Jiashan Museum & Library Building, Zhejiang Cultural Centre, Contemporary Chinese Architecture Photos
Jiashan Museum & Library in Zhejiang
15 Jun 2021
Jiashan Museum & Library
Architects: The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University
Location: Jiashan, Zhejiang, China

Jiashan Museum & Library is a cultural complex, which is intended to offer local citizens a public cultural activity venue and to greatly enhance the cultural vitality of the county.

With a limited plot area, the project lacks space to accommodate a large-capacity outdoor public activity venue. The site is adjacent to an open urban landscape space, which is under planning but the construction has been postponed. Therefore, the architects had to explore and conceive architectural spaces within the plot.
Based on site conditions, the architects took the open void at the middle as the core, and combined three architectural volumes around it to enclose a square for the crowd, which is also an outdoor extension of the foyers of the library and museum.

The square provides resting space for citizens, while also connecting the museum and library. Moreover, it serves diversified public activities such as outdoor exhibition, pop-up book market, etc., fully embodying the functions and image of an urban “knowledge hall and cultural living room”.

The three building volumes are arranged at appropriate positions according to their respective functions. The ...