Platinum yue day better life museum of art

CIFI Boyue Tianning Life Art Museum in Changzhou is a 2,600-square-metre demonstration landscape and building designed by WaterStone Design's Third Design Department, with landscape by L&A, interiors by Horizontal Design and facade consultancy by Shanghai Anlei. Changzhou has been a key Jiangnan town since antiquity, carrying people's emotional attachment to Jiangnan architecture. The site has two constraints: it sits within a dense high-rise cluster with limited land, and it must first serve as a sales centre before converting into a community centre. The architects reconsidered the relationship between building and site and took Jiangnan-style dwelling as their starting point, which exists on two levels: the folk house composed of roof, courtyard and wall, and the Jiangnan garden, which is simultaneously house and courtyard, and can be viewed, played in and inhabited. The single-route demonstration sequence naturally parallels the strolling path of a Jiangnan garden, and the designers orchestrate view changes through walls, water and skylight so that visitors move unawares between scenes and experience traditional Jiangnan dwelling. Entry passes through a bamboo grove that cuts off the city; two abstracted walls and a stone bridge then announce the threshold between house and garden. The main model-display space shifts between walls and daylight, evoking the auxiliary side-lanes (beinong) of traditional mansions but presented in a more interesting way. Rather than competing on spectacle, the team wanted the sales centre to express the future community's sense of place and become an ideal, warm clubhouse; in future operation, the front forecourt will be removed, leaving four exhibition halls that can become a small museum or community art gallery. Interior lighting and materials are therefore designed to gallery standards, with the four halls deliberately given four different daylight conditions. Jiangnan folk architecture is treated as an assemblage of single-material components white walls, stone-tile floors, timber roofs, skylights, water and in this project the building is broken into components, each finished in a single coherent material, so that the art of assembly itself becomes the design focus. The wider development covers 149,000 square metres; the demonstration zone was designed in 2018 and built in 2019.