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Sifang Art Museum

Year
2020
Status
Built
Location

The Sifang Art Museum, designed by Steven Holl Architects, is a museum about parallax and the body's movement through space. Sited in the lush green landscape of the Pearl Spring near Nanjing, China, the site and courtyard are planned by strategically placed bamboo formed concrete walls that seem to criss-cross in your path, forcing perspectives to change dramatically as you move toward the entrance of the museum. This mysterious feeling confounds your idea of a vanishing point and is directly inspired by the 13th century Chinese paintings of parallel perspectives, in which the viewer travels with the painting.

The Sifang Art Museum, designed by Steven Holl Architects, is a museum about parallax and the body's movement through space. Sited in the lush green landscape of the Pearl Spring near Nanjing, China, the site and courtyard are planned by strategically placed bamboo formed concrete walls that seem to criss-cross in your path, forcing perspectives to change dramatically as you move toward the entrance of the museum. This mysterious feeling confounds your idea of a vanishing point and is directly inspired by the 13th century Chinese paintings of parallel perspectives, in which the viewer travels with the painting.

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