the basement
and PE in the upper levels), the second being a promenading sweeping spiral
that circles around the double cone leading into the Shared Spaces and
connecting bridge to the YAH.
Both exhibition levels MOCA and PE consist of generous floor space and
allow for flexible and multifunctional usage. The double cone serves as
a fast connection between both spaces and provides an exciting transition
with urban views. In MOCA the double cone offers, in addition to the exhibition
loop, direct and independent entry and exit space to the individual museum
spaces. Daylight arrives via long lateral light gaps as well as from direct
overhead openings.
The upper level of the PE is composed of an independent truss system and
housed in this level are all of the offices along with adjacent Green
Zones and HVAC/Mechanical spaces. The remaining volume of this roof structure
serves as a filter for daylight, louvers, a rain retention system as well
as recovery of solar energy. The overview of the roof grid from the existing
adjacent skyscrapers resembles an animated checker board.
ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY AND BUILDING SERVICES CONCEPT
The exhibition spaces with their necessarily tightly controlled environments
are physically separated from the loosely controlled macroclimate of the
circulation and lobby spaces, so that these act climatically as a buffer
zone between the external climate and the microclimates in the exhibition
spaces, in which constant temperatures and in particular constant humidity
levels are necessary to protect the exhibits, which are in most cases
of hygroscopic nature and thus prone to damage on account of changing
levels in relative humidity. The multifunctional Grid-Roof serves a variety
of technical functions; daylighting for the Planning Exhibition space,
garden space (green planting to improve building microclimate), rainwater
collection, roof structure with sufficient height to avoid the need for
columns in the space, technical plantrooms, thermal collectors for the
production of warm water, photovoltaic cells for electricity generation
and a ceiling zone for services distribution and artificial lighting.
A significant proportion of the required lighting level in the exhibition
spaces can be provided by daylight. The Planning Exhibition space is daylit
using openings in the Grid-Roof, which allow controlled daylight into
the space, whereas the Museum of Contemporary Art space is daylit via
the Light Gap. The exhibition spaces are conditioned by an all-air VAV-system
(no water systems in the exhibition spaces). People are a major contributor
to the room cooling load and also determine the amount of fresh air to
be provided, so that the load dependant reductions in supply volume possible
with a variable volume system provide a large energy saving potential.
Supply air is ducted from air handling units located in the vicinity of
the exhibition spaces and delivered via floor displacement grilles into
the spaces. Return air flows via the light fittings from the exhibition
spaces into the suspended ceiling zone thus removing a large proportion
of the heat from the lighting before it becomes a load on the space. Combined
heat and power generators fueled by natural gas or possibly biomass provide
the building with both heat and electrical power. This solution has both
ecological and economic advantages compared to more conventional alternatives
(c. 60% less CO2 emissions) but also provides a major advantage with regard
to security of supply which for the intended building use is not to be
underestimated. The heat is used to drive an absorption chiller which
supplies chilled water to cool the supply air in the central air handling
plants. An integrated security system is provided including CCTV (close
circuit television) surveillance of public areas, full function access
control at selected entrances and lifts and central monitoring equipment
within a main lobby security/ reception desk. A complete Building Management
System (BMS) is provided consisting of multiple Direct Digital Control
(DDC) data processing outstations and a central management system.
STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION
General
The building complex is assembled of the cut museum cuboid, the steel
cone, and the massive base. The structure of the PE-Museum body consists
of a spatial triple-layered framework, based on four differently shaped
cores and one column of reinforced concrete. Additionally the structure
is supported by the steel structure of the cone.
Sandwich structure
The three layered spatial framework – Sandwich Structure – allows
large cantilevering building components. Compared to a single layered
structure, the advantages are a higher static level and the integration
of the upper and lower floors in one structure. Only where needed, the
upper and lower framework layers are connected through the middle framework.
To allow maximum spatial latitude the compound axes are reduced to the
very requirements of the structural load-allocation towards the distributing
and load-carrying elements (cores).
The lower framework layer has an elevation of 2.50 and a field width of
4.40 meters. The internal construction height of the museum space is about
9.50 meters; the elevation of the upper framework is 5.00 by a field width
of 8.80 meters).
Stiffening + Foundation
The horizontal forces are carried into the reinforced concrete walls of
the cores. Due to the oblique shape of the cores the loads are easily
led into the foundations.
museum of contemporary art & planning exhibition, Shenzen, China (2007-)
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Planning (Competition):
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Wolf D. Prix, W. Dreibholz & Partner ZT GmbH
Principal in Charge: Wolf D. Prix
Project Partner: Michael Volk
Project Architect: Markus Prossnigg
Design Architect: Mona Bayr
Competition Team: Christine Ausserlechner, Peter Grell, Jörg Hugo,
Matin Oberascher, Juhong Park, Angus Schönberger, Mario Schwary,
Brigitte Schwöllenbach, Anja Sorger, Markus Tritthart
Model Building: Paul Hoszowski
Photography: Markus Pillhofer
Clients:
Shenzhen Municipal Culture Bureau/ Shenzen, China
Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau/ Shenzen, China
Structural Engineering:
B+G Ingenieure, Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
Mechanical Engineering (HVACS):
Arup/ Brian Cody, Berlin, Germany
Project Data:
Site Area: 29 688 m2
Floor Area: 102 750 m2
Competition(1st Prize): 2007
Start of Planning: 2007
Building Costs: 257 Mio. € (2 729 Mio CBY)
Building height: 40 meters
Number of stories: 7
Max. Building length: 160 meters
Max. Building width: 140 meters
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