MAD architects break ground on pingtan art museum
chinese practice
MAD architects have just shared with us images of their third museum, the ‘pingtan art museum’, which has just broken ground. with over 40,000 square feet it will be china’s largest private collection and when opened will exhibit over 1,000 pieces of national treasures. in addition to functioning as an important cultural institution, its location on the small fisherman’s island of pingtan is expected to facilitate the communication of art between taiwan and china. the museum itself is considered an island on an island, located in the center of pingtan yet only connected to land by an undulating pier, the project touches on the various symbolical expressions represented through the materiality and scale of each space. it is first conceived as a public space for the community, a bastion of the small island’s history within chinese ideology, and secondly a museum. soft flowing lines of reinforced concrete blend with the sand shells- its fluid form synthesizing the varied terrain: sea, land, mountain, oasis.
疯狂的建筑师打破平潭艺术博物馆
中国实践疯狂建筑师刚与我们分享了他们的第三个博物馆的形象，“平潭艺术博物馆，它刚刚破土动工。超过40000平方英尺，这将是中国最大的私人收藏，打开时将展出超过1000件国宝。除了作为一个重要的文化机构，其在平潭的小渔夫岛的位置，预计将促进台湾和中国之间的沟通艺术。博物馆本身是在一个岛上的一个，位于平潭市中心只连接到由一个起伏码头的土地，该项目涉及通过每个空间的重要性和规模为代表的各种象征性的表达。这是第一次作为社区的公共空间，在中国思想史上的一个小岛上的堡垒，然后一个博物馆。以流体形式合成不同的地形砂壳-钢筋混凝土混合软流行：土地，海，山，绿洲。(纯百度翻译）
