Ningbo History Museum

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Ningbo History Museum

Key Sustainability aspects

vernacular building strategies, public spaces, accessability for disabled, renewable building materials,

recycling and reuse, ecological building materials, innovative bulding materials, integrated planningprocess, participation of users in planning process, low cost design, use of innovative design tools

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Social and ethical responsibility

A large amount of the local materials from the dismantling of the old buildings were used for theconstruction of the museum, which responses to the phenomenon of massive deconstruction and

construction in the process of urbanization in China.
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Ressource efficiency and environmental impact

The plan of the building is set in a assembled manner in order to reduce as much as possible theoccupying of the land and leave as much as possible the land to the urban landscape. The main structureis steel and concrete framed; some parts are prestressed concrete of large-span structure. The change

of the shape is determined by the limited structural suspended beams. The columns are strictlyarranged with single discipline, which optimizes the structural design, reduces the cost and acceleratesthe construction process.

Economic lifecycle perfomance

A large amount of recycled traditional bricks and tiles are used on the exterior wall of the building,which reflect the sustainable advanced culture tendency and the theme of ecology and culture

amalgamation.

Contextual performance and impact

The appearance of the building derives from hill and valley; it includes various slight incline changes andinspire people to associate with the space and scale of Ningbo local traditional villages.The 1:1recovery of the Tuoshanyan of Tang Dynasty becomes the access way to the main entrance ofthe building. Tanshanyan is the earliest heritage of the localized cultural antiquity, symbolizes thehistoric point.The skin of the building is "Wa Pan"wall, which represents the local architectural technique(the typologyof brick layers with local characteristics). Taking into consideration of the structural mechanicsrequirement for the 23.95meters height, the wall was laid with various changes, recalling the memory ofthe Jiangnan ancient city and direct association of the historical layer sections anthropologically of the

viewers.

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong


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