Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design

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Beijing, China
  • Chief Architect: Hongtao Bo
  • Design Team: Hongtao Bo, Pengfei Liu, Ke Jiang, Dandan Fan, Qi Kang, Zeng Wang, Mingxu Zhou, Zhixue Zheng
  • Structure: Junda Hou, Wenbing Yuan, Gang Chen, Zhigang Ning, Yonggang Yin, Yongping Ji, Xiuzhen Zhang, Xilei Chen, Hongfei Li, Lifeng Yu
  • Structural Mechatronics: Facheng Guo, Xueyu Cui, Chao Wang, Xiangrong Wang, Meng Wang, Cuijuan Hu, Hao Zheng; Le Zhou, Yue Sun, Zhiyong Jiang, Lixin Zhang, Wenjing Su, Yungen Li, Mingsong Yu
  • Landscape Lighting Of Three Blast Furnaces And Xiuchi: Zhang Xin Studio, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, One Lighting Design Co., Ltd.(Beijing)
  • Landscape Lighting Of Three Blast Furnaces And Xiuchi Team: Xin Zhang, Xiaowei Han, Xiaobo Zhao, Baiyi Song, Dan Wang, Xuanyu Zhou, Bentian Niu, Longjun Tao
  • Indoor Signs: (SURE Design) Shuo Zhang, Xiaoyang Wang, Ya'an Chen, Peihua Liang
  • Indoor Lighting: (Lumia Lighting Design) Lei Pang, Chang Li, Jun Zhang
  • Construction Site Services: Hongtao Bo, Jiakang Zhao, Yang Zhang, Wei Gao, Zhicong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xueyun Zhu, Qi Kang, Mingxu Zhou, Mengmeng Zhao, Ziyu Ni, Tailong Pang, Xirui Tan, Kehui Li, Siwei Wang, Xiaoli Xie
  • Client: Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co.Ltd., Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co.Ltd.
  • City: Beijing
  • Country: China
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Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Exterior Photography
elevator. Image Courtesy of CCTN Design

Text description provided by the architects. Grand, small, towering, bleak, quiet, energetic, history, memory, glory and responsibility, as an architect, from the moment he stepped into this magnificent steel beast, he stepped into a grand updated play. The flowing lines on the tip of the pen, just like light dance steps under the spotlight, outline the clue of the narration of time and space.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Exterior Photography, Aerial View Photography
aerial view. Image © Dong Wang

Sited at the northwest of Shougang Park, the project is the most distinctive and stunning area with highest density of ironmaking equipment, as the starting of enterprise construction a century ago. The Park suspended production because of 2008 Summer Olympics, which remained silent until the announcement of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Nowadays, the meritorious blast furnace is open to the public in a more stunning image.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography, Aerial View Photography
top view. Image © Dong Wang

The project is connected with Shijingshan and Xiuchi in the west, the Winter Olympics Square in the north, and Shougang Avenue and the corresponding No.1 and No.2 blast furnace in the east. The underwater garage covers an area of 31,380 square meters, with a total construction area of 18,425 square meters, including 6,647 square meters for the blast furnace itself and 7,739 square meters for the auxiliary building.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography
relationship with the winter olympic plaza. Image © Dong Wang

The design focuses on preserving the collective memory exclusive to the site, removing unnecessary industrial buildings and constructing a dialogue between the blast furnace and nature, to inject new functions into the project.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Exterior Photography
before and after renovation. Image Courtesy of CCTN Design

The Xiuchi pool on the west side of the three high pressure furnace is the water storage and cooling pool for blast furnace cooling water. According to the situation, the parking garage with nearly 900 parking spaces is implanted at the bottom of the pool and the original water space is restored, which resolved the problem of parking difficulty in the renewal of industrial remains while maintaining the natural texture characteristics. With the 60m diameter of No.2 blast furnace as its scale according to the safety evacuation ring set in garage evacuation, Qunminghu Street is taken as the axis in the macro space and the alignment relationship between the entity image of No.1 and No.3 high furnaces and the mirror images of No.2 blast furnace and the evacuation ring is realized, which shows the potential spatial logic of "virtual and reality supplementary to each other" with the existing industrial heritage. The underwater exhibition hall inside the evacuation ring and the temporary exhibition hall on both sides of the corridor leading to the blast furnace are the characteristic supplements of the blast furnace exhibition.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography, Aerial View Photography
the furnace and the surrounding. Image © Dong Wang

Three affiliated pavilions A, B, and C are arranged between the blast furnace and Xiuchi, with the functions of academic lecture hall, temporary exhibition hall, souvenir sales, and supporting catering from south to north. The South Road of Xiuchi is high in the west and low in the east. The east revetment of Xiuchi presents the characteristics of a "suspended lake". The three affiliated pavilions gently sew up the height difference between the east and west revetments in the form of hilly landscape architecture, and create a hydrophilic ring road of the lake. When the main function of the blast furnace is closed, the three affiliated pavilions can be operated independently, providing rich vitality support for urban life.

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three furnaces. Image © Dong Wang

The front hall of hall D is set on the west side of the blast furnace body to connect the main hall, underwater exhibition hall and access to the 9.7m exhibition hall. Permanent exhibition hall, temporary exhibition hall and special bookstore are set up in the blast furnace body. In addition, the semi indoor blast furnace show hall on the 9.7M taphole platform is a characteristic exhibition space full of industrial atmosphere.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography, Facade
entrance of D Hall. Image © Zhi Xia

The design adopts two visiting circulations featuring nautilus shell spirals according to the prominent style of juxtaposing "industry" and "nature". Visitors can have an immersive experience here to closely appreciate the combination of nature and industry, silence and excitement.

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circulation analysis

Walking along the willow embankment into the central of Xiuchi, visitors can walk down to the evacuation space. The walls of the passageway form a sharp contrast in texture. The straight wall adopts vertical boards chiselled by manual craftsmanship without polishing. The inclined wall on the other side is made of smooth fair-faced concrete.

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exploded diagram

And the stone floor is made from self-compaction concrete combined with silicon carbide particle. Three interfaces form a striking contrast in material, gradually changing from delicateness to roughness. Together with the evacuation passageway of the underground exhibition hall, the first group of spatial device, the Wall of Honor, comes into view.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Exterior Photography, Stairs
stairs. Image © Zhi Xia

“Fire of Shougang’s Life” is the second group. Standing in the center of the water yard with a diameter of 10 meters, it has an image of long-lasting flame, embodying the thriving spirit of Shougang like a “Fire pond” in the original settlements and offering much solace to “Shougang people” who work in Shougang Group. At the early stage of design, the architects decided to use natural gas flame, but for the sake of security, it was replaced by a set of fountain with red flood lighting. The red running column expresses the same meaning of flame. At the center, the space of a “candlestick” device with a diameter of 60 cm is reserved for better installing the cylindrical lamp.  

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section sketch
Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Exterior Photography
Pantheon like space. Image © Dong Wang

As the “Fire of Life” is pointing to the furnace, the architects set the third group of spatial device – “Pillar of Honor and the Melted Iron Light Ribbon”. Starting from the water yard, the red light ribbon runs straight to the east and stops at the Pillar of Honor wrapped in red perforated plates. Inside of the pillar, a LED screen displays the names of workers in Shougang, in order to show respect to every person devoted to Shougang.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography
under-water exhibition hall. Image Courtesy of CCTN Design
Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography
Melted Iron Light Ribbon. Image © Zhi Xia

The Folding Rule Staircase in D hall is the fourth group. A long dragon-like staircase is attached to the giant cavity steel truss on the west side of the Furnace, which winds from the main hall to the main exhibition hall, to guide visitors. The floor under the staircase is paved with ironstone and grain slag, combined with truss and half-space, which resembles mine and roadway. Long and circular perforated shading panels with holes of different sizes filter day lighting into the half-space, which expands the spatial distance while giving visitors more expectations of climbing higher.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography, Stairs, Handrail, Glass
The Folding Rule Staircase in D hall. Image © Zhi Xia
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The Folding Rule Staircase in D hall. Image © Zhi Xia

The 9.7-meter-high platform is mainly used as display area, which accumulates a large number of remaining crafts in the production period. Here, three sets of swing chute are the fifth group with the greatest astonishment.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography, Beam
9.7m platform inside the furnace. Image © Dong Wang

A crescent exhibition space is set under the visiting bridge, which integrates the main display area and other functional areas. It connects the lobby of D hall on the west side. On the east side, transparent glass walls enable the space to face the furnace directly, creating a closer visual connection between display space and the furnace, core product of the museum.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Interior Photography, Stairs, Beam
elevator and stairs. Image Courtesy of CCTN Design

Taking elevator to the platform with the elevation height of 72 meters, one end of the overhead travelling crane connects the glass skywalk, which is the highest spatial installation.

Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design - Exterior Photography
72m glass trestlework. Image Courtesy of CCTN Design

No. 3 Blast-Furnace is transformed from a simple steel structure in the giant closed park into an open space welcoming the public. It’s a historical industrial architecture, a scientific base of ironmaking crafts and techniques, as well as a holy space interpreting the combination of modern art and industrial heritage.

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axonometrical sketch

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Address:Shijingshan Shougang Factory North District, Beijing, China

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Cite: "Shougang NO.3 Blast Furnace Museum / CCTN Design" 18 Jul 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/943208/shougang-three-blast-furnace-museum-cctn-design> ISSN 0719-8884

overall view. Image © Dong Wang

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