Research Of Architectural Heritage Exhibition Design

Architectural heritage is a material and nontransferable form of art heritage. As the society moves forward, people start to pay an increasing attention to conserving architectural heritage. Among various methods developed in this process, exhibition design of architectural heritage, is commonly neglected, though it plays a vital role in presenting the art value of architectural heritages. Therefore, the topic concerned in this essay is how to effectively arrange exhibition design as a form to realize an appropriate expose of historic architectures to the public.To conduct a fundamental research of architectural heritage exhibition design, this essay is going to illustrate the idea in four parts. The first part, including Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, introduces the background and methodology of this research, and set a specific definition of architectural heritage exhibition, the subject in this research. In addition, this part is also going to prove the relationship between architectural heritage and exhibition design; namely, historic architecture strengthens the form and enriches the content of the exhibition and meanwhile a properly designed exhibition will facilitate the conservation of architectural heritage. The second part, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, analyzes current situation of in conserving historic architectures and problems resulted from neglecting the role of architecture heritage design. After conducting several empirical case studies this essay draws the conclusion of the importance of architecture exhibition. In the third part, we are going to explore the tactics in architecture exhibition design, namely to discuss principles and methods in exhibition’s implementation. Principles include, integrity, authenticity, cultural value, feasibility, security, reversibility, anticipant, participation, humanity and innovativeness. Guided by the principles, a further study illustrates the following methods to conduct an exhibition design. Here to facilitate the study, we define two kinds of exhibitions, exhibition of the architecture and its surrounding environment, exhibition of the intangible cultural value of the architecture. As to exhibition of architecture and its surroundings, we suggest to exhibit in basis of four dimensions, to exhibit the subject’s original cultural value, to exhibit its exploitation of space by expansion, to exhibit its historical succession by reconstruction, and to exhibit its functionality by reutilization. Methods of true heritage, intangible cultural heritage exhibition contain multi-media virtual display, experiencing interaction, and live performance. The final part, Chapter 6, examines the aforementioned theory by implementing it in Dachen paint base.By studying architecture exhibition design, this essay attempts to improve current methods in conserving and presenting architecture relics, so that they could continue to realize their value. At the same time, an architecture heritage exhibition helps the public to gain a better understanding of architecture relics, strengthen the interaction between people and architecture relics, and ultimately contribute to a better conservation and inheritage of our culture.