LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND DESIGN BY ATELIER DESHAUS
LONG MUSEUM
WEST BUND DESIGN BY ATELIER DESHAUS
From the
architect. Long Museum West Bund is located at the bank of Huangpu
River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the
wharf for coal transportation. Before the commencement of the design, a
Coal-Hopper-Unloading-Bridge of about 110m in length, 10m in width and 8m in
height, which was constructed in the 1950s, is remained with a two-storey
underground parking completed as early as two years ago.
The new
design adopts the cantilever structure featuring “vault-umbrella” with
independent walls while the shear walls with free layout are embedded into the
original basement so as to be concreted with the original framework structure.
With the shear walls, the first underground floor of the original parking has
been transformed to an exhibition space with the overground space highlighting
multiple orientations because of the relative connection of the
“vault-umbrella” at different directions; besides, the electrical &
mechanical system has been integrated in the “vault-umbrella” structure. As to
the overground space covered by the “vault-umbrella”, the walls and the ceiling
feature as-cast-finish concrete surface so that their geometrical dividing line
seems faint.
Such
structure cannot only shield the human body in conformation, moreover, the
building’s internal space can also represent a kind of primordial and tameless
charm while the spatial dimension, large or small, and the as-cast-finish
concrete surface with the seam among moulding boards and the bolt holes bring a
sense of reality as well. The directness and simplicity resulting from this
“literal” structure, material and space plus the sense of force or lightness
because of large-scale overhanging style enables the overall building’s
continuation of the industrial property of the original site, not only in time
but in space.
The flowing
exhibition space under the overground as-cast-finish concrete “vault-umbrella”
and the “white box” exhibition space on the first underground floor are
connected with spiral ladders downward. The parallel tensility highlighting the
space,primordial but realistic, and the art exhibition from the ancient, modern
and contemporary periods, has displayed an exhibition space featuring the
temporality.
Photographs
by © Su Shengliang
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ATELIER DESHAUS
Atelier Deshaus was founded in Shanghai in
2001.The principal, Liu Yichun was born in 1969, obtained Master Degree from
Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1997. The principal, Chen
Yifeng was born in 1972, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University,
Department of Architecture in 1998.
While winning the architecture awards such as Business
Weeks/Architectural Record China Awards (2006&2009), WA Chinese
Architecture Awards (2006&2010), FAR EAST Architecture Awards (2010),
Atelier Deshaus has been involved recently in major international exhibitions
on contemporary Chinese Architecture in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, London,
Paris, Tokyo，Vienna，Barcelona, Brussels, Prague， Venice, Milan，Rotterdam, Bordeaux, Cincinnati and
Dusseldorf etc.
In 2011, Atelier Deshaus was selected by the international
Journal Architectural Record to be one of the 10 firms in year’s Design
Vanguard.
AWARDS
2012 - 2012 WA Chinese Architecture Award, Shortlist, for
Spiral Gallery
2011 Year’s Design Vanguard of 2011, by Architectural Record
(USA)
2010 Second Prize, 2010 CA’ASI Chinese New Architecture
2010 Honorable award, 2010 Far Eastern Outstanding
Architectural Design Award, Kindergarten in Jiading New Town
2010 Honorable Award, 2010 WA China Architecture Awards,
Kindergarten in Jiading New Town
2010 Best Architecture Award (Finalist), 2010 China
Architecture Media Award, Kindergarten in Jiading New Town
