Ningbo History Museum

Key Sustainability aspects

vernacular building strategies, public spaces, accessability for disabled, renewable building materials,
recycling and reuse, ecological building materials, innovative bulding materials, integrated planning
process, participation of users in planning process, low cost design, use of innovative design tools
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Social and ethical responsibility
A large amount of the local materials from the dismantling of the old buildings were used for the
construction of the museum, which responses to the phenomenon of massive deconstruction and
construction in the process of urbanization in China.

Ressource efficiency and environmental impact

The plan of the building is set in a assembled manner in order to reduce as much as possible the
occupying of the land and leave as much as possible the land to the urban landscape. The main structure
is steel and concrete framed; some parts are prestressed concrete of large-span structure. The change
of the shape is determined by the limited structural suspended beams. The columns are strictly
arranged with single discipline, which optimizes the structural design, reduces the cost and accelerates
the construction process.
Economic lifecycle perfomance
A large amount of recycled traditional bricks and tiles are used on the exterior wall of the building,
which reflect the sustainable advanced culture tendency and the theme of ecology and culture
amalgamation.
Contextual performance and impact
The appearance of the building derives from hill and valley; it includes various slight incline changes and
inspire people to associate with the space and scale of Ningbo local traditional villages.
The 1:1recovery of the Tuoshanyan of Tang Dynasty becomes the access way to the main entrance of
the building. Tanshanyan is the earliest heritage of the localized cultural antiquity, symbolizes the
historic point.
The skin of the building is "Wa Pan"wall, which represents the local architectural technique(the typology
of brick layers with local characteristics). Taking into consideration of the structural mechanics
requirement for the 23.95meters height, the wall was laid with various changes, recalling the memory of
the Jiangnan ancient city and direct association of the historical layer sections anthropologically of the
viewers.

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong

Photographer: Lv Hengzhong