Location: Beijing, China.

Architect: Vermilion Zhou Design Group.

The Song Art Museum is an art container that emphasizes the connection between the subject and object. The original Victorian-style architecture with Western-style gardens was stripped of all decorations to show its pure look. The museum’s aim was to make disharmony from disharmony, returning the building to its original context as a spatial container. The architecture became purest white after removing complicated symbols, and new corridors connected the extended buildings in several geometric shapes. The space allows visitors to walk through the whole space without any certain route and experience the messages the works try to express. The whole base shaped like a Chinese long scroll, and pine trees were scattered around the courtyard to give the external vitality of the museum. The oriental sense also becomes the natural rhythm of mutual attraction between traditional and modern architecture. The significance of the art museum is to present the art, and as a platform for displaying it, the museum’s definition is an ‘art container’, with ‘art’ as its mainstay and ‘container’ as its complement. The museum transforms everything into geometry, purity, and any kind of ‘contemporary art’ is welcome to enter, to vitality showing without scruples.

Photo credit: Photographer│Xia Zhi.