The He Art Museum (HEM), located in Shunde, Guangdong, is a non-profit private art museum established by a family and designed by Tadao Ando.
The He Art Museum was designed by architect Tadao Ando, with a total area of about 16,000 square meters, of which the exhibition hall area is about 8,000 square meters. By using bare concrete as the building material, Mr. Ando integrated natural elements such as light, water, and wind into this art museum with the artistic conception of Lingnan architectural culture.
【About He Art Museum】
HEM's architectural design combines opposing features to form a simple circular and square building form. The center of gravity and scale of the circle as the center shift with the height, creating a slowly spreading effect from the inside to the outside, from the building to the city. This is the inheritance of the "round sky and square earth" of ancient Central Plains architecture, and it is also the symbolic intersection of pure geometric solids to create an architectural landscape with Lingnan architectural cultural characteristics and a tribute to light and shadow.
Double helix exposed concrete staircase
From the details to the overall structure, even the landscape design, the building is like ripples on the water, unfolding layer by layer. The center is a cylindrical 5-story empty space. The double helix staircase spirals down to form a central circular space. The double helix bare concrete staircase, like a DNA structure, is an amazing highlight of the HEM building, and also witnesses the leap forward in China's architectural technology.
Jia'an Garden
The dynamic line of the Jia'an Garden implies the artistic conception of winding paths leading to secluded places. The curved exposed concrete partition walls are orderly distributed and surrounded in the garden, and with a variety of carefully selected pink flowering trees, the audience feels as if they have walked hundreds of steps along the banks and suddenly encountered a peach blossom forest, wandering in the poetic scenery. In this outdoor space, the landscape design is dominated by waterscapes. The pool that echoes the "circle" can be used as a hydrophilic device to alleviate the heat of the subtropical summer. At the same time, when the building is reflected on the water surface, it becomes the unique base of the building.
