CUBE Art Museum at 798

Beijing, China 2020

CUBE Art Museum, a renovation project, is located inside 798 art district adjacent to Pace Art Museum and Minsheng Museum of Modern Art, both were also designed by Zhu Pei in 2009 and 2016 separately.

CUBE美术馆是一个改造项目，位于798艺术区内，毗邻佩斯美术馆和民生现代美术馆，这两个美术馆也是朱锫于2009年和2016年设计建成。 

The idea of the art museum begins with the sensitive and in-depth observation of surroundings in a specific area, and the original old industrial plants are retained as many as possible. On this basis, new buildings are injected, so as to create the tension between the new and old buildings, and complement each other with surrounding industrial buildings, such as Pace Art Museum.

美术馆的构思始于对特定地段环境敏感深入的观察，尽最大的可能保留原有老的工业厂房，在此基础上，再注入新的建筑，从而编织出新老建筑之间的张力，并与周边工业建筑，如佩斯美术馆等建筑，彼此缝合，相互补充。

The design of the art museum traces the texture of the original industrial heritage, adopts a series of cubes to shape the order of orthogonal geometric shapes and reflects the construction and planning logic of 798 art district. It is particularly worth mentioning that the magically variable central courtyard transforms the original square surrounded by the three sides of industrial plants into a relatively closed central courtyard with the help of an independent cast-in-situ concrete wall. The huge steel beam sliding crane spans the concrete walls from north to south. It can not only hang art installations, but also a mechanical traction device, which opens canvas with natural drooping, approximate inverted arch and variable shape one by one. According to the weather and sunshine angle, these inverted arch canvas can be opened and closed at will for shading and rain protection. It is a place where people gather, a venue for the opening ceremony and an outdoor exhibition.

美术馆的设计遵循原有工业遗产的肌理，采用一系列的盒子，塑造正交几何形体的秩序，映射798 地区的建造与规划逻辑。特别值得一提的是有着魔术般可变的中心院落，是借助一道独立的现浇混凝土墙，将原有的、被厂房三面围合的广场转换成相对封闭的中心院落，巨大的钢梁式滑动吊车横跨在南北的混凝土墙上，它不仅可以悬挂艺术装置，也是张拉一个个自然下垂、近似反拱、形态可变的帆布的机械牵引装置。根据天气、阳光角度，这些反拱形态的帆布可以任意开合，遮阳避雨。它是人流聚集的场所、开幕式的场地、也是户外展场。

This museum design also captures the material characteristics of industrial plants in 798 art district, takes cast-in-situ concrete and red brick as the main materials, and highlights the construction characteristics of the joint and transformation between the structural form and the partition wall.

美术馆的设计也捕捉了798工业厂房的材料特点，以现浇混凝土、红砖为主要材料，着力突出这两种材料在结构形式与围护墙体之间的交接、转换的建构特点。

Once again, the design concept explored columnless, horizontally extended structural forms and tectonic expressiveness. The two newly built exhibition halls adopt the columnless long-span cast-in-situ concrete structure. One is the arched curved beam, which is diffused from the adjacent two arches with the natural sky light. The other is the concrete multi ribbed beam to convey the characteristics of the material itself.

美术馆的设计再次探索了无柱、水平延伸的结构形式和建构表现力。新建造的两个展厅都采用无柱大跨现浇混凝土结构，一个是采用到拱式曲面横梁，伴随着自然天光从比邻的两个拱之间漫射下来；另一个是混凝土密肋式横梁，以表达材料自身的特点。

项目信息

项目名称：798CUBE美术馆

地点：北京，中国

设计时间：2015-2016年

建成时间：2020年

建筑面积：3541平方米

建筑、室内、景观设计：朱锫建筑设计事务所

主持建筑师：朱锫

设计团队：Shuhei Nakamura，由昌臣，张顺，刘伶，王立言，贾彬，丁新月，常江

结构、机电顾问：中国美术学院风景建筑设计研究院

照明顾问：北京宁之境照明设计有限责任公司

业主：北京七星华电科技集团有限责任公司

总承建商：邯郸第二建筑安装有限公司

摄影：金伟琦，朱润资

Project fact sheet

Project name: 798CUBE Art Museum

Location: Beijing, China

Design period: 2015-2016

Completion Year: 2020

Area: 3,541sqm

Architecture, Interior and Landscape Design: Studio Zhu Pei

Design Principal: Zhu Pei

Design Team: Shuhei Nakamura, You Changchen, Zhang Shun, Liu Ling, Wang Liyan, Jia Bin, Ding Xinyue, Chang Jiang

Consultants

Structural and MEP: The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art

Lighting: Ning Field Lighting Design CO., LTD.

Client: Beijing Qixing Huadian Science and Technology CO., LTD.

Main Contractor: Handan Second Building Institute Co., LTD.

Photography by Jin Weiqi, Zhu Runzi, courtesy of Studio Zhu Pei

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