MAD Erdos Museum

Kang Ba Shi City
Inner Mongolia, China

The first of seven cultural buildings in the Masterplan by MAD.

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The History and Science Museum of Erdos, located in the central zone of Erdos's new city of Kang Ba Shi, is an external display window for the city of Erdos and the science and culture of inner Mongolia.
Located several kilometers from the old city of Erdos there is nothing in sight but the Gobi desert, some plants here and there, and several hills in the distance.

The architects were inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s enormous glass dome, covering most of the city of Manhattan, and the futuristic movie where, towards the end of the world, human beings are living enclosed by a large protective glass dome, outside of which all conditions are against human's survival.

“We decided to design an irregular nucleus for the new town, a building divided into several exhibition halls, with white curvilinear walls inspired by natural lava texture, creating amazement and surprise for visitors.
The interior becomes an inner scenery completely different from the outside. A large public space with natural ventilation, where sun light penetrates the halls directly through the ceiling, makes you feel like entering a brand new world.
The museum is enwrapped in reflective metal shutters, such shutters we hope, would transform and reflect the ugliness or whatever appeals of the reality from of the surroundings.”
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The Museum, now under construction, is the first of seven cultural buildings in the Masterplan by MAD to establish a new contemporary international urban district within the central area of Kang Ba Shi city, Erdos. Representing the Mongolian environment, cultural characters, and the advanced technology these buildings form a brand new image for the whole region, contemporary and dynamic.

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Site Plan

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Site Area: 27,760 square meters
Building Area: 41,227 square meters

Architects: MAD

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