3 Museums become One form - Archlay made from Idea of Chinese Pottery

Arch-lay Crafted is Art Museum Complex in a pottery form by stacking three different museums into one form. This swiveled form relates to its neighbor to bring contemporary art with historical design element.

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Today’s Shenzhen is not just a modern city, but the merits of its geological location make it also a cultural melting pot.

The new public cultural and art center needs modernism to correspond the pace of Shenzhen’s development, yet practices the significance of cultural inheritance. Hence, the concept of our design is to explore Chinese traditional pottery art through contemporary methods.

Chinese pottery has a long history and has been world’s leading for long. This will be a suitable theme for the concept of the new public culture and art center. The process of pottery shaping is a metaphor for mixing the three different cultures together. They support each other during development and achieve high. Instead of building three separate buildings, the idea of “Three as one” is more meaningful.

Our design is not solely providing Shenzhen with a cultural landmark, but together with the adventurous and prospective shape of the design, the public center will gain reputation around the world and strengthen the cultural influences.

This design mainly consists of six parts, which are, from top to below, roof garden, art gallery, museum, gallery, public open space and underground parking respectively. The circulation of the public center is a simple composition of two patterns: the ramps which go through the whole gallery and museum and the vertical circulation. Visitors may choose to slowly walk along the ramp to enjoy the gallery, and then they will continue the visit to the museum by another ramp or the art gallery by stairs or elevators and eventually reach to the roof garden on the top floor; on the other hand, they can simply take the elevator and visit wherever they want. In order to increase the service quality and efficiency, there will be three sets of vertical circulation throughout the whole building. The three sets are located averagely and each set contains stair and elevator so as to make the visit more convenient.