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No. 3 Blast Furnace Museum in China – design by CCTN Architectural Design Co. Ltd
13 Jul 2017
Shougang Museum
Design: CCTN Architectural Design Co. Ltd
Location: Beijing, China
Shougang Museum

No. 3 Blast Furnace is the first blast furnace museum in China, and also an inevitable result of excess capacity transition; it is a problem to demolish it or not, and more importantly, how to reserve it.

The steel museum in Essen, Germany is relatively small in volume, and it adopts the thought of applying no coating or simple coating of antirust paint; therefore, it is basically treated with a laissez-faire attitude. The blast furnaces in Mexico and Belgium have been thoroughly refreshed through rust removal, showing brand new appearance now. For the transformation of No. 3 Blast Furnace of Shougang Group, we believe that each piece of decaying paint and each inch of mottled rust of the aged but grand blast furnace is the product of that certain time in the past.
With the intention of creating an “amber” type of effect, the design adopts the manner of dust removal with high-pressure water guns, in combination with the local rust removal of grade ST2 and coating of transparent resin paint with 10% reflectivity (more than ten tests on rust removal methods and transparent reflective rate of paint have been conducted in 10 months), so as to faithfully restore and keep the ma...