Kengo Kuma & Associates

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

Kengo Kuma and Associates

TYPE
Cultural › Hall/Theater Musem

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2015

SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET
Undisclosed

PHOTOS
Eiichi Kano (14)

LOCATION
Hangzhou, China

The folk art museum stands in the campus of China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou.

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside.

Our point was to design a museum from which the ground below can be felt, by continuing the building’s floors that follow the ups and downs of the slope.

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

Planning is based on geometric division in the units of parallelogram to deal with the intricate topography.

Each unit has a small individual roof, so the outlook became like a village that evokes a view of extending tiled roofs.

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

The outer wall is covered with a screen of tiles hung up by stainless wires, and it controls the volume of sunlight coming into the rooms inside.

Old tiles for both the screen and the roof came from local houses.

China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

Their sizes are all different, and that helps the architecture merge into the ground naturally.


China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum


China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum


China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum

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