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Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum exhibits a private collection of Buddhist stone sculptures. The overall layout, resembling traditional Chinese gardens, allows visitors to experience natural space and artificial space alternately while going through the museum. The construction method of the framework and walls corresponds to the local craftsmanship: the inner layer is made of plain concrete composite wall with brick as mold. The gaps between the blocks are used to organize the light, the sculptures and the landscape. In this way, the whole museum blends into the surrounding scenery yet forms a distinctive atmosphere.

The visitor’s journey through the museum offers a three-dimensional immersive experience of architecture and landscape: The entrance itself comprises a series of elevated concrete platforms that move in a rhythmical and diagonal fashion, framed by dense bamboo forests and a canopied sky of trees. Through its inclined layout, the building itself remains concealed until visitors arrive at a narrow entry ramp spanning across a serene water surface.

Inverting expectations, the ramp penetrates the 2nd floor of the main museum so that one hovers over the ground floor, cavernous as if it had been excavated, displaying large-scale Buddhist figurines and wall carvings. In the same way as the landscape is experienced circuitously, visitors circulate the perimeter of a roof courtyard where light filled vitrines containing various Buddha statues punctuate the walls. One is then led down a flight of stairs to the main L-shaped exhibition hall that is subtly subdivided into four niches separated byvertical gaps of light.