The Nanyue King's Palace Museum in Guangzhou is a large-scale archaeological museum built based on the site of the Nanyue Kingdom's palace, with the purpose of better protecting and displaying the relics of the Nanyue Kingdom, showcasing the development history of Guangzhou for over two thousand years, promoting and advancing the application of the Nanyue Kingdom's relics for World Cultural Heritage status, creating a cultural brand for Guangzhou, becoming a highlight of cultural tourism, and promoting the coordinated development of Guangzhou's socio-economic and cultural aspects. It also serves as a major cultural facility for Guangzhou to welcome the 16th Asian Games in 2010 and is a key project in Guangzhou.
The concept of the archaeological museum is designed to utilize the precious historical and cultural resources of the site, combining site protection with architectural and landscape design. It employs a series of techniques such as preservation, restoration, and innovation to reorganize and sublimate the historical human resources. It not only fully explores the historical and cultural connotations of the city, reflecting the continuity of the urban context, but also meets the needs of modern cultural life, reflecting the design philosophy of the new era's architectural museums.
Overall, a more three-dimensional spatial layout is adopted. In terms of the floor plan, the museum's main body—central exhibition corridor—northern landscape tower forms the main line that runs through the entire key archaeological area. Vertically, the main building, central corridor, and landscape tower all have spaces for visitors to move up or down, creating multiple viewing angles at different heights to enhance the visitors' tour experience.
The key pillar is one of the most representative relics in the Nanyue King's Palace site, vividly recording the urban development history of Guangzhou for two thousand years. The cross-section texture of the key pillar is used as a formal language, abstracted to form the building's skin, sublimating this powerful physical evidence and making the museum a symbolic symbol of Guangzhou as the center of Lingnan culture and the birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road.
Functional Analysis
The Nanyue King's Palace Museum is built based on the site of the Nanyue Kingdom's palace, and it is positioned as a large-scale palace garden archaeological museum. Its design is based on protection, based on archaeological excavation and research, with the heritage itself as the core value, serving the application for World Heritage status. Scientific planning, categorized protection, and rational use are combined with architectural and exhibition creative design techniques to fully display the rich historical and cultural connotations of the Nanyue Kingdom's palace site, highlighting the style of Guangzhou as a famous historical and cultural city.
