Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China.
Named Ginkgo Gallery after the ginkgo trees that cover the island, the contemporary art museum comprises exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a reading room and a workshop space.
Ginkgo Gallery is located on an island in Jiaxing
Designed as a small-scale museum and constructed with a minimalist use of materials, the 1,500-square-metre Gingko Gallery was intended to be different from the larger-scale museums that have often defined the past decade of the "museum boom" in China.
"Ginkgo Gallery is the antidote to the 'museum boom' phenomenon ? a humble, intricate museum where art and nature merge into one immersive experience," MORE Architecture said. Different sections inside the museum are connected under one curved roof
Located on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, eastern China, the museum design was informed by the typical layout of local villages.
By combining a free-flowing design plan with more traditional routed museum layouts, the studio aimed to both open up the curatorial possibilities and improve the visitor experience.

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"The DNA of the typical Zhejiang village, with its small scale and sophisticated network of spaces that differ in size, is the true inspiration for this museum," said MORE Architecture.
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