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Shell Structure

The Dalian Shell Museum in Dalian, China is designed to resemble overlapping seashells. Its four floors contain 18,000 square meters of exhibition space focused on shells. The overlapping roof resembles an oversized seashell and the curved walls allow views of the landscape. From inside, the glass walls are transparent, but from outside they reflect the environment, allowing the building to blend into the sky and sea like a series of shells.

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Shell Structure

The Dalian Shell Museum in Dalian, China is designed to resemble overlapping seashells. Its four floors contain 18,000 square meters of exhibition space focused on shells. The overlapping roof resembles an oversized seashell and the curved walls allow views of the landscape. From inside, the glass walls are transparent, but from outside they reflect the environment, allowing the building to blend into the sky and sea like a series of shells.

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Dalian Shell Museum

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LOCATION:
Dalian, , China
ARCHITECT/SPECIFIER:
The Design Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture of
DUT
With four floors above ground and one floor underground, the
building contains about 18,000sqm of space. The structure is
fittingly aligned with the theme of shells and mixes a multitude of
versatile organic forms in its design.

The main exhibition building features an overlapping roof made


of QuadroClad which evokes an oversized seashell. The
material projects the natural flowing curves the architect
envisioned and also demonstrates the customizable nature of
Hunter Douglas' curved products.

The concept plays with the building's advantageous


geographical site to establish the main exhibition space
stretching out in an uphill direction. This arrangement allows
views of the beautiful landscape from the wide picture windows
inside the museum's lounge.

From inside, the glazed wall looks transparent; from outside, it


reflects the environment so effectively that the building
seamlessly glides into blue sky and green sea, appearing as a
series of "shells".
From inside, the glazed wall looks transparent; from outside, it
reflects the environment so effectively that the building
seamlessly glides into blue sky and green sea, appearing as a
series of “shells”
The outside of the building is mainly made of glass and
stainless steel, so it reflects the surrounding environment
perfectly, looking green or blue in turns. It looks transparent
from the inside and lets the natural light of the sun go inside,
but at the same time reflects it and “borrows” the color of the
sky or of the nature around it.
Thank you…

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