{"id":24802,"date":"2024-05-24T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T17:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T17:26:38","slug":"ceramic-museum-and-mosaic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/interventions\/ceramic-museum-and-mosaic-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceramic Museum and Mosaic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explore the <\/span>Ceramic Museum and Mosaic Park<\/b> with Casanova<\/span> + Hernandez Architects, a project that invites visitors to enjoy a multi sensorial experience by blending architecture and landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mosaic Park as symbol of cultural hybridization<\/b><\/h3>\n

The urban extension of Jinzhou, a city less than 500 kilometers northeast of Beijing, has been articulated by the creation of a new large public park of 176 Ha in an area reclaimed from the sea.<\/strong> During the first phase, the park hosted the 2013 Jinzhou World Landscape Art Exposition and once the Expo was closed, the area became the central park of a new urban development.<\/p>\n

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Axonometr\u00eda del conjunto \/ Axonometry
Ilustraci\u00f3n \/ Illustration: Casanova + Hern\u00e1ndez Arquitectos<\/p><\/div>\n

The design of the Expo is based on the paradox that globalization, although it has typically been associated with the destruction of local cultural identity, may also be able to generate some kind of identity.<\/strong>
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The project experiments with the concept of cultural hybridization, which is a phenomenon developed during many centuries of commercial and cultural exchange between West and East.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Detalle de la fachada del museo \/ Details of the museum\u00b4s facade
Fotograf\u00eda \/ Photography: Ben McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n

On one hand, the use of broken local ceramic pieces of different colors for the materialization of the pavement and benches of the park and the facades of the museum evokes the mosaic tradition that was widespread throughout Europe by the Roman Empire and that has evolved along history till the present day<\/strong>, bringing technical solutions such as the trencad\u00eds technique used by the Catalan modernist architects.<\/p>\n

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Fotograf\u00eda \/ Photography: Casanova + Hern\u00e1ndez Arquitectos<\/p><\/div>\n

On the other hand, the geometry of the park is inspired by the crackled glaze of the Chinese porcelain developed from the 10th century during the Song Dynasty in the Ru Ware and Ge Ware ceramic pieces.<\/strong> The Mosaic Park and the Ceramic Museum remind citizens that the Jinzhou region was once a production area of ceramic and porcelain, although this tradition was lost for centuries, being nowadays forgotten.<\/p>\n

Hybrid landscape: mix of architecture and landscape<\/h3>\n

The project represents the paradigm of the contemporary urban park<\/strong>, which is neither a fragment of the natural landscape nor a landscaped piece of the city, but the mix of both of them. Mosaic Park presents a hybrid character that combines architecture with landscape, and nature with artifice.<\/p>\n

The project represents the paradigm of the contemporary urban park, which is neither a fragment of the natural landscape nor a landscaped piece of the city, but the mix of both of them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Planos vegetales del parque \/ Plan planes of the park
Fotograf\u00eda \/ Photography: Ben McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n

The irregular geometry of the park is spatially unfolded into a crackled three-dimensional topography, where landscape and architecture merge into a continuous surface formed by 884 irregular planes.<\/a><\/p>\n

This geometry is embodied as a polychromatic mosaic formed by combining flowers of four different species and colors with mosaics created with broken pieces of local Chinese pottery. Flowers and ceramic blend into a colorful mosaic that brings nature and local crafts together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Planos vegetales del parque \/Plant planes of the park
Fotograf\u00eda\/ Photography: Casanova + Hern\u00e1ndez Arquitectos<\/p><\/div>\n

Flowers and ceramic blend into a colorful mosaic that brings nature and local crafts together.<\/p>\n

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The building geometry of the Ceramic Museum is conceived as an extension of the crackled geometry of the park, and it is materialized using the same ceramic tiles used for the pavement of the park,<\/strong> which are combined in the building facade with glazed openings also following irregular patterns.<\/p>\n

The polychromatic mosaic formed by vegetal and ceramic surfaces provides geometric and visual unity to the project, avoiding the usual separation between hardscape and softscape<\/strong>. Landscape and architecture, Mosaic Park and Ceramic Museum merge into a single work, at the same time multifaceted and surprising, characterized by its hybrid character and strong plastic content.<\/p>\n

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Vista de una de las entradas al parque \/ View of one of the entrances of the park
Fotograf\u00eda \/ Photography: Ben McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n

Public life activator<\/h3>\n

The park and the museum work as activators of public life in two ways: on one hand, Mosaic Park seeks to activate the use of public space.<\/strong> The iconic nature of the project serves as an attraction that invites visitors to enjoy a multi-sensory experience. On the other hand, the Ceramic Museum functions as an activator of the cultural and social life of Jinzhou, trying to arouse the visitor’s curiosity about the past of the place, transmitting a lost tradition, and finally creating a program of exhibitions and public events in a new meeting point for the citizens.<\/p>\n

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