CCTN Design from China has announced a scheme for the Museum of Regeneration of Shougang No. 3 Blast Furnace. The urban acupuncture type regeneration of this project not only propels the vigor regeneration of urban life and entire park in large scope, but also positively responds to the original social issue.

No.3 blast furnaces-bird's eye view

It's said that Shougang Group is the flag bearer of Beijing national industry, however, with the process of urbanization, Shougang has made an overall relocation to meet the necessity of adjusting the city’s overall planning and industrial structure.

According to the project description, "The Museum of Regeneration of Shougang No. 3 Blast Furnace is the first regeneration project of blast furnace and ancillary facilities in China. The design presents the strategy featuring static protection and dynamic regeneration. “Seal up the old”, that is to modestly treat the industrial remains and save the urban unique memory of this land; “Remove the excessive”, that is to prudently remove the unnecessary buildings, open the dialogue corridor between industry and nature; “weave the new”, that is to build public space, embed functions to stimulate the vigor and grow into a brand new part of urban life. This is a powerful catalysis; the static protection transforms into dynamic regeneration. Much potential is aroused from the eliminated traditional industry space due to design intervention. The discarded and obsolete “void” is reborn; diverse “full” of social life stands out vividly."

Entrance of Liudi underwater exhibition hall  in the show pool

Interior of underwater exhibition

The wall outside the underwater exhibition hall-showcase Shougang's one hundred years' history

"In the design, a parking lot is implanted at the bottom of the ancillary cooling pool of the blast furnace. In this way, it solves the general parking difficulty with industry remains. Through the underwater art exhibition hall placed together with it, people may dip into the lake to interpret the hundred year history of Shougang, to interact with the artwork in the exhibition hall, and also to have air dialogue with No.3 blast furnaces standing afar," the architects explained.

Show pool and annex building

Interior of annex building D of No.3 blast furnace

Furnace awning of No.3 blast furnaces 13.6-meter (perspective drawing)

Perspective drawing of No.3 blast furnaces 9.7-meter cast house platform

They also added that, "A large amount of the original artistic space of the blast furnace is rendered into urban exhibition hall. The four service platforms with different elevation within the furnace awning and the original cast house platform work as the core space experience site, providing shocking industry remains experience. On the other hand, the six service platforms out of the awning furnish sufficient interaction space between human and nature, generating urban activities never appeared in this piece of land. Functions, such as over sky bar, show stage, new products release, science education, social interaction and cultural stage emerge in the air. The high-altitude platform required by the process presents strong multi-dimensional stereo city meaning. Diversified urban behaviors interweave with the original architecture organically through multiple routes. As a result, industrialization eventually transforms into urbanism." 

Seal up the old

Remove the excessive

Weave the new

Industrialization transforms into urbanism

Functional analysis

General layout

Location analysis

Logic generation

Streamline analysis

Urban life

Project Facts: 

Construction site: North Part of Shougang Plant at Shijing Mountain, Beijing

Creation time: 2016.10-2017.4

Completion time: plan to be completed in early 2019 (to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Shougang)

Project scale: 49,800 sqm, where the aboveground part is 11,100 sqm, and the underground part is 38,700 sqm

Project owner: Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd.

Design & Management Team of the Owner: Wang Shizhong, Liu Hua, Jin Hongli, Xu Yan, Chai Dewen, Dong Quanxi

Design unit: CCTN Design, Shougang CCTN, Shougang International Engineering Co.,Ltd.

Plan (CCTN Design): Bo Hongtao, Liu Pengfei, Zhang Yang, Gao Wei, Fan Dandan, Kang Qi, Zhou Mingxu

Construction drawing design team:

Architecture (CCTN Design): Bo Hongtao, Zhao Jiakang, Zhang Yang, Gao Wei, Zhang Zhicong, Zhu Xueyun, Kang Qi, Li Kehui, Tan Xirui, Pang Tailong, Zhou Mingxu, Zhao Mengmeng, Ni Ziyu

Mechanical and electrical structure (Shougang International Engineering Co.,Ltd. + CCTN Design ):

-Shougang International Engineering Co., Ltd. : Li Yang, Hou Junda, Yuan Wenbing, Chen Gang, Ning Zhigang, Yin Yonggang, Ji Yongping, Zhang Xiuzhen, Chen Xilei, Li Hongfei, Yu Lifeng

-CCTN Design: Zhou Le, Guo Facheng, Wang Chao, Sun Yue, Wang Xiangrong, Wang Meng, Zheng Hao, Li Yungen, Zhang Lixin, Hu Yangshuo, Cai Xiaohan, Yu Mingsong, Su Wenjing, He Zhiyong, Du Xing

Top image: Southern facade of the No.3 blast furnace

All images © Chen He

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