• "Name of lead designer: Ju Bin Company: Horizontal Design Title: Chief Creative Design Director E-mail: [email protected] TEL: +86 0755 82879961"

  • "Name of lead designer: Ju Bin Company: Horizontal Design Title: Chief Creative Design Director E-mail: [email protected] TEL: +86 0755 82879961"

  • "Name of lead designer: Ju Bin Company: Horizontal Design Title: Chief Creative Design Director E-mail: [email protected] TEL: +86 0755 82879961"

  • "Name of lead designer: Ju Bin Company: Horizontal Design Title: Chief Creative Design Director E-mail: [email protected] TEL: +86 0755 82879961"

  • "Name of lead designer: Ju Bin Company: Horizontal Design Title: Chief Creative Design Director E-mail: [email protected] TEL: +86 0755 82879961"

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2020 WAN Awards entry: Zhang Yan Cultural Museum - Horizontal Design

Zhang Yan Cultural Museum by Horizontal Design is an entry in the Civic Category of the 2020 WAN Awards

by Copy taken from 2020 entry 18 June 2020 2020

Zhang Yan Village is located in Chonggu Town, in the western suburbs of Shanghai.“Preservation, Growth, and Expansion” is our strategy for the renovation and rehabilitation of Zhang Yan Village and other similar villages in China. It does not aim to dominate and reconstruct, nor to repair the old as old. Rather, it strives to follow the development and context of history, to put contemporary needs and consciousness into the village, to reorganize the layout, program the commercial ecology, and to create a dialogue between the new and the old.

Preservation: Old buildings embody the history and culture of the ancient village. They must remain and be improved by means of reinforcement and preservation.

Growth: For the dilapidated buildings whose interior space is no longer available, “cleaning up” the broken parts effectively retain the functional ones. Growing naturally out of its context, the “new” can therefore coexist with the “old.”

Reproduction: The new buildings represent a new era and, specifically, new functions. The museum features several contemporary buildings, constructed on the vacant parts of the site.

Exhibition halls of the Cultural Museum consists of three spaces of unique characteristic with a water patio. All the new constructions are white concrete to respond to the painted light grey of the neighboring walls.

All the information about how to enter the 2020 WAN Awards is here.  

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Last year more than 40 countries took part in the WAN Awards with strong showings from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. And we saw some truly outstanding projects, take a look at the winners from last year here.


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