YINGYAO Sandware Museum Complex

  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Architectural Design / Cultural
  • Company/Firm
    a9architects
  • Lead Designer
    Yuejiu Li
  • Design Team
    Li Yuejiu & Ale, Zhu Hao, Shen Xinyi
  • Architect
    Architecture Institute of ChongQing University
  • Interior Designer
    Architecture Institute of ChongQing University
  • Const. Company
    Guizhou Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
  • Location
    Yingjing, China
  • Project Date
    2021.01.28

The overall design of the Sand Museum takes full advantage of Yingjing’s regional culture and landscape and ecological background,and is conceived with a concept that stands out from the entire ancient building area.The buildings use a large number of solid walls as the facade design to highlight the thickness of sandware.The sense of heaviness makes the main body of sandware the only focal point of cultural dialogue,and the building grows in a way that adapts to the terrain.The open space becomes a communication stage for people to discuss sandware culture and study sandware craftsmanship. The building echoes each other through a naturally unfolding wall and the circular sacrificial kiln banquet building under the wall, creating a more shocking visual experience and space perception. At the same time, using the method of framed scene composition, on the visual scale of pedestrians, the visual space is expanded to the distant landscape on a large scale, like an expanding drawing scroll.