Guangzhou Oriental Museum

Project Name: Guangzhou Oriental Museum
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong
Project leaders: Yu Haiwei
Staff (design): Pan Tianyou
Staff (execution): Yang Lei, Pan Tianyou
Client: Guangzhou Oriental Museum
Construction Period: 2010–2011
Area: 7,140 m²

Architectural form

The main part of the museum is sedate and succinct, as it adopted the pure strip shape, spread along the mountain outline on site base; on both end of the strip, a 6 meters high metal box is hung, which act as the exhibition all for rear items. Before entering the exhibition space, through two complete turns of the ramp, people will feel the changes from outside to inside, at the same time, accomplish the psychological and physical conversion.
Interior space
The visiting circulation of the major part applies the "∞"-shaped ramp (working as the Gallery as well), links the exhibition hall and garden as a series. The exhibition space is surrounded by the ramps, which bring in a continuous display space. At the same time, at different space node of the gallery, properly arrange garden, courtyard, and sightseeing window. In this way, the process of the exhibit will be more lively and amusing, thus, the visitor will be fond of exploration/ discovery. 
Landscape
This site owns plentiful natural landscape, thus using the existing resources would be a reasonable way.
Inside the building, Manufactured Landscapes is the main substance. The space will be ample of change through rampencircled garden and cut-form courtyard.