NEW HORIZON
Protecting the building above the building site, the museum and exhibition building presents itself as a futuristic and dazzling prestige building in a new district in southwest China - in the usual ad2 architect-style, as always as a spaceship landed well on earth, drawing a strikingly memorable image in the city panorama.
At an urban green lung - theme park - the exhibition- and museum building rises up as a crystalline shaped building on its new city plot. Directly connected to the construction, a waterbased area with an urban beach character spreads, which is considered as recreation area for the residents and museum visitors and ensures a cooler microclimate for the surrounding.
The building appears to be stuck on the shore and hard with the reason. On closer inspection, it can be seen that it is already freeing itself from the ground in the basement and develops into the heights with the 2 great playable floors over the water level.
The slightly always in motion water surface ensures constant change on the mirror-smooth building envelope. The selection of the material of the facade is based on the architectural declaration of intent: a changing building character, usually standing dematerialized in space, with changing images for the viewer and giving the incentive to visit this place at different times.
On the entrance side, a large cantilever on 1st floor draws attention to the main entrance.
With great artistic commitment, the required load-bearing components form a nice open landscape - to wander through and form a rain protected public space for various temporary events.
This all-time accessible outdoor area represents the urban counterpart to the adjacent green zone park.
Because of an open, transparent configuration of the ground floor - the entrance-area with cityhall and shop as open 3 dimensional common spaces – are the exhibition-building and the landscape area behind two important urban facilities. They form an important dialogue and ensure economic synergy effects as equal crowd magnets.
