Sino-Ocean Group has hired Wutopia Lab to design a monologue art museum for an endless minority of people who desire to be free from worldly distractions. The museum will be located on the park green of SEATOPIA in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao. July 2022 saw its completion and public opening. By slicing cowhide into tiny strips and encircling a plot of ground, Queen Dido built the mighty Carthage. I divided the 1,300-square-meter building into various monoliths paired with walls, corridors, and ambiguous spaces to create the 3,600-square-meter Monologue Art Museum, which is situated in an open green area at the crossroads of three residential clusters on the Weilan Coast campus.
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Monologue Art Museum’s Design Concept An Even Greater Charm.
Side A: The Monologue Museum is a scroll of hands that progressively unfolds. Beginning at the tiny entrance theater, where light streams in from the corners, and moving through the colorful yoga room and into the bright art gallery (which houses the exhibition and painting rooms), the peaceful water courtyard gradually becomes visible as you walk along the open corridor with changing lighting. Then the route narrows, and the light fades, almost making you miss the tearoom tucked behind the wall. There’s a dancing studio at the end. After leaving the building, you walk along the flower wall and into the shaded area where the water is wading. Seemingly headed towards the sea, the water flows through the middle ...