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Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
- Area: 4970 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Eiichi Kano
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Text description provided by the architects. The folk art museum stands in the campus of China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Old tiles for both the screen and the roof came from local houses. Their sizes are all different, and that helps the architecture merge into the ground naturally.
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