PROJECT

DESCRIPTION

The project is located in the eastern region of the original French Garden on the west side of the Haihe River in Tianjin in 1890. As a historical building, this piece of land, known as "Oriental Wall Street", has become an important mark of Tianjin's industrialization and livelihood process. The design will bring it back to life, and the Meigu Garden project will become the most representative symbol of the revival of urban civilization in the city, an engraving and extension of the city's memory, and will resonate with the surrounding historical buildings in the future.Through the interpretation of the historic residence in Heping District, WAD design team dig deeply into the design advantages and value of the local historic district, and carefully read the pursuit of the charm and quality of the old buildings in the historic district. Draw inspiration from the relevant design, incubate the French style base, modern interpretation of new works. They create a set of urban leisure, art exhibitions, personality salon in one, always immersed in the artistic atmosphere, free and romantic field.In the overall space planning of the art museum, the WAD design team used combination of connecting space and landscape of the original building, abandoned the central open main entrance, and planned a semi-outdoor corridor to transition from the hustle and bustle of the city through the connecting space. Outdoor landscaping creates a closer connection. It presents a sense of progressive order, allowing people inside to integrate with the environment during the tour, just like entering the hall of an old mansion, forming a field for communication and dialogue with this historical district.The interior space and functional organization of the museum draw inspiration from the open plane layout of the 19th Fifth Avenue block, extending a number of changable and flexible interactive group lines, in which various themes are interspersed, combining furnishings and exhibits to form a unique and fascinating immersive experience. The rich decorative elements in some famous mansions on the Fifth Avenue contain many stories, such as beautifully carved wallboards, wooden doors, fireplaces, iron railings with grass patterns, etched glass with classical craftsmanship, and so on. It is strongly told with a very romantic feature. The red in the space is particularly dazzling, blending into the elegant black and white tone base, using simple spatial lines to express the quintessential and personal design vocabulary. The details of the furnishings create a comfortable artistic conception. Roaming in the art museum, retro floor parquet with Cathedral glass, painted warm and moist walls all form strong visual symbols to be transformed into visual moving lines, creating an extremely harmonious feast of shape and color.The design of the Meigu Knight Art Museum brings together the Rococo design style that has been popular since the 18th century, the neoclassical art genre of the 19th century and the modern art of the 20th century. Designers hope to use modern dialogue classical elements, concise lines, bold colors, so that different ages of life style in this exchange.The moving line of the art museum is accompanied by the tortuous flow of architectural growth, every place can be seated, appreciate the exhibits and read the classics. In different visual nodes of the space, the art creation team has carefully completed works of art "Knight", "you of the Unicorn" and so on. Exquisite craftsmanship and exquisite modeling, together with art furniture and display lights, have built this place into an absolute artistic realm. Similarly, the velvet curtain of the rest area box seems to be a more and more imaginative mystery. The fireplace in the "Salon Area" is outlined with warm marble, and is accompanied by the natural and quiet large lacquered long table booth. It is the boutique display area of ​​the art gallery and the gathering place for social salon emotions.No matter which space they are in, the audience can clearly feel the harmonious and unified coherence between each detail and the overall space,no matter the neatness and harshness of lines and contours, or the style and tone, they are all consistent, making this space be filled with elegant and luxurious atmosphere.