Building: Museum of Erdos
Architects: MAD
Location: Erdos, Inner Mongolia. China
Director: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun
Design Team: Shang Li, Andrew C. Bryant, Howard Jiho Kim, Matthias Helmreich, Zheng Tao, Qin Lichao, Yang Lin, Sun Jieming Yin Zhao Zhijian Du
Partners: China Institute of Building Standard Design and Research, The Institute of Shanxi Architectural Design and Research
Surface: 27.760 mt2
Constructed Area: 41.227 mt2
Status: Under Construction
Client: Erdos Municipal Government
Pictures: MAD
The Museum of Erdos is being conducted along with a whole new city center commissioned by the municipal government of this city as part of a new development center, designated a few miles away from the modern city and in the desert of Gobi.
This museum was designed by MAD, is being built in the center of this new plan and as you can see, the design is composed of irregular shapes as a concept intended to contrast with the masterplan designed by the government, as a reaction to a plan apparently does not give much life to its citizens. Against this, MAD creates a space that aims to differentiate itself from all that is happening outside, one of the ideas is to line the outer body sheet metal reflectors, which through the reflections on the irregular surface of another vision delivered the new environment.
The interiors are intended to become the new public spaces divided into several exhibition hall lighted from above through holes which in turn provide adequate natural ventilation.
