Luoyang Museum

Design: 2022-2023

The design of the Han and Wei Luoyang City Site Museum places the architecture between earth and sky. It’s built upon history, yet emphatically forward-looking. Drawing inspiration from the urban layout, architectural forms, Chinese calligraphy, sculpture, and landscape traditions of Luoyang during the Han and Wei dynasties of Luoyang, the museum reinterprets these classical elements to create a contemporary cultural space.

Adhering to Han and Wei ancestors’ artistic spirit of shifting from formal resemblance to spiritual resemblance, the design pursues air, rhythm, form and spirit. The result eschews a singular emphasis, rather blending architecture and landscape, straight lines and curves, solid and transparent partitions.

The building’s form is both solemn and elegant with an open, flowing layout. As an international heritage museum, it offers a window into the Han and Wei dynasties to visitors from around the world.

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