The project Zhengzhou Art Museum and Zhengzhou Archives attempts to create a complete form of art ‘exhibits’ placed in the urban scale to recall to local cultural memory and the large-scale new city center. We hope that it will be a ‘catalyst’ on the spot instead of an ‘isolated island’, and become a bridge connecting urban space and historical memory. The design traces back to the regional culture in an abstract way, and uses a powerful and complete form to fit the planning structure. The origin of the prototype explores the similarities of Chinese primitive aesthetic form from the local art of Shang and Zhou dynasty and the historical buildings in Central Plains, and creates a vague image of ‘resemblance’ between ‘resemblance and unresemblance’ .
