SUZHOU MUSEUM

-IEOH MING PEI

• The Suzhou Museum Chinese is a museum of
ancient Chinese art ancient chinese
paintings, calligraphy and handmade crafts
situated in Suzhou Jiangsu China.
HISTORY OF SUZHOU..
• 1960: Museum founded and first open to the
public in the former residence of the ZHONG
Prince of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
• 2006: The current building designed by
Chinese-American architect IEOH MING
PEI inaugurated.
 DESIGN
• New Suzhou Museum is said to be the last design
of I.M.PEI in his career.
• Not only does it become a monumental design
building in Suzhou, but also a significant
construction merging the traditional Chinese
architecural design with the future.

• The design of the roof of the museum is inspired

by the TRADITIONAL SLOPING ROOF landscape of
Suzhou
• The new roof has been reinterpreted and evolved into
a new geometric effect.

• The glass roof will set off against the stone roof,
allowing natural light to enter the activity area and the
exhibition area of the museum to guide visitors and
make them feel relaxed and happy.

• Metal sunshades and nostalgic woodwork frames will

be widely used under glass roofs to control and filter
the sun's rays entering the exhibition area.
• The central courtyard, north of the central hall, is
said to be the most elaborate.
• he main yard is surrounded by the building on the
east, south and west sides, and is adjacent to the
Zhuozheng garden on the north.

• This is a creative landscape garden elaborately

created from classical garden elements. It is
composed of pebbled ponds, rocky rockery,
straight winding Bridges, octagonal pavilion and
bamboo forest.
 COLLECTIONS
• The museum has a display area of 2,200
square meters.
• It has more than 15,000 pieces in its
collections
• Most are ancient paintings and calligraphy,
ceramics, crafts, unearthed relics and
revolution relics
• It also possesses more than 70,000 books and
documents, and over 20,000 rubbings of stone
inscriptions.
• The collection of paintings and calligraphy
includes works of masters from song
Dynasty to Ming and Qing dynasties.
 STRUCTURAL CHARECTERISTICS
• Due to the need of building function, the
basement is too long, and multiple
measures are adopted in the structural
design to prevent concrete shrinkage
cracks
• The structure system is concrete shear wall
structure, which not only has good seismic
performance but also cordinates with
building’s function
• The structure also adopted the new steel
structure truss as a roof structure.
• Using steel structure instead of Suzhou traditional
architecture in modern wooden material not only
conforms to architectural modeling
• and embodies the aesthetic of modern
architecture, realizes the "Su and new" design
concept, "embroider" give a "traditional Suzhou"
and "modern Suzhou" fusion "double-sided
embroidery.
FORM
• Several octagonal halls and the main
geometric roof cut solve not only the roof
lighting problem, but also reduce the volume,
full of wisdom, interest, and ingenuity.
• The design USES triangle (diamond) as the
parent element of the inside and outside
modeling repeatedly.
VIEWS OF SUZHOU