April 11, 2015

LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND DESIGN BY ATELIER DESHAUS




LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND DESIGN BY ATELIER DESHAUS




LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND DESIGN BY ATELIER DESHAUS
From the architect. Long Museum West Bund is located at the bank of Huangpu River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the wharf for coal transportation. Before the commencement of the design, a Coal-Hopper-Unloading-Bridge of about 110m in length, 10m in width and 8m in height, which was constructed in the 1950s, is remained with a two-storey underground parking completed as early as two years ago.
The new design adopts the cantilever structure featuring “vault-umbrella” with independent walls while the shear walls with free layout are embedded into the original basement so as to be concreted with the original framework structure. With the shear walls, the first underground floor of the original parking has been transformed to an exhibition space with the overground space highlighting multiple orientations because of the relative connection of the “vault-umbrella” at different directions; besides, the electrical & mechanical system has been integrated in the “vault-umbrella” structure. As to the overground space covered by the “vault-umbrella”, the walls and the ceiling feature as-cast-finish concrete surface so that their geometrical dividing line seems faint.
Such structure cannot only shield the human body in conformation, moreover, the building’s internal space can also represent a kind of primordial and tameless charm while the spatial dimension, large or small, and the as-cast-finish concrete surface with the seam among moulding boards and the bolt holes bring a sense of reality as well. The directness and simplicity resulting from this “literal” structure, material and space plus the sense of force or lightness because of large-scale overhanging style enables the overall building’s continuation of the industrial property of the original site, not only in time but in space.
The flowing exhibition space under the overground as-cast-finish concrete “vault-umbrella” and the “white box” exhibition space on the first underground floor are connected with spiral ladders downward. The parallel tensility highlighting the space,primordial but realistic, and the art exhibition from the ancient, modern and contemporary periods, has displayed an exhibition space featuring the temporality.
Photographs by © Su Shengliang

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ATELIER DESHAUS
Atelier Deshaus was founded in Shanghai in 2001.The principal, Liu Yichun was born in 1969, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1997. The principal, Chen Yifeng was born in 1972, obtained Master Degree from Tongji University, Department of Architecture in 1998.
While winning the architecture awards such as Business Weeks/Architectural Record China Awards (2006&2009), WA Chinese Architecture Awards (2006&2010), FAR EAST Architecture Awards (2010), Atelier Deshaus has been involved recently in major international exhibitions on contemporary Chinese Architecture in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Paris, TokyoViennaBarcelona, Brussels, Prague Venice, MilanRotterdam, Bordeaux, Cincinnati and Dusseldorf etc.
In 2011, Atelier Deshaus was selected by the international Journal Architectural Record to be one of the 10 firms in year’s Design Vanguard.
AWARDS
2012 - 2012 WA Chinese Architecture Award, Shortlist, for Spiral Gallery
2011 Year’s Design Vanguard of 2011, by Architectural Record (USA)
2010 Second Prize, 2010 CA’ASI Chinese New Architecture
2010 Honorable award, 2010 Far Eastern Outstanding Architectural Design Award, Kindergarten in Jiading New Town
2010 Honorable Award, 2010 WA China Architecture Awards, Kindergarten in Jiading New Town
2010 Best Architecture Award (Finalist), 2010 China Architecture Media Award, Kindergarten in Jiading New Town