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UCCA Dune Art Museum
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DESIGNER |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Pure, simple and touching, the UCCA Dune Art Museum is a sanctuary for Nature and Art. Its design seeks a return to primal and timeless forms of space, and explores fresh possibilities for the experience of viewing art. Innovatively forming the space into a series of inter-connected, organic-shaped cells, and deliberately hiding the architecture under the sand dune in order to protect this fragile and critical natural component of the coast from the area’s encroaching real-estate developments, the Museum’s design is deeply committed to the site’s natural ecology and environment, and creates an engaging and non-traditional encounter with art and nature. |
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MATERIALS |
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LOCATION |
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TYPOLOGY |
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Main |
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ARCHITECTURE | Museums and buildings for exhibitions
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for cultural activities
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Realisation |
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2017 - 2018 |
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AWARDS |
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2019 |
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AZ Award Best in Buildings Under 1,000 Square Metres |
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2019 |
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ABB LEAF Awards Best Arts & Culture Building Project |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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Qing Feng, "Il paesaggio vince / Landscape wins", Domus 1031, gennaio/january 2019, pp. 44-51 |
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Clifford A. Pearson, "Cultural centers", Architectural Record 12/2018, december 2018, pp. 65-90 Aric Chen (text), Wu Qingshan (photo), "Castle in the Sand. A subterranean museum with spectacular domelike galleries opens up to ocean views", Architectural Record 12/2018, december 2018, pp. 84-90 (65-90) |
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"Dune Museum. Encofrado y enterrado. Qinhuangdao, China", Pasajes. Arquitectura. Diseño e innovación 147, octubre/october 2018, pp. 46-47 |
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7 indoor galleries
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STAFF |
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WANG Mengmeng, HU Boji, FANG Kuanyin, Joshua PARKER, LU Di, LIN Bihong, YE Qing, Steven SHI, JIA Han |
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Photos © WU Qingshan, ZAIYE Studio Video © OPEN Architecture Text edited by v2com newswire Courtesy of v2com newswire
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