*패턴의 극치, 광동 뮤지엄 [ Rocco Design Architects Limited ] Guangdong Museum

중국의 오랜 역사와 전통을 파사드에 깊이 새겼다.
중국의 고대의 유물들을 전시하는 박물관은
건물자체가 기념비적 역활을 한다.
예로부터 우리는 특정한 장소에 기념비를 세움으로써
그 장소에 특별하고 고유한 아이텐티를 부여했다.
광동뮤지엄은 광저우시의 새로운 도시사업의 일환으로
그 역사와 장소성을 계승한다.

깊이 새겨진 패턴을 따라 들어간 내부의 공간은
커다란 아트리움 중정을 기준으로
다이나믹한 메스로 구분되어 진다.
또 그 메스는 갤러리가 되고 복도가 되고
휴게공간이 된다.

슈퍼메시브한 덩어리를 나눌때 건축가는
여려가지로 방향성을 잡는다.
일반적으로는 내부 조닝에 따라 덩어리를
나눈다. 특정 컨셉에 따라 혹은
친환경적, 구조적에 따라
덩어리를 구분한다.
하지만 이번 프로젝트와 같이
패턴화 하여 덩어리를 구분짓는
디자인 방식은 자칫 잘못하면
패턴화된 덩어리를 오너먼트로
취급 받을 수 있기에
더욱더 기능적인 공간, 구조에
부합되도록 더 많은 노력을 쏟아야 한다.
쉬워보이지만 결코 쉽지 않다.

The Guangdong Museum is one of four major cultural landmark buildings for the new financial hub in Zhujiang Xincheng (Pearl River New Town) of Guangzhou. Rocco Design Architects Ltd. was announced winner of an international invited competition in May 2004 and was subsequently appointed as design architect of the project. The five-storey museum has a total floor area of approximately 67,000 square metres.

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Conceived as an Objet d'Art at a monumental scale, an allegory to the impeccably and intricately sculpted antique Chinese artefact, such as a lacquer box, an ivory ball, a jade bowl or a bronze tank, which collects and reflects treasures of the times. The new museum is not only designed to house a great variety of fascinating objects of treasure, it is also in itself designed as a treasured object of great fascination that contemplates to become an identifiable cultural icon, giving the visitors a memorable tour and experience of the local provincial history and traditional wisdom as well as contributing to the appreciation and enhancement of cultural identity of the city.

The Museum’s spatial arrangement takes its inspiration from the legendary concentric ivory balls carving. Each carving slices through the box and reveals different layers and varying degrees of tranparency within the interiors, forming interesting spatial patterns and luring visitors through its exhibits inside.  The interweaving of interior space pockets also reveal the intricate relationship between the visual and physical connections and separation of the atrium corridor, the individual exhibition halls and the back-of-house service areas. This deliberate arrangement not only reinforces the clarity and coherance of the treasure-box concept, but also allow flexibility in planning and operation of all the exhibition spaces. In addition, each of the main exhitbition halls are punctured with random alcoves of dynamic spatial geometry. Filled with natural light and served as visual breakouts to the outside, they are also transitions between the exhibition halls which offer visitors initmate and well-balanced resting spaces.

The overall treatment of the main façade is also based on the analogy of ivory ball. Using materials such as aluminium panels, fritted glass and GRC panels, each elevation is uniquely designed with different geometric voids recessed into the building mass.  In order to achieve a smooth transition between the museum and the adjoining landscape, an undulating landscape deck is introduced underneath the elevated museum box, metaphorically symbolizing a silk cloth unwrapping a much treasured piece of artwork.

from  architizer