Our client for this project is a local who believes in contemporary art, and intended the museum to be a platform to promote young artists. The two main programs of the museum are for art exhibition and artist residence. In the design we sought a piece of architecture that is open, culturally rooted, and arousing a feeling of sublimity ? a noble condition of human instinct, which we believe, although through different means, shares the same purpose as the art it accommodates.

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Architects: Praxis d'Architecture

Location: Song Zhuang Nan Jie, Daxing Qu, Beijing Shi, China

Area: 4700.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Xia Zhi, Jin Fengzhe, Courtesy of Praxis d'Architecture, Zhou Ruogu
Project Architect: Di Shaohua

Design Team: Zhang Xiaodong, Liu Xing, Di Xiangjie, Feng Jiancheng, Feng Shuxian, He Feng, Wang Boyu

© Xia Zhi

From the architect. Our client for this project is a local who believes in contemporary art, and intended the museum to be a platform to promote young artists. The two main programs of the museum are for art exhibition and artist residence. In the design we sought a piece of architecture that is open, culturally rooted, and arousing a feeling of sublimity ? a noble condition of human instinct, which we believe, although through different means, s...