Designed by Atelier Li Xinggang, Located in the new district in the southwest of the city, Shangqiu Museum is designed for the collection, display, and exhibition of the local historical relics, the urban evolution and the cultural history of Shang Dynasty. The overall layout and the spatial sequence of the museum are the coherence and recreation of the typical forms and characters of Guide which represents an ancient city of Huangfan.
Photography: Zhi Xia
The museum is like a miniature of an ancient city with stacked main bodies of the architecture, suggesting the ?city on city?-type archaeological structure of the buried layers and the display and layout of the transition of location from the bottom to the top as well as the transition of history from the ancient to the present.
The main body of the museum consists of three stacked exhibition halls surrounded by water and courtyard of which on the outside lies tiered terrace and peripheral high dam (with outdoor exhibition corridors below). Buildings for relics, business and office form L-shaped volume locating on the northwest corner of the dam. Four gates are set for different directions with a main entrance on the south gate and the other three ones serving for VIP, temporary exhibition and office respectively.
Photography: Zhi Xia
After climbing the dam through major steps and ramps facing yanbo road, visitors enter the ?city? from the preface hall along the south approach bridge above water and then visit each exh...