CASE STUDY

NINGBO MUSEUM
Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials and
Construction Methods in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to
Achieve Sustainable Design Features.
BY: SOO XIAO WEN 0314130
TUTOR: MR KOH JING HAO

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to
Achieve Sustainable Design Features.
Research Questions:
Question 1: What are the similarity
between building materials used in
Vernacular Chinese Architecture and
Modern Architecture, Ningbo Museum?

Question 4: How do Ningbo Museum

achieve low cost design in term of material
used?
Question 3: How do Ningbo Museum
achieve renewable design in term of
material used?

Question 2: What are the similarity

between construction methods used in
Vernacular Chinese Architecture and
Modern Architecture, Ningbo Museum?

Question 5: How do Ningbo Museum

achieve innovative design in term of
material used?

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

VERNACULAR CHINESE
ARCHITECTURE BUILDING
MATERIAL
BAMBOO
BRICKS
MUD
TIMBER
TERRACOTTA ROOF TILES
VERNACULAR CHINESE
ARCHITECTURE
CONSTRUCTION METHODS
WA PAN TECHNIQUE
TIMBER MUD TECHNIQUE

RENEWABLE DESIGN

MODERN ARCHITECTURE
BUILDING MATERIALS
CEMENT
CERAMIC TILES
PEBBLES

LOW COST DESIGN

INNOVATIVE DESIGN

MODERN ARCHITECTURE
CONSTRUCTION METHODS
WA PAN TECHNIQUE
BAMBOO CEMENT TECHNIQUE

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

VERNACULAR CHINESE ARCHITECTURE

BUILDING MATERIALS

MODERN ARCHITECTURE
BUILDING MATERIALS

HWANG HO CIVILIZATION PIT HOUSE

NINGBO MUSEUM

Mud

Timber

Cement

Bamboo

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

VERNACULAR CHINESE ARCHITECTURE

BUILDING MATERIALS

MODERN ARCHITECTURE
BUILDING MATERIALS

FUJIAN RED BRICKS HOUSE

Red
Bricks

NINGBO MUSEUM

Terracott
a
Roof
tiles

Terracott
a
Roof
tiles

Red
Bricks

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

VERNACULAR CHINESE ARCHITECTURE

BUILDING MATERIALS

MODERN ARCHITECTURE
BUILDING MATERIALS

WA PAN TECHNIQUE

NINGBO MUSEUM

Mortar

Wa Pan
masonry

Mortar

Wa Pan
masonry

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

RENEWABLE DESIGN CONCEPT

WA PAN TECHNIQUE

Collecting materials from demolished site.

Assemble using masonry technique.
Response to scourge such as typhoons.
Allowing people to rebuild the houses faster
using the fragments.
Usually fragments include terracotta tiles,
stones and bricks.

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

LOW COST DESIGN CONCEPT

RECYCLING MATERIALS

Usage of leftover bricks, terracotta tiles and

brick block from old demolished buildings.
Usage of easily found local materials.

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

INNOVATIVE DESIGN CONCEPT

BAMBOO - CEMENT TECHNIQUE

During the Hwang Ho civilization, humans used

timber as building structure and mud to cover
the structural frame.
Use to prevent water from coming in, hide
from wild animals, hide from scourge and also
a place to rest.
Timber structural frame is replaced by
bamboo.
Mud is replaced with cement.

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

In Conclusion,

Sustainability Design is achieve through the mixture of

vernacular and modern building materials.
Wa Pan technique is a method reusing the demolition sites
materials, achieving the Renewable Design concept.
Using back Wa Pan & timber-mud technique in a modern building
is an Innovation for the modern era.

Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.

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Wang Shu, Wang Shu, in After the Crisis, ed. Josep Llus Mateo (Baden, Lars Mller Publishers, 2011): 51.
Xiamen red brick building to apply for world heritage. (n.d.).
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Combination of Vernacular and Modern Building Materials

in Ningbo Museum, Yizhou China to Achieve Sustainable Design Features.