Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick, Suzhou (China)
Liu Jiakun- Type Museum Culture / Leisure
- Material Brick
- Date 2016
- City Suzhou
- Country China
- Photograph Arch-Exist Photography Liu Jian
The paving stones that were used in the Forbidden City in Beijing came from a manufacturing plant whose centenary history is presented by premises that explore the poetics of baked brick.
The museum features a marshy park, fenced in like traditional gardens, across which passageways and footbridges highlight archaeological remains and provide changing waterside sceneries.
The main volume makes abstract nods to palace architecture as well as to the structure of ovens used for ceramic-making, interweaving them in a narrative experience along galleries paced by mighty pillars.
Photo: Jiakun Architects
Photo: Jiakun Architects
Photo: Jiakun Architects
Photo: Jiakun Architects
