Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum exhibits a private collection of Buddhist stone sculptures. The overall layout, resembling traditional Chinese gardens, allows visitors to experience natural space and artificial space alternately while going through the museum. The construction method of the framework and walls corresponds to the local craftsmanship: the inner layer is made of plain concrete composite wall with brick as mold. The gaps between the blocks are used to organize the light, the sculptures and the landscape. In this way, the whole museum blends into the surrounding scenery yet forms a distinctive atmosphere.
博物馆入口景观 / the entrance landscape
The local wild hybrid trees were originally designed to be reserved for wild growth. The shade gives new poetry to the path. The bamboo grows higher and higher, becoming a natural division of space.
展览大厅入口 / entrance of the exhibition hall
博物馆屋顶水池 / roof water pool
The visitor's journey through the museum offers a three-dimensional immersive experience of architecture and landscape: The entrance itself comprises a series of elevated concrete platforms that move in a rhythmical and diagonal fashion, framed by dense bamboo forests and a canopied sky of trees. Through its inclined layout, the building itself remains concealed until visitors arrive at a narrow entry ramp spanning across a serene water surface.
Inverting expectations, the ramp penetrates the 2nd floor of the main museum so that one hovers over the ground floor, cavernous as if it had been excavated, displaying large-scale Buddhist figurines and wall carvings. In the same way as the landscape is experienced circuitously, visitors circulate the perimeter of a roof courtyard where light filled vitrines containing various Buddha statues punctuate the walls. One is then led down a flight of stairs to the main L-shaped exhibition hall that is subtly subdivided into four niches separated byvertical gaps of light.
以佛教石刻为主题的博物馆室内
the interior view of the museum with
the theme of the Buddhist stone sculptures
博物馆室内，利用天窗采光
the interior view of the museum,
using the skylight to introduce the natural light
草稿图 / 家琨建筑设计事务所
家琨建筑设计事务所由刘家琨创办于1999年。事务所组织并参与多项国际建筑合作、展览和交流。项目业主分布于中国各地及欧洲，工作范围涵盖项目策划、城市设计、建筑设计、景观设计、室内设计、产品设计及当代艺术创作。其作品关注现实，尊重传统和民间智慧，强调建筑与自然的共生。
