AIA UK Virtual Building Tour - Chongqing Industrial Museum

In December, our Virtual Building Tour series travels to Chongqing, looking at the Industrial Museum, a winner in the Emerging Practice category at the 2020 AIA UK Design Awards.

When: Thursday 10 December 2020, 6.30-8pm
Where: Online via Zoom
CES Credits - 1.5 LU for AIA Members

Speaker: Jee Liu, co-founder of WallaceLiu

WallaceLiu's new museum of industrial history has been created amongst the remaining structures of an impressive steel works in the city of Chongqing, China.  Enclosed exhibition spaces are lifted off the ground and nested within the skeleton of the old beams and columns to create a permeable ground floor, a labyrinth of open space, alternatively covered or uncovered, that culminates in a large open hall organising the building from the centre of its plan. The raised volumes that contain a composed exhibition narrative are linked by bridges at different levels where visitors are cyclically returned, through glimpses and framings, to the experience of the factory sheds. Wrapped in a pleated and perforated aluminium curtain, the building forms a flexible, blurred boundary with the epic landscape and industrial ruins of the historic factory site.

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