Introduction
Located in the center of historical area, the site of the Museum is adjacent to the Imperial Kiln ruins surrounding with many ancient kiln complexes. Jingdezhen is known as the “Porcelain Capital” in the world because it has been producing pottery for 1,700 years. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jingdezhen exported huge amount of porcelains to Europe.
Reason to Be Selected
Jingdezhen was growing naturally fitting in the valleys surrounding with rivers, hills, and mountains because of porcelain industry. The early settlements of the city developed around kiln complexes which included kiln, workshops and housing. The street pattern was generated by nature and porcelain industry. Most of small alleys in between kiln complexes have always approached to Chang river in order to transport porcelain products to the river, the main streets have always been along with Chang river to bring all businesses and commercial together.
Highlights:
The Imperial Kiln Museum comprises more than half a dozen brick vaults base on the traditional form of the kiln, each of vaults is of a different size, curvature, and length. They were naturally applied into the site, carefully integrated with many existing ruins including a few ruins were found after the construction.Details
The unparalleled, liner, and arched structures of the museum, like old kilns, reach below the level of the street to not only give the flexibility to adapt itself into the complicated site, but also achieve intimate scale of interior space.
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This strategy – in part also a response to height of surrounding historical buildings – leads to productive ambiguity in relation to the building’s horizontal datum.
The “insertion” of the building into the ground of the site produces a series of public spaces at street level; also, more importantly, it allows for the design of a number of more intimate open vaults, and courtyards within the museum.
Conclusions
Most of those public spaces are covered under shaded, protected from rains because of hot and rain a lot during summer in Jingdezhen. One of those open spaces, two open vaults sited in both end, will also reveal the traces of the historic fabric on the site.
| Lat: | 28.44 |
| Lng: | 116.57 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | Asia |
| Scale: | District |
| Field: | Civilian |
| City: | Jingdezhen |