Australian IAPA Design Company won the international competition for the conceptual planning of the Daming Palace National Heritage Park in 2008. After completing the conceptual master plan, IAPA was also responsible for the detailed planning of the entire park and the individual design of the Xuan Zheng Hall and Zi Chen Hall.
The most eye-catching on the central axis is the art display装置themed "Palace of Time" for Xuan Zheng Hall and Zi Chen Hall, historically known as the "Three Great Halls" of Daming Palace, along with Han Yuan Hall.
The Zi Chen Hall display and signage project at the Daming Palace National Heritage Park in Xi'an is an art display device completed in recent years by IAPA in collaboration with Professor Feng Feng from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. This outstanding design, which showcases human wisdom, has delivered a perfect answer in terms of creativity, artistic appeal, and control over national heritage protection regulations. It can be regarded as a successful model of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The Palace of Time is an architecture that has never appeared in the history of architecture; it is a building that keeps growing. It tells a story with the growth and extension of life, a truly living architecture. It remembers history and reviews the memory of civilization in this way, while connecting history with today, and the memory of the nation with personal memory.
"Palace of Time"
Here, architecture is a form that sometimes exists and sometimes does not, a building that is constantly being generated.
The changes of time and seasons are the materials of this building. The architecture provides an imagination that spans ancient and modern between existence and disappearance.
The old palace frame is faintly visible among the changing tree trunks, and the mark of time has a perfect interpretation on the incomplete outline of the palace and the ancient tree trunks. "Temporality" and "vitality" have great expressiveness here. New buds, dense branches, fallen leaves, snow, and the decaying frame of the palace will interpret everything about "Daming Palace" in the closest way to nature.
