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Guoshen Museum Building in Shenzhen
6 Oct 2022
Design: Rocco Design Architects
Location: Shenzhen, China

Guoshen Museum, China
RDA was one of three finalists selected out of twelve international participants in the international competition for the Guoshen Museum, part of an ongoing campaign to build new landmark cultural projects for Shenzhen. Commissioning the building, the Shenzhen Qianhai Development Corporation set three goals: the design should express the essence of traditional Chinese culture, reflect the unique character of traditional Chinese architecture, and embrace the spirit of Shenzhen as a cosmopolitan city.
With these goals, RDA submitted a design that reinterprets Chinese cultural and architectural traditions to offer a world-class contemporary museum for Shenzhen. The approach extrapolates the Chinese courtyard building?a traditional typology for public complexes?in three dimensions, creating a procession of layered spaces that blend interior and exterior spaces.

The proposed design houses the museum?s galleries in three interlinked, tube-like volumes that sweep across six stories. Suspended above the lobby and finished with scalloped walls, the galleries create a dynamic sculptural presence. They usher visitors up through the building in a sequence alternating between enclosed display areas and open gathering ones. Between each floor, the galleries ...