YingYao Sandware Museum Complex

YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YINGYAO SANDWARE MUSEUM COMPLEX

A9architects

CATEGORY
Master Plan, Museum

LOCATION
Ya'an, China

ARCHITECTS
A9architects

AREA
13000 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
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LEAD ARCHITECTS
Yuejiu Li

MANUFACTURERS
上海摩索新型装饰材料有限公司, 成都丽彩美涂建材有限公司, 贵州建工集团有限公司

DESIGN TEAM
Ale, Hao Zhu, Xinyi Shen

THE CLIENT
Yingjing County Culture&Tourism Development Co. Ltd

STRUCTURE DESIGN
Architectural Design Institute of Chongqing University Liu Yucheng Su Zhiming Design Team

INTERIOR DESIGN
Architectural Design Institute of Chongqing University

YEAR
2021

YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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The black sandware art inherited for 2000 years, the art and wisdom of fire and earth were passed down in Yingjing.

YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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Yingjing County Silk Road Shadu Complex Project is a strategic measure to build a "National Eco-cultural Tourism Integration Development Pilot Zone and a National Comprehensive Tourism Demonstration Zone" in Ya'an City under the background of this new era.

Surrounding the core resources of black sand intangible cultural heritage, the design built a unique cultural tourism brand in the region.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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The overall design of the Sand Museum takes full advantage of Yingjing’s regional culture and landscape and ecological background, and is conceived with a concept that stands out from the entire ancient building area.

The buildings use a large number of solid walls as the facade design to highlight the thickness of sandware.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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The sense of heaviness makes the main body of sandware the only focal point of cultural dialogue, and the building grows in a way that adapts to the terrain.

The materials of the entire plaza are made of local stone and pebbles.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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The open space becomes a communication stage for people to discuss sandware culture and study sandware craftsmanship.

In the dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces, the local waterscape of the site becomes a dialogue medium between the building and the earth.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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The building echoes each other through a naturally unfolding wall and the circular sacrificial kiln banquet building under the wall, creating a more shocking visual experience and space perception.

At the same time, using the method of framed scene composition, on the visual scale of pedestrians, the visual space is expanded to the distant landscape on a large scale, like an expanding drawing scroll.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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On the other side, facing the distant landscape, the outer skin of the grid and the large-area floor-to-ceiling windows are used to form a virtual and solid effect that is surrounded by mountains and rivers in the overall perception.

The architects of A9a believe that the exterior wall that restores the original sense of sandware is both a tribute to the classics and injects new vitality.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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The local coal ash is reprocessed to become embellishments, reshaping the form of contact with the world to gain the current sense of belonging to the site. Returning sandware to people's daily life has become the main theme of this design.

In addition to functional layout and other practical significance, it also accommodates more content. The intention of natural environment man-made objects to be integrated into a whole is to achieve the ultimate harmony and unity.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
02 - Sections. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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04 - Sections


YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
01 - Basement Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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01 - Ground Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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01 - First Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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01 - Second Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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02 - Ground Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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02 - First Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
02 - Second Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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03 - First Floor Plan. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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03 - Second Floor Plan
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03 - Ground Floor Plan
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03b - Ground Floor Plan
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03b - First Floor Plan
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03b - Second Floor Plan
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04 - Ground Floor Plan
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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
01 - Elevations. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
02 - Elevations. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
YingYao Sandware Museum Complex
03 - Elevations. Image Courtesy of A9A rchitects
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03b - Elevations
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04 - Elevations


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