Architecture Asia Special Issue - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2020

HONORABLE
MENTION
Suqian Glass Art Museum
D-2
Conservation Projects
Architect:
HE Jingtang, GUO Weihong, MA minghua, HE
Zhengqiang, CHEN Xiaohong, WANG Liying and
WU Xiabin
Location:
Suqian, China
Commencing with an industrial context, site environment, and building materials, the design
entails narrative renovation and interactive displays used to build an experiential complex that
combines the history of the glass industry and the features of an art museum. “The journey of
a grain of sand” is the theme running through the building space. The use of a strategy for renovating
old buildings has enabled the cleaning up and reinforcement of the old industrial site,
thus preserving the entire quartz sand mine production circulation and relevant factory spaces.
The reinforcement maintains the dilapidated appearance of the old buildings as far as possible.
JURY CITATION:Starting from an industrial context, site environment, and building materials,
this project resorts to narrative renovation and interactive display to build an experience-based
complex combining the history of the glass industry and the art museum. The renovation of
appropriate intervention and natural mix of new and old materials celebrate the relationship
between the old and the new and the spatial-temporal collage of the glass culture, revealing
the historical marks to visitors.
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