The new Sanxingdui Museum building in the city of Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently completes construction and began trial operation. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The new Sanxingdui Museum building in the city of Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently completed construction and began trial operation.
The new museum building was designed by China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Corp. Ltd and constructed by China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp, Ltd, subsidiaries of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC). It's the largest single-building museum housing ruins in Southwest China.
The construction team builds a virtual museum in advance, using a virtual design and simulation system and building information modeling (BIM) technology. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
To ensure the smooth construction of the new building, the construction team built a virtual museum in advance, using a virtual design and simulation system and building information modeling (BIM) technology.
The virtual museum served as the intelligent brain for the project's construction. It conducted digital stimulation throughout the entire construction process, especially for key schemes, construction organization, and engineering difficulties, relying on building information modeling as well as video, audio and other visual methods for human-computer interaction.
In addition to BIM technology, laser leveling intelligent robots, wire-laying robots, 3D scanners, and MR intelligent systems were applied throughout the whole process, ensuring quality, accuracy and efficiency.
The new Sanxingdui Museum building adopts a planted roof and used fiber-reinforced solidified soil, with its green planting area reaching 27,000 square meters. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The new Sanxingdui Museum building adopts a planted roof and used fiber-reinforced solidified soil, with its green planting area reaching 27,000 square meters. Overlooking the building from the air, the new building with its green roof integrates with the earth, realizing its original design intention - the integration of the building into the environment.
To achieve green planting on sloped roofs, the construction team used plant fibers, organic compounds and nutrients to create a solidified soil matrix through microwave heating and mechanical compression. The saturated water load of soil matrix made in this way is less than 45 kg per square meter, effectively reducing the load of the sloped roof. By doing so, the building boasts a low-carbon approach in terms of building materials, from raw materials selection to production and use. It also reduces the loss of nutrients in the soil and maintenance of the sloping roofs. In addition, green construction was achieved throughout the whole construction process by utilizing solar energy, wind energy as well as noise and dust control systems.
The new Sanxingdui Museum building in the city of Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently completes construction and began trial operation. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Inspired by the almond-shaped eyes of bronze and gold masks from Sanxingdui ancient Shu culture, the design of the new building makes full use of archaeological elements from the Sanxingdui Ruins site, such as a glass curtain wall that imitates the almond-shaped eyes of masks and facial statues, and the sun shields on the outside of the building being painted bronze.
Dry-hanging beige stone slabs are used in the building, forming a solid and striking contrast with the façade.
The new Sanxingdui Museum building in the city of Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, recently completes construction and began trial operation. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
CSCEC will bring into play its whole industry chain advantages and increase efforts in its cultural relics and cultural heritage protection through high-quality construction and buildings, in a bid to undertake its new cultural mission.
(Executive editor: Xie Yunxiao)
