Sanqingshan Geological Museum / UAD

The designing process began in late spring. After trekking through verdant and thriving mountains, we ultimately arrived at this tranquil valley with an oblique east-west strike. Amidst the undulating hills scatter several residential houses constructed from stone or brick. Behind those houses, we could see cascades of rice fields, above which there were scattered "field stones", constituting a special and beautiful field scenery... That is where the museum is located. As we got closer, we noticed that the base was higher in the south and lower in the north. Two vague streams were converging among the veins of mountains. A century-old camphor tree was growing vibrantly at the center of the base, pointing its sturdy branches stretching toward the north as if it was resisting the slope of the base. Mountains, fields, trees, and stones composed our first impression of the base.

Sanqingshan Geological Museum / UAD
© Qiang Zhao © Qiang Zhao
  • architects: UAD
  • Location: Sanqing Mountain Scenic Area, Yushan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China
  • Project Year: 2019
  • Photographs: Qiang Zhao
  • Photographs: Ke Yang
  • Area: 6425.0 m2

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