The China Wood Sculpture Museum designed by MAD was recently completed in Harbin, China. This 200-meter-long museum with a silver metal skin is nestled among high-rise residential buildings, breaking the rigid urban mask and giving the community a new cultural identity.

The Harbin China Woodcarving Museum designed by MAD was completed in February 2013. At the same time, a typical Chinese new town, a high-rise residential building complex full of European style, was completed.

This 200-meter-long museum building is like a torrent of ice and snow, frozen on a narrow site in the center of the city. Inspired by the unique natural landscape of the north, the museum with a total area of ​​13,000 square meters has a chaotic and abstract appearance, blurring the boundaries between solid and liquid, looking for the "seemingly" life characteristics.

The outer skin covered with silver stainless steel plates dramatically reflects the surrounding environment and changing light on the building. A large number of solid walls ensure that the building has very low heat loss, and three cracked skylights capture the low-latitude sunlight in the north, bringing sufficient natural diffuse light to the three atrium spaces in the room.

The museum's collection includes woodcarving works with local characteristics and northern ice and snow paintings. And the architecture is also a re-interpretation of nature. In today's large-scale urban construction, the dialogue between the wood carving museum and nature shows a surreal gesture. Such surrealism may break the rigid urban mask, regain the local natural context, and give the community a new cultural identity.