CCTN develops the first blast furnace museum in china for shougang group

‘the museum of regeneration of shougang no. 3 blast furnace’ is the first regeneration project of the blast furnace and ancillary facilities in china. developed by CCTN for a leading steel company in the country, the design presents the strategy featuring static protection and dynamic regeneration, while modestly treating the industrial remains and saving the unique urban memory of the land.

the entrance to liudi underwater exhibition hall in the show pool

in CCTN’s design, a parking lot is implanted at the bottom of the ancillary cooling pool of the blast furnace — in this way, it solves the general parking difficulty with industry remains. through the underwater art exhibition hall placed together with it, people may dip into the lake to interpret the hundred-year history of shougang group, and to interact with the artwork in the hall itself.

jingshuiyuan underwater exhibition hall in the show pool

the city plaza at the south part of the blast furnace provides a space for various social activities: the reporting hall, temporary exhibition hall, the souvenir and the public restaurant. these buildings are all separated from the blast furnace and arranged along the shoreline independently. this is to provide the most possibility of social vigor spreading.

the interior of annex building D of no.3 blast furnace

the form of earth covers construction and sews up the space between the show pool and the blast furnaces. a large amount of the original artistic space is rendered into the urban exhibition hall. the four service platforms, with a different elevation within the furnace awning, and the original cast house platform work together as the core space. as well, the other six service platforms outside of the furnish awning creates a sufficient interaction space between human and nature, generating urban activities never seen before on the industrial land.

the wall outside the underwater exhibition hall  — the showcase of  shougang’s one hundred years’ history

functions, such as a sky bar, show stage, new products release, science education, social interaction and cultural stage, emerge in the air. the high-altitude platform presents strong multi-dimensional stereo city meaning. diversified urban behaviors interweave with the original architecture organically through multiple routes. as a result, industrialization eventually transforms into urbanism. 

the interior of the underwater exhibition

bird’s eye view

cast house platform

the show pool and annex building

the southern façade 

functional analysis

streamline analysis

project info:

construction site: north part of shougang plant at shijing mountain, beijing

development time: 2016.10-2017.4

completion time: plan to be completed in early 2019

project area: 49,800sqm, where the aboveground part is 11,100sqm, and the underground part is 38,700 sqm

client: beijing shougang construction investment co., ltd. design & management

client’s team: wang shizhong, liu hua, jin hongli, xu yan, chai dewen, dong quanxi

design unit: CCTN design, shougang CCTN, shougang international engineering co.,ltd.

plan (CCTN design): bo hongtao, liu pengfei, zhang yang, gao wei, fan dandan, kang qi, zhou mingxu

construction drawing design team: bo hongtao, zhao jiakang, zhang yang, gao wei, zhang zhicong, zhu xueyun, kang qi, li kehui, tan xirui, pang tailong, zhou mingxu, zhao mengmeng, ni ziyu

shougang international engineering co., ltd (mechanics and electrics): li yang, hou junda, yuan wenbing, chen gang, ning zhigang, yin yonggang, ji yongping, zhang xiuzhen, chen xilei, li hongfei, yu lifeng

CCTN design (mechanics and electrics): zhou le, guo facheng, wang chao, sun yue, wang xiangrong, wang meng, zheng hao, li yungen, zhang lixin, hu yangshuo, cai xiaohan, yu mingsong, su wenjing, he zhiyong, du xing

photographer: chen he

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edited by: maria erman | designboom