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HKIA AnnuAl AwArds 2014

Design Concept overground. At the back of the building is a public
The site is featurelessly abstract in a newly developed promenade with a sculpture park. The design stresses
suburb of Kunming city. It is located adjacent to a river, the experience and process of discovery; the analogy of
a roadway and a new art and cultural centre with few discovering a "lost world" on penetrating a seemingly
specific contextual factors, thus encouraging the square- protective cliff, when one is suddenly transferred to a
planned, cubic form of the museum. The total floor different time and ambience.
area of the museum is approx. 60,000 sq.m. The total
building height is a modest 34.2m, with two storeys Jury Report
of underground back-of house supporting facilities & The Yunnan Provincial Museum is a remarkable
five storeys of public exhibition spaces and galleries architectural achievement demonstrating a high level of
design sophistication and achieving a strong aesthetic
presence. It draws its inspiration from the natural
landscapes of Yunnan and particularly its famous rock
face formations. Without resorting to literal mimicry and
without using stone, the overall design of the building
and its external detailing evoke the material quality and
shifting light effects of these rock faces by using perforated
metal cladding panels of varying perforation density,
while internally a number of bright sunlit atria create the
effect of natural canyons in the public circulation spaces.
The filtering effect of the outer surfaces of the museum
creates a wide variety of natural lighting conditions in the
exhibition spaces.

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