Sanxingdui Museum, Guanghan City, Sichuan Public Building, Chinese Architecture Photos
Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City
17 Feb 2022
Design: MAD Architects
Location: Sichuan, China

Sanxingdui Museum, China
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has unveiled the design of their latest project; ?The Eyes of Sanxingdui? for the Sanxingdui Ancient Shu Cultural Heritage Museum. The project sees MAD place a cluster of scattered wooden structures above the dense greens and clear waters of the ancient landscape.

The new buildings merge with the existing landscape to form a new environment, which simultaneously celebrates the ancient mysteries of the Sanxingdui civilization and connects with the area?s timeless natural environment through a restrained, humble volume. The result is a park which acts as an urban and cultural public space where humanity and nature, the past and the future, can converge.
The project site is located in the western area of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province. Filled with unearthed cultural relics dating from approximately 4500-2800 years ago, the site?s archaeology is rooted in the echoes of ancient cities, ancient states, and the ancient Shu culture of southwest China. The Sanxingdui site has jointly applied with the nearby Jinsha site to be recognized as a world cultural heritage site by UNESCO.

As humans, we find intrigue in the unknown and the mysterious. The global fascination with Sanxingdui lies in how little the wider world can comprehend about the...