SITE & STRATEGY
TRADITION & MODERNITY
This project intended to be located in the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center. In Guangzhou city, there are a lot of cultural museums or public architecture in honour of history, but most of them are in the Yuexiu and Liwan district. Other parts of Guangzhou is lack of such cultural places. So the designed Linnan cultural museum is expected to improve the cultural atmosphere of the Panyu district.
MODERN
MODERN WORKERS
The site is near the central lake of the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, which is also surrounded by numerous modern buildings such as a stadium, a sports center and the student domitory. Additionally, there is also a ancestral hall on the island of the central lake and Linnan Cultural Garden located at the south of the ancestral hall.
Modern Tech
Modernity Earn money with MODERN TECH
COLLEGE STUDENTS
The strategy intends to connect the modern elements such as some modern campus buildings and the Linnan traditional culture which can be represented by the ancestral hall and Linnan Cultural Garden. It turned out to be an axis from the modern university campus to the tradional ancestral hall on the central lake. Along such an axis, people can enjoy the process of experiencing a change from modern atmosphere to traditional culture.
Modern Life
CONNECTION Strategy TRADITIONAL WORKERS
Traditional Items
Engraved with TRADITIONAL CULTURE Tradition The axis of the strategy begins from the teaching area behind the domitory, goes through the ancestral hall and ends up at the Linnan cultural garden. Besides the change of building height along the axis, a change in the culture and atmosphere is shown as well. On the two sides of the axis, there are also some modern buildings such as a stadium and a students activity center. These buildings act as modern campus factors led to our site by roads or pedestrian path and contribute to the change from modenity to tradition along the axis.
OLD AGES
Traditional Culture
TRADITIONAL
BIRTH OF MEMORY VALLEY
Modern Building
Connection
Axis
Devision
Accessibility
Function
Refinement
Linnan Cultural Garden Ancestral Hall
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