The Research On Earth-Sheltered Museum

With the rapid development of our national economy, a museum building campaign is formed around China. While in the course of museum designing there still exits an issue that over attention is paid on the exterior shape and the ecological research is neglected. As an ancient architecture type, earth-sheltered building has been drawing attention for its characteristic of energy-saving, land-saving and ecological landscape increasing. In order to make the museum buildings are more harmonious with the surrounding ecological environment and the urban planning, and to create ecotype museums with regional culture, the museum designing principles and the relative technological measures, which are suited to our present sustained development policy, are probed in this article, by researching the ecological characteristic of the earth-sheltered museum building.Firstly, this article posed the concept of earth-sheltered museum, the previous researching situation and the researching meanings. Secondly, it analyzed the inward-outward environmental factors of the museum building, and compared the differences between the earth-sheltered museums and the traditional ones. Thirdly, it researched the shape of the earth-sheltered ecological museums. Meanwhile, from the history-developing track of the ecological architecture and museum theory and practice, it posed the principles of the earth-sheltered museums building-designing, and traced back that the earth-sheltered museums had drawn experience from traditional ecological thoughts. It also discussed the relative developing tendency at present practices. Finally, by analyzing the design of"Longshanliye"Museum, It discussed the relative application of ecological design.