Project Location：Times Rose Garden, Guangzhou, China

Floor Area：3,122 sqm      Building Area：3,122 sqm

Design Period：2005—2006 architecture；2007 interior

Status: Built                      Category: Cultural and Educational

We focus on the contradictory factors of the building functionalities during the existing urbanization process, i.e. singularity vs. diversity, simplicity vs. complexity, privacy vs. public.

In this art museum project, we try to make our efforts to create harmony in an alternative way by designing and creating conflicts between functions and building types.

To meet the demands for space of production of art works, the design emphasize more on the diversity of art creation rather than general display space. This architecture design is a toolbox while art museum could use it as to provide support, collaboration and display for the production process of art works in most extensive sense. Public spaces of the art museum are scattered and embedded into several levels of this typical residential building to bring the largest extent of diversity to the general prototype of modern Chinese commercial residents. An interesting phenomenon is many Chinese metropolitans are building such a prototype unanimously and extensively. Cities are expanding to their peripheries in a single type (residential buildings) with very little public facilities. These isolated residential projects add pressures to urban transportation and worsen the congestion of traffic trunks. This phenomenon exists in every Chinese city.

An integration of art museum and an otherwise completely residential building is an example we want to set to prove that there is no reason to build only residential projects in peripheries of Chinese cities and residential communities are able to accommodate commercial, cultural and social contents in urban life.