Mixed Use

Times Museum is an adaptive reuse project occupying 4 documentary blocks used to house factory workers in 1980’s Guangzhou, Southern China. Having been unoccupied and gone to neglect, the project is to convert the buildings into a museum for Contemporary Art on the first 2 levels, with an adjoining bookshop and café, and 4 levels above that into studio workshops for designers. Using a sustainable approach to the project, the use of natural ventilation is maximized be creating a large canopy on top to shelter the four buildings, and open glass and metal bridges to connect them to newly installed elevators. Existing open walkways are enclosed with metal mesh to retain natural air flow. As a result, no air conditioning system is installed for the entire public area. The studio workshops retain existing openable windows and doors onto balconies. Air conditioning system is only used in selective areas as needed, like the café and the galleries where climate control is essential. Keeping use of new wall finishes to a minimum, the interior spaces has a raw look contrasting the metal and glass bridge connections and the mesh enclosures. 3 large clusters of bamboo planting add a sense of green nature, and dramatic diffused lighting gives an Asian tranquility to the long internal avenue, terminating in a stepped stadium seating area which can also be used for art display. 時代美術館是利用1980年代建於中國南方廣州市提供給工廠工人的四楝房子進行改造而成。 原建築一直空置且無人關注，此項目將它的首兩層改為一個當代藝術博物館，並有相鄰的書店和咖啡館，四層則變為設計師的工作室。 以可持續的方式設計該項目，最大限度地利用自然通風，創建一個巨型頂棚遮蓋全部（四幢）樓宇，用開放式的玻璃和金屬橋樑及新安裝的電梯將它們連接起來。 現有的露天通道被金屬網封閉以保留自然的空氣流通。可以令整個公共區域無需安裝空調系統。工作間保留原有可開啟的窗戶和通往陽台的門。空調系統根據需要安裝在有限的空間，如空氣幹濕調節必不可少的咖啡廳和畫廊。 盡量減少使用新的牆體飾面，內部空間由金屬、玻璃橋和金屬網罩，形成自然原始的對比感。三組大型的竹子群，增添了大自然的盎然綠意，而戲劇性的擴散照明為內部空間營造出一份亞洲式寧靜街區之感，街區末端為體育場式階梯式休息區，可同時用於藝術展覽。