Designed by Atelier Deshaus, Long Museum West Bund is located at the bank of Huangpu River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the wharf for coal transportation. Before the commencement of the design, a Coal-Hopper-Unloading-Bridge of about 110m in length, 10m in width and 8m in height, which was constructed in the 1950s, remained with a two-story underground parking completed as early as two years ago.
Photography: Su Shengliang
The new design adopts the cantilever structure featuring ?vault-umbrella? with independent walls while the shear walls with free layout are embedded into the original basement so as to be concreted with the original framework structure. With the sheer walls, the first underground floor of the original parking has been transformed to an exhibition space with the overground space highlighting multiple orientations because of the relative connection of the ?vault-umbrella? at different directions; besides, the electrical & mechanical system has been integrated into the ?vault-umbrella? structure. As to the overground space covered by the ?vault-umbrella?, the walls and the ceiling feature as-cast-finish concrete surface so that their geometrical dividing line seems faint. Model
Such structure cannot only shield the human body in conformation, moreover, the building?s internal space can also represent a kind of primordial and timeless charm while the spatial dimension, large or small, and the as-cast-finish concret...