“Sleep for four thousand years, waking up surprise the world.”
Sanxingdui Ruin Site is located 40 kilometers north of Chengdu, in the west of Guanghan on the bank of the Yazi river. Its civilization is 4,800 years ago, and tens of thousands of exquisite cultural relics have been unearthed, which occupies an important position in the world bronze culture and is known as the “source of the Yangtze River civilization”.
The mysterious Sanxingdui has been concerned by the world since it came out, it is known as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the 20th century. A series of cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui can always leave people with infinite reverie.
The new main museum and visitor center covers a total area of 54,400 square meters. The main museum will undertake all the functions of cultural relics exhibition and tourist guide. Hall 1 and 2 will be transformed into digital museum and research and education center. The design scheme of the new building —— “Piling up at Sanxing, eyes of ancient Shu” comes from the team of Liu Yi, chief architect of China Southwest Architecture.
The design of the new hall extracts the lines from the Sanxingdui cultural relics as the control curve of the shape and internal space. The roof adopts the form of slope covered soil, which echoes the left and right forms of the comprehensive museum, forming three covered mounds along the central axis, meaning “piling up at Sanxing", so that the body concept of the building is the same to inherit the name of “Sanxingdui Ruin Site”.
The facade wall of the whole museum is connected with the outer wall of Hall No.2 and encircling a pool, forming a scene of “Sanxing with the moon”.
Sanxingdui Museum adopts Low-E large arc long bent tempered laminated composite insulating glass with a single glass arc length of 4400mm and a width of 1200mm. Glass with hidden frame curtain wall installation is another masterpiece of the application of large arc long single bent tempered glass in China.
The lobby on the first floor adopts 4x12mm ultra-white double SGP laminated composite insulating glass, from 2500mm to 5000mm, from low to high. The special process ensures the safety performance of the large glass, while the line of sight is not covered.
In terms of architectural performance, the solid and heavy facade reveals the “eye of ancient Shu”, looking towards the site area, symbolizing the window of Sanxingdui culture to the outside world, and is the metaphor of ancient Shu civilization looking at the world through the ancient and modern times. The unique design of the “eye” of glass is the collision of modern materials and historical civilization, but also the clever fusion of “new” and “old”.
