The 200m-long building is designed to resemble icicle or frozen fluid inspired by the local winter landscape, and contains two museums. The different exhibition spaces of each museum is connected by an entrance lobby in the centre.
MAD has evolved a design concept for the new museum, where a contrast between the elegance of nature and the speed of daily life is beautifully enacted. The dynamic and continuous form of the museum reflects and explores the relation between the building and the environment.
The interior of the museum has also been designed to complement the fluid form of the exterior. The circulation flows are designed to be uninterrupted between two exhibition spaces, which are linked by a central entrance. A host of skylights are incorporated to flood the interior with ample daylight. Drenched in natural light, galleries create optimum viewing conditions and scenic moments in and around the building.
The ‘China wood sculpture museum’ project constitutes one of the three cultural buildings that MAD was commissioned to design in 2009.
