Ningbo Museum

NINGBO MUSEUM, CHINA

Ningbo Museum is a national-level museum that showcases Ningbo’s humanities, history, and art. The architectural design of the museum is inspired by mountains, water, and the ocean. It incorporates reclaimed Ming and Qing dynasty brick wall fragments collected from the local area and uses bamboo cast concrete walls instead of steel as finishing materials. The museum’s design integrates Ningbo’s regional cultural characteristics, traditional architectural elements, and modern architectural forms and technologies. Some spaces are designed to maximise the use of sunlight and the surrounding environment by taking into full consideration window openings, courtyard settings and entrance space planning. The building’s multi-path public spaces provide visitors with a rich spatial experience while adapting to various museum flow patterns. needed to keep it warm, thus reducing operative energy & CO2 impact. The low emissions attitude was taken further, though, with sustainably sourced building materials and cradle-to-cradle building strategies.

Produced by Southeast University as part of the ARCH4FUTURE project.
Co-funded by the Finnish National Agency for Education.