China Wood Sculpture Museum

Stretching 200 metres through a dense residential district, the museum appears as an anomaly among the surrounding apartment blocks, bringing an abstraction of nature into an ordinary setting.

Across its 13,000 square metres, the boundary between solid and liquid is blurred in reference to the local landscape. The exterior is covered in polished steel plates that mirror the surroundings and the changing light. Solid walls keep heat loss low in the northern climate, while skylights break and twist through the surface to let in the light of the low winter sun, giving the galleries soft, diffused daylight.