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SANXINGDUI INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

As a continuation from earlier feasibility studies we considered many of the aspects discussed during those stages. The brief asked for proposals for a complex series of exhibition spaces, storage facilities and public gathering spaces along with developing a culturally strong identity to the building.

The Sanxingdui civilisation was discovered in 1927 in Sichuan, China and artefacts have been carbon dated to the 11th century BC. The bronze age civilisation created amazing bronze masks, some as large as 1.36m by 0.75m and bronze statues as high as 2.6m.

To house many of the artefacts, still being unearthed today,  we proposed a single story building which worked as an internalised part of the existing garden route through the Sanxingdui site, which included visiting 4 other buildings housing artefacts. By placing all facilities at ground level the roof was then easily used as outdoor park enabling a slightly elevated aspect.

Bronze as a cladding material was considered with an aesthetic which could naturally sit comfortably in the woodland park but also reference the collection of archaeological finds. Courtyards were again used as ways of providing daylight and spill out spaces to the large exhibition halls with easy access to the upper gardens by way of taller spaces linking both levels.

 

The taller components of the composition then became orientation elements, each with an individual identity, almost as if they were timeless sculptures within the forest.

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