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New design project for Qingzhou Museum (Buddhist statue art exhibition at the Longxing Temple site)
By : Suzhou Gold Mantis Culture Development Co.,Ltd / Zheng Jiang,Jiajun He,Na Yao,Guijun Zhu,Sheng Wang,Lingmin Che
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 16th edition
Discipline : Interior Design
Categories : Culture, Sport & Leisure / Museum & Gallery : Gold Certification
Qingzhou Museum is one of the first “national museums”, opened in 1989, with a display area of 7,000 square meters.
In 1996, a large Buddhist statue cellar excavated at the Longxing Temple site in Qingzhou unearthed more than 400 statues, which were named one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in 1996 and one of the 100 major archaeological discoveries of the 20th century in China for their well-preserved gilding and painting, fine carving, large number and long span of time. It also provided materials for the study of the history and art of Buddhism in the Northern Dynasties, and was hailed as a “major discovery that rewrote the history of Oriental art”.
The exhibition hall is located on the fourth floor space of the museum, with a coherent space pattern, which facilitates the creation of space; the form of curtain wall, which is both a challenge and an advantage, introduces natural light and uses light to do design on the basis of considering the protection of cultural relics.
The designer hopes to break the usual feeling of Buddha statue exhibition, and use modern design combined with traditional Buddhist spatial language to create a sense of ritual and mystery in the space. The site space is a U-shaped promenade with small horizontal dimensions, lacking the necessary scale of a religious temple, while the presence of a large number of sloping beams at the site also limits the design to a large extent. In the space treatment, the designer used the top shape to increase the thematicity and cleverly avoid the influence of the inclined beams. The space makes extensive use of axis symmetry to highlight the exhibits themselves and reflect the solemnity and artistry of the Buddha statue.
