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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

X Museum in Beijing, China by TEMP

July 20th, 2021 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: TEMP

X Museum is designed to become a new cultural place for the younger generation in the city of Beijing. Contemporary art is constantly evolving in our time of endless information and their complex intersections. How should one shape our cultural spaces in response to such times of uncertainty?

Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

Architects: TEMP
Project: X Museum
Location: Beijing, China
Photography: Jin Weiqi

Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

TEMP aims to rethink how art spaces could be imagined first by asking the most basic questions as in how a painting should be hung on a wall. Custom made terracotta bricks are extruded with horizontal slots to which metal clips can be installed to hang artworks. Paintings, installations, projectors, and even white walls could be hung onto this wall system. There is an overflow of white and concrete box museums. X Museum offers a newer way of installing and showing artworks.

Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

The letter X is used as the main symbol of the museum at the entrance as an intersection of two H-beams supporting each other structurally. The crossed-braced structure holds the large curving roof that is perforated to filter patterns of light into the entrance space. The diagram of the X composed of two lines is signified as the most basic form of interaction. The museum also dedicates itself to being multidisciplinary show not only artists, but also architects, scientists, engineers, musicians, and designers.

Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

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: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

: Image Courtesy © Jin Weiqi

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Tags: Beijing, China

Category: Museum

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