Ateliers Jean Nouvel . photos: © Moment Studio
The start museum takes the renovation of the original historical building as the core of the design, integrating the surrounding landscape, aiming to create a brand new culture-leisure space for the citizens, which will surely become a unique cultural high light of the “West-Bond Culture Corridor”.
The design philosophy, which relies on the original building, based on the function of a museum, meanwhile maintains the original Nanpu railway station 18-line warehouse layout and the historical railway and train carriage, is to reconstruct the history of the site.
The museum takes art museum and its auxiliary functions as basic, combing bookstore, rest space and other leisure functions which is open to the public. Under the requirements of keeping the original building area (approx. 1777 sqm) and height (12 m), AJN creates a unique display space with full public participation: the large roof top platforms, which display art pieces, are architectural forms that corresponds to the industrial spirit of the site. The art pieces on the platform not only lights up the atmosphere of whole west bond, but also represents the most direct inseparable image of art and culture of West Bond to the river and neighborhoods, which creates the most direct dialogue between art and civic life.
The unique display type of Start Museum is a supplement to its art community, a classic exhibition space with extremely high degree of identification.
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