Mu Xin Art Museum / OLI Architecture PLLC

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Jiaxing, China
  • Category: Museum
  • Project Team: Hiroshi Okamoto, Bing Lin, Fabian Servagnat, Steve Hopkins, Po Chen, Dongshin Lee, Muzhi Chen, Michael Zhao, Grace Kim, Michael Pryor, S.J. Kwon, Remi Bun, Jerry Lu.
  • Structural And Mep Engineer: Suzhou Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
  • Concrete Consultant And Mix Designer: Reginald Hough Associates
  • Lighting Consultant: Zack Zanolli
  • Acoustic Consultant: Xu-Acoustique
  • Fountain Consultant: Fountain People
  • Rockscape: Liu Dan
  • Text: Hiroshi Okamoto, Bing Lin
  • Structural Engineer: Suzhou Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
  • Mep Engineer: Suzhou Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
  • City: Jiaxing
  • Country: China
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Mu Xin Art Museum / OLI Architecture PLLC - Facade, Deck
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Text description provided by the architects. Throughout his life Mu Xin was a complex and inspiring figure. He was a celebrated artist of abstract landscapes and paintings, poet and writer. Our design of this museum is inspired by the complexity of the artist’s work, as well as his writing, which was shaped by his lifelong existence between cultures, both in his native and adoptive countries.  Mu Xin was not only affected by personal and external turmoil surrounding his formative years, but also by his detention during the Cultural Revolution in the early 1970’s and his self-exile to the West. Influenced by these experiences and his classical education, Mu Xin created space not only in the evocative multilayered painting of his abstract landscapes, but also in his writings. Through this work, the artist demonstrates the unfettered expansion of the mind within real physical constraints. The reflection of Mu Xin’s work is illustrated through the design of the building as seen in the series of interconnected floating rooms and the concrete exterior, which evokes gentle watercolor brush strokes.

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Cite: "Mu Xin Art Museum / OLI Architecture PLLC" 07 Apr 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/785110/mu-xin-art-museum-oli-architecture-pllc> ISSN 0719-8884

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