Haiyan Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum is located in the core area of the ancient city, adjacent to the famous Jiangnan Garden Qiyuan. This comprehensive renovation project includes commercial retail, tourism lodging and landscape design. The overall planning is based on "inheriting traditional culture and realizing the new life of the old factory." The project includes three major visions:Forming a node linkage of "four parks and two museums."Inheriting intangible cultural heritage and realizing the new life of the old factory;Exploring the new mode of traditional culture and contemporary residence.The project is dedicated to building landmark business cards, creating public space, and providing a carrier for non-hereditary heritage and display.
The project is located in the core area of the old city, and the design needs to respect two histories. One is the long history of Haiyan: from the Ming Dynasty when the city was built to the Qing Dynasty, there were many gardens in the city and commerce flourished. The second is the history of the old industrial buildings of the original instrument factory on the site. The design adopts two strategies to echo them respectively. First, the first floor of the building adopts a gardening approach, preserving the original monument pond. At the same time, the first floor of the building is based on the spatial prototype of the Cherry Garden, and the ground floor of the site is strung together to form a historical corridor, creating a spatial sequence that changes from step to step. The sloping roof of the first floor is connected to the circular corridor, and the protruding roof creates an important eave space in the garden. This design strategy conveys a strong local cultural atmosphere while providing a rich spatial experience for visitors and citizens.
In the superstructure, the designer preserved the original building façade and skyline to the greatest extent in the most iconic central tower and only made functional adjustments to its interior to meet the needs of the exhibition hall. At the same time, perforated aluminum panels combined with casement windows are used in the facade design of the buildings on both sides. The original mottled façade is still visible through the aluminum panels. This design juxtaposition of different spaces and facade transparency between the old and the new is the greatest respect for the original factory, the memory of a generation, and a reasonable interpretation of intangible culture.
