王国维美术馆（6）
桐乡
An exterior facade precedent for contemporary cultural architecture that reinterprets traditional regional pitched roofs and screens along a waterfront.
- What we like about this project
- Subtle perimeter uplighting washes the base, making the heavy tiled volumes appear to float above the ground plane.
Materials
- tile
- stucco
- wood
- glass
- stone
Visual identifiers
- waterfront-facade
- pitched-tiled-roof
- illuminated-screens
- stepped-massing
Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- regionalist
- civic
Visual tags
- cultural
- waterfront
- traditional-vernacular
- dusk-lighting
- civic-complex
- Geometry
- Symmetrical central volume featuring a traditional hip-and-gable tiled roof flanked by stepped lower wings along the water edge.
- Facade system
- White plaster walls with patterned fenestration screens and tiled sloping roofs.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam traditional framing integrated with modern reinforced concrete cores.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-building cultural complex spanning a wide horizontal frontage across the canal.
- Lighting
- Twilight scene with cool blue evening sky contrasted by warm upward-cast architectural lighting from the base and soft interior glow through screens.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and atmospheric dusk scene with reflections rippling across the canal water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront setting with a linear river in the foreground and surrounding low-rise traditional urban fabric.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a river view, the complex presents a composed monumental civic elevation softened by water reflections and ambient ground lighting.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal waterfront datum anchored by a prominent central pavilion and stepping wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular
- Program
- Art museum and cultural center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- tile, stucco, wood, glass, stone
- Visual identifiers
- waterfront-facade, pitched-tiled-roof, illuminated-screens, stepped-massing
- Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular, regionalist, civic
- Visual tags
- cultural, waterfront, traditional-vernacular, dusk-lighting, civic-complex
- Geometry
- Symmetrical central volume featuring a traditional hip-and-gable tiled roof flanked by stepped lower wings along the water edge.
- Facade system
- White plaster walls with patterned fenestration screens and tiled sloping roofs.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam traditional framing integrated with modern reinforced concrete cores.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-building cultural complex spanning a wide horizontal frontage across the canal.
- Lighting
- Twilight scene with cool blue evening sky contrasted by warm upward-cast architectural lighting from the base and soft interior glow through screens.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and atmospheric dusk scene with reflections rippling across the canal water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront setting with a linear river in the foreground and surrounding low-rise traditional urban fabric.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a river view, the complex presents a composed monumental civic elevation softened by water reflections and ambient ground lighting.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal waterfront datum anchored by a prominent central pavilion and stepping wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional vernacular
- Program
- Art museum and cultural center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture